Friday, 6 August 2021

ALL-TIME CLASSIC MOVIE FAVOURITES – INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1978)

“Invasion of the Body Snatchers” is a Sci-Fi Horrorscreenplay written by W.D. Richter from the novel by Jack Finney and Directed by Philip Kaufman.

 

When strange seeds drift to earth from space on the city of San Fransisco Matthew Bennell (Donald Sutherland) finds that several of his friends appear to be suffering some kind of paranoid delusion as they believe their friends or loved ones are doppelgangers.

 

The whole thing seems unlikely as the duplicates are able to answer detailed questions about their lives and then when their accusers questioned later, they themselves seem changed and laugh off their previous accusations with lame excuses.

However, after discovering mysterious pods growing and witnessing an attempted “replacement” he realises that he and his friends, Elizabeth Driscoll (Brooke Adams), Jack Bellicec (Jeff Goldblum), Nancy Bellicec (Veronica Cartwright) and Dr. David Kibner (Leonard Nimoy) must escape or suffer the same fate as the invaders increase in number.

The only problem is they don’t know for sure who has already been snatched, so they don’t know who they can trust.

 

A credible remake of the 1956 original which gives cameo to Kevin McCarthy and Don Siegel, but if that’s not enough of a reason to watch it then its worth watching just for the scene with Brooke Adams and her eyeball trick. 

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