Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Matthew Bennell assumes that when a friend complains of her husband's strange mood, it's a marital issue. But soon he discovers that the human race is being replaced one by one, with clones devoid of emotion.
15 September 1921, San Francisco, California, USA
15 February 1914, Seattle, Washington, USA
5 January 1931, San Diego, California, USA
20 April 1949, Bristol, England, UK
1 October 1936, New York City, New York, USA
26 March 1931, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
23 October 1936, Chicago, Illinois, USA
8 February 1949, New York City, New York, USA
4 March 1916, Pennsylvania, USA
22 September 1933, Fresno, California, USA
26 October 1912, Chicago, Illinois, USA
21 November 1935, New York City, New York, USA
22 October 1952, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
4 November 1933, Malone, New York, USA
30 March 1939, Saugus, Massachusetts, USA
21 July 1948, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
17 July 1935, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
September 28, 2015
Remakes of grand old films are to be discouraged, but director Philip Kaufman gets away with this one on style and verve.
September 28, 2015
All the tension and scariness of the original has gone and in its place is a bit of floppy old cabbage. See the Fifties version if you can.
August 05, 2014
[VIDEO ESSAY] Thematically, the film's allegory regarding viral-groupthink has plenty of wiggle-room for interpretation because it is so profoundly vague yet universal.
August 07, 2016
The 1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers remains the best of the four adaptations, but this second take is similarly noteworthy and continues to grow in stature over the years.
March 26, 2009
Invasion of the Body Snatchers validates the entire concept of remakes.
August 13, 2016
A remarkable science fiction tale that still stuns, baffles, and chills.
September 01, 2007
Set at the intersection of post-Vietnam paranoia and the myopic introspection that became hippiedom's most lasting cultural contribution, the Philip Kaufman-directed Invasion alternates social commentary with impeccably crafted scares.
October 23, 2010
Gives remakes a good name.
August 02, 2016
Emotionally stirring, visually striking and having not aged a day, "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" cries out for individuality in a skewed, nightmarish totalitarian reality. The results are as squirmily potent in 2016 as they no doubt were in 1978.
October 22, 2010
This film wants to have it both ways: to have a more urbane, more "important" scope than the original, and yet retain some of its inexpensive intimacy as well.
May 30, 2007
Ideas that Siegel knocked off in a few shots are expanded to fill entire sequences -- but they're good ideas, and can stand a little stretching.
October 17, 2016
It's interesting to observe how Kaufman and screenwriter W.D. Richter contrive to exploit and refine elements from both Finney's novel and Siegel's film in the new movie version, an unusually imaginative and adroit but also self-conscious remake.
