It's Alive III: Island Of The Alive (1987) **1/2 [Killer Babies Triple Feature Pt. 3]

For the third and final film in the It's Alive trilogy, 1987's It's Alive III: Island Of The Alive, Larry Cohen takes the action to a tropical island to show his audience how these mutant babies turn out as adults. The creatures ended up on this island by decree of a judge presiding over a court case to decide their fate. Michael Moriarty and Karen Black play the parents of one of the mutant babies. When we're the on the island I got a very Predator vibe (interesting as that film was released just two months after this one), as we see people picked off, occasionally from (as in the other two films) the monsters' perspective (they see double). The action takes place in multiple locations (from Florida to the island to Cuba back to Florida) and while we're treated to even gorier f/x than the first two films and Moriarty's typically "out-there" style of acting, the script feels pretty scattershot and I'm not that big of a fan of the monsters as adults (Rick Baker did not return for f/x).

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