Review of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) by Stuart K — 28 Apr 2014
Directed by Philip Kaufman (The Right Stuff (1983), The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) and Henry & June (1990)), and adapted from Jack Finney's 1954 book The Body Snatchers, which became Don Siegal's 1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
This version is darker and has more body horror and blood on display, and it makes for very creepy and unsettling viewing, but it's bloody brilliant. In San Francisco, health inspector Matthre Bennell (Donald Sutherland) and his assistant Elizabeth Driscoll (Brooke Adams) notice people close to them appear to be distant and soulless.
It began when Elizabeth brought some pink flowers home, and she notices the changes in her boyfriend Geoffrey Howell (Art Hindle), Matthew suggests she see's his friend Dr. David Kibner (Leonard Nimoy) about it.
Dr. Kibner claims that Geoffrey wants out of the relationship. Then things take a sinister turn when Matthew's other friend and aspiring writer Jack Bellicec (Jeff Goldblum) and his wife Nancy (Veronica Cartwright) discover a deformed body in the mud baths they own.
.. It's a rare instance of a horror remake working better than the original, the imposing skyscrapers of San Francisco add to the eeriness of the imposing and upcoming danger coming soon. It has some good horror make-up for it's day, and it's still effective now and a dark parable on 1970's America.
This review of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) was written by Stuart K on 28 Apr 2014.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers has generally received positive reviews.
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