Review of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) by Craig H — 09 Oct 2010
A remake of the fantastic original, moved to San Francisco (you think they would pick a place less iconoclastic than San Fran to have the pod people take over), with otherworldly gelatinous beings taking over the human population.
Donald Sutherland is Mathew Bennell, a city health inspector, who is friends with Elizabeth Driscoll (Brooke Adams), and soon they find themselves as some of the few humans aware of the ensuing takeover.
Jeff Goldblum, Veronica Cartwright, and Leonard Nimoy are here in support. Suitably creepy and bleak, this film has aged surprisingly well and is still potent (hands down better than the recent "The Invasion", too).
The special effects are more graphic (here you get to see in detail the pod people replacing you in detail), with some incidental nudity from Ms. Adams. Good stuff here. Woodchuck sez, "Check it out.
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This review of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) was written by Craig H on 09 Oct 2010.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers has generally received positive reviews.
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