jaag51 Ask yourself did Tommy Kirk need the money ? Watch for the "kept" female prisoner continually going into the cage to feed the prisoners,while they ask her if she'll open the cage for them. Meanwhile she exits the cage via a door to the house as they watch her leave each time. Bonkers !! She never leaves through the cage door they want her to open. Was this written for and by complete idiots or as a comedy ?

Woodyanders Bickering couple Norman (stolid Corveth Ousterhouse) and Leilla (pretty blonde Shirley Bonne) find themselves hopelessly lost in some remote rural region. They seek assistance from deranged redneck farmer Greely (a game performance from beefy veteran exploitation picture regular Bill Thurman), who locks them both in a cave so he can feed them to his beloved pet lethal carnivorous reptilian humanoid monster (also played by Thurman). Flatly directed by legendary Grade Z schlockmeister Larry Buchanan, with a dull, talky, uneventful script, a sluggish pace, cruddy, washed-out color cinematography by Robert B. Alcott, a tedious drawn-out flashback that's just tossed in to pad out the running time, a generic film library orchestral mush score, a simply pathetic some-poor-zhlub-in-a-lousy-rubbery-suit creature, no tension or momentum to speak of, and a spectacularly fumbled less-than-thrilling explosive conclusion, this hilariously horrendous hunk of unmitigated junk possesses all the right wrong stuff to qualify as a real four-star stinkeroonie. Former Disney kid thespian Tommy Kirk seems asleep on his feet as paleontologist hero Wayne Thomas while Annabelle MacAdams does her best with the thankless role of Greely's scared and abused housekeeper Bella. Moreover, the misty cavern setting is genuinely cool and creepy. A tasty slice of prime celluloid Velveeta cheese.

junk-monkey This movie in some weird, fever dream way does manage to build a kind of weird compulsive atmosphere - once the obnoxious Norman Sterns (Corveth Ousterhouse) has been disposed of by the monster, I have never been happier to see a bad actor being eaten alive off screen. He was dreadful.Probably the worst bit of direction in the whole movie and what really lets the whole thing down for me (ignoring the bad acting, dodgy continuity, unexplained double actions, crappy Day for Night shots, sudden lurches into slow motion in very static 'chase' sequences, and all the long tedious slow zooms in on the bubbling puddle etc. etc.) is the phenomenal decision of the director to have the housekeeper character visit the captives via a route that let her be IN THE CELL with them - while our villain gloats from the other side of an impressive steel door. A steel door which the heroes plot to blow up with dynamite it's so strong. (They just happened to have some in the Jeep. Palaeontologists carry always carry a few sticks with them.) There is no reason for the housekeeper to be in there with them. Nothing in the scripted dialogue or plot says she has to be in there and neither of the captives think that it might just possibly be a good idea to follow her out when she leaves, or bash her on the noggin and take her keys, or anything practical like that.Nope, they just sit there. Stupid people.Stupid Stupid Movie.Legally downloadable from The Internet Archive. http://www.archive.org/details/ItsAlive

vampi1960 its alive!not to be confused with Larry Cohen's;its alive about the mutant baby.is a bizarre low budget movie about a reptile loving farmer (bill Thurman)who has a tourist trap in the south with snakes and lizards.and something he keeps in a cave,a bizarre monster that looks like one of the creatures from horror of party beach minus the sausages. well some travelers happen along(tommy kirk,Shirley bonne)and stumble on the demented farmers secret.i saw this on TV very late at night as a teen and found it kind of creepy and unsettling,now i watch it and find it very funny and silly.it was made by Larry Buchanan who did many remakes of roger corman and American international pictures.this was one of the better ones.bill Thurman starred in all of Buchanan's monster films.i have to say this movie is so bad its good.the monster is hilarious.i believe this was done on a ultra low budget.5 out of 10.