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TCM presents ‘It’s Alive’ (1974), a.k.a. One of the reasons I don’t have kids (video)

May 8, 2015 By Kathy Shaidle

I’ve written about this before.

Here’s Movie Morlocks, which notes that one simple, 30-second commercial turned a $400,000 movie flop into a $30 million smash, almost four years after the film was first released, and bombed.

What’s especially weird is that the voice over guy doesn’t sound like a real movie trailer voice over guy, but more like the director’s next door neighbor.

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