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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
[1978] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Starring: Brooke Adams, Maurice Argent, Joe Bellan, Veronica Cartwright, Tom Dahlgren
Format: Closed-captioned Colour Dolby DVD-Video Letterboxed Widescreen NTSC
Released: 31 Mar 1998
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One of the most frightening films ever made - By: Bezerus Bezby, 14 Nov 2007
I recently saw the re-make of this film starring Nicole Kidman, which was not as bad as reviewers would have you believe, but in comparison to this masterpeice of horror, starring Donald Sutherland, reallly is trash.

The paranoia & suspension in the film are captured particularly well. The horror is created, not by gore & sharp shocks, but by the constant atmosphere of things going wrong & the sense of impending doom. Donald Sutherland acts particularly well & you feel his struggle to escape to the bitter end.

The final scene is probably one of the finest ever captured by film, but be warned, it will not make you feel good.

Absolutely wonderful. A cinematic masterpiece
THROW OUT YOUR POT PLANTS TODAY - By: Nevs, 19 Sep 2007
This is a great film. Very clever storyline & quite creepy as you don't know who is real & who is Veg. Donald Sutherland does himself proud as our hero, until that famous closing scene when he points at a real human survivor & does that weird screaming noise.
Big City Paranoia - By: , 20 Apr 2005
Adapted from Jack Finney's novel, 'The Body Snatchers', Philip Kaufman's 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' takes the story out of smalll town Santa Mira (the location for Finney's novel & Don Siegel's 1956 film adaptation)and into San Francisco. With little use of special effects, Kaufman's movie evokes the paranoia using techniques like shaky hand-held shots & shots through frosted glass, immediately evoking a feeling that there is something wrong in the city.

Other techniques include the use of ultra violet green lighting, suggesting the invasion of these alien plant forms (pods); using mirrors to grosely distort the actors' features, & showing shots of suits constantly running through the city streets, away from ... something (Robert Duvalll, in a cameo, plays the ominous priest sat on the swing at the beginning).

A crazed Kevin McCarthy also has a cameo, running through the city shouting 'They're here!', seemingly maintaining continuity, as if he has come out of one movie straight into the other.

Kaufman's film is equal to Siegel's ... although similar in theme & plot, they are inevitably different due to the time lapse of two decades. Both films are excellent adaptations of Finney's novel (Abel Ferrara's 1993 version 'Body Snatchers' is also acceptable).

Donald Sutherland would later star in Robert Heinlan's 'Puppet Masters' - the 1994 film adaptation of the well plotted 1950's novel.

The disc includes an informative director's commentary & original theatrical trailer - the disc is subtitled.

Recommended:
'The Body Snatchers' by Jack Finney (1950's novel)
'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' (1956)
'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' (1978)
'Body Snatchers' (1993)
'The Puppet Masters' (1950's novel)
'Puppet Masters' (1994)

Mother should have told you itýs not polite to point? - By: B. Chandler, 11 Apr 2005
What if your Uncle, brother, sister, aunt, weren't? Something strange seems to be happening in the area & it is up to the Donald Sutherland to discover. Only he discovers more than he counted on & now a hand full of people must run for their lives.

This is a remake of the Classic 50's sci-fi "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1956) & it is scarier. In the older version too many known stars did not distract you. In this version you know everyone but by the time the action starts you will just see the characters. See Donald Sutherland again as the bad guy in Eye of the Needle (1981).

You have the feeling that at any time you will become a pod-estrian. Worse yet your loved one may become a podiatrist.

I left my what in San Francisco?

If you wonder where the story originated; it was the novel "The Body Snatchers" by Jack Finney

An excellent example of a dying genre - By: , 13 Apr 2002
For those of you who may be under the impression that this is a watery horror flick with as much plot & shock factor as Fright Night then you will find that you are pleasently supprised.

The story is unoriginal & (frankly) a little cliche - aliens escape their dying planet by invading the earth disguised as little flowers that then get picked by people whose body's then get duplicted when they are asleep by the plants, thus the aliens take over the earth. Sounds ridiculous? It is.

What makes this special is the fine acting by the fine cast, Donald Sutherland is on superb form as ever & the underlying sexual relationship (trust me, it's there) with Brooke Adams makes this a winning formular. Coupled with the at times humourous relationship between Jeff Goldblum & Leonard Nimoy, this is a joy to alll cast addicts.

Even better than this however are the cinemtic features. Camera angles & lighting synonomous with the 70s film are here en force adding to the general tention of the film. This along with a fantastic musical score makes this picture reallly pack a punch.

If you want to be shocked, watch Psycho, if you want to be scared, watch The Blair Witch Project. If you want to see something that will entertain when tired, cheer you when glum & not disapoint when looking between the lines then you cannot go far wrong with this. Fantastic.