Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Average Rating: 8.1/10
Reviews Counted: 42
Fresh: 40 | Rotten: 2
Employing gritty camerawork and evocative sound effects, Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a powerful remake that expands upon themes and ideas only lightly explored in the original.
Average Rating: 8/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 1
Employing gritty camerawork and evocative sound effects, Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a powerful remake that expands upon themes and ideas only lightly explored in the original.
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This remake of the 1956 horror classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers moves the action from small-town USA to 1970s San Francisco and replaces at least part of the original's psychological horror with special effects. Spores rain forth, unseen, from outer space, and soon strange flowers begin popping up all over the city. After bringing one of these hybrid specimens home with her one night, biologist Elizabeth Driscoll (Brooke Adams) notices that her live-in boyfriend, Geoffrey (Art Hindle),
Dec 22, 1978 Wide
Aug 28, 2001
MGM Home Entertainment
Cast
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Donald Sutherland
Matthew Bennell -
Brooke Adams
Elizabeth Driscoll -
Leonard Nimoy
Dr. David Kibner -
Veronica Cartwright
Nancy Bellicec -
Jeff Goldblum
Jack Bellicec -
Art Hindle
Geoffrey -
Lelia Goldoni
Katherine -
Kevin McCarthy
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Maurice Argent
Chef -
Joe Bellan
Beggar -
Tom Dahlgren
Detective -
Garry Goodrow
Boccardo -
Sam Hiona
Policeman #1 -
Wood Moy
Mr. Tong -
Al Nalbandian
Rodent Man -
Jerry Walter
Restaurant Owner -
Robert Duvall
Priest on Swing (uncred... -
Jerry Garcia
Banjo Player -
Rose Kaufman
Outraged Woman -
Tom Luddy
Ted Hendley -
Don Siegel
Taxi Driver
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All Critics (42) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (45) | Rotten (2) | DVD (22)
Gives remakes a good name.
Top CriticThis 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.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers validates the entire concept of remakes.
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.
Kaufman here turns in his most Movie Brattish film, but soft-pedals on both his special effects and knowing in-jokiness in a way that puts De Palma to shame.
There's a little something extra in virtually every frame of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Philip Kaufman's dazzling remake of one of the cleverest of horror classics/
This terrific remake never lets the audience forget that it should be frightened.
Very entertaining, and despite the by now over familiar-plot, pleasantly suspenseful.
one of the great sci-fi horrorshows, a movie that gooses you with its premise, makes you laugh and jump, and ultimately leaves you with something you can't quite shake
[Philip] Kaufman's version persuasively asserts its right to life as an imaginative reflection of our time...
Siegel gave the frissons classical sharpness while Kaufman goes for baroque erudition
Indeed, Invasion of the Body Snatcher, for all its well-crafted creepshow conceits, is probably the most purposefully obtuse fear film ever.
If not quite as great as its predecessor, still a pretty damn fine genre picture.
It's not only the best of the four films based on Jack Finney's story, but also one of the best films of the 1970s.
A superior sci-fi thriller that makes even raindrops, plants and electrical cords take on sinister life.
This socially aware 70s cinematic stew artfully blends cool, shadowy noir with steamy, gooey horror.
The script by W. D. Richter relies less on clichés and stock situations that most thrillers of this type, and gives us character development so that we care what happens to these folks.
The film collapses midway -- because of unsure and sloppy direction, splintered story continuity, and the overacting of Adams, Cartwright, and others.
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Foreign Titles
- Die Körperfresser kommen (DE)
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) (UK)
Even still today, due to the amount that is left to viewers' imagination, alongside fantastic directing and acting, INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS makes an impact. For a comparison, the level of tensity in this film is just as high as J. J. Abrams's CLOVERFIELD, which was made an entire thirty years later. If you're looking from a sci-fi/horror film that isn't overly dated or cheesy, but still leaves you with a pale face and knuckles by the end, I'd rent the 1978 version of INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS. It's not quite perfect, but every minute will hold and entertain you.
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