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"It's Alive" is one of the most terrifying films I have ever seen. I see now where Steven Spielberg got his idea for Jurassic Park. He totally ripped off this movie! The acting is absolutely sublime.Unhinged bumpkin Greely (Billy Thurman) has two companions: Bella (Annabelle MacAdams), a young woman he's kidnapped, and a huge monster that lives in a cave near his rural home. The monster typically eats animal flesh, but when strangers -- a vacationing couple, Norman (Corveth Ousterhouse) and Leilla (Shirley Bonne), and paleontologist Wayne (Tommy Kirk) -- wander onto his land, Greely fixes to give his bucktoothed buddy a human treat. Unless they escape, the four abductees will be supper.The character of Greely plays a very satisfying madman. He is able to torture and subdue poor Bella with just a dead mouse! Wow...what skill! Quite a limber fellow as well. Running down the stairs laughing on more than one occasion, yet keeping his balance. I would have to compare Billy Thurman's performance, to that of James Gandolfini. Lots of parallels between Greely and Tony Soprano for sure!