{"product_id":"its-alive-year-2889","title":"It's Alive! \/ Year 2889","description":"It's Alive! \/ Year 2889 DVD VIDEO MOVIES sci-fi horror Larry Buchanan Tommy Kirk \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp class=\"proAttr productType\"\u003e\u003clabel\u003eType: \u003c\/label\u003e Movie \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"proAttr productType\"\u003e\u003clabel\u003ePlatform: \u003c\/label\u003e DVD \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"proAttr productType\"\u003e\u003clabel\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/label\u003e Retromedia Entertainment \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"proAttr productType\"\u003e\u003clabel\u003eReleased: \u003c\/label\u003e 2003 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"proAttr productType\"\u003e\u003clabel\u003eMedia: \u003c\/label\u003e DVD \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cshortdescription\u003e\u003c\/shortdescription\u003eIT'S ALIVE! \/ YEAR 2889\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTWICE THE TERROR\u003cbr\u003eTHREE TIMES THE CHEESE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOften viewed as the last stop for American International Pictures' fading stable of young stars, the Texas-based Azalea Productions, headed by director Larry Buchanan, produced some jaw-droppingly bizarre movies in the 1960s. Often shot on budgets hovering in the $30,000 range on 16mm film stock, these films provided AIP honchos Nicholson and Arkoff with a handful of much-needed color films to market to the rapidly evolving TV syndicators that had grown weary of the company's earlier black \u0026amp; white sci-fi offerings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIT'S ALIVE! is a particularly grim curio featuring Disney cast-off Tommy Kirk (who would also star in Buchanan's seminal Mars Needs Women) who had come to rest at AIP for some of the later Beach Party movies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a story featuring a roadside zookeeper (Billy Thurman) who kidnaps people to feed to his pet dinosaur-man (also played by Thurman in a tatty suit left over from Azalea's Creature of Destruction), Kirk manages to keep a straight face, obviously wishing he was somewhere else. Thurman turns in an inspired performance in his dual role. Director Buchanan has likened IT'S ALIVE! to Edgar G. Ulmer's Detour. You decide.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs this disc's co-feature, YEAR 2889 is yet another depressing exercise in Buchanan's fatalistic vision of the world around us. Here a youthful Paul Petersen (TV's The Donna Reed Show) is destined to walk that last mile to Texas where so many others had gone before (Azalea stars included John Agar, Richard Webb, Francine York and John Ashley). Boosted ably by the lovely Quinn O'Hara (Basil Rathbone's sultry daughter in Ghost in the Invisible Bikini), Petersen gamely tackles the role of a young man saddled with the task of fathering a new world after a nuclear war has decimated Texas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpecial Video Featurette:\u003cbr\u003eHangin' With Paul Petersen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnrated \/ Color \/ Approx. 3 Hours of Stone Cold Thrills\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpecial Edition \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor DVD Player (North American NTSC)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Retromedia Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"Used In Sleeve","offer_id":51328952795414,"sku":"131752","price":9.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0083\/0377\/1710\/files\/2026428165446856scan.jpg?v=1779254424","url":"https:\/\/www.neverdiemedia.com\/products\/its-alive-year-2889","provider":"NeverDieMedia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}