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Genres:
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Horror /
Mystery /
Sci-Fi /
Thriller
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Director:
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Philip Kaufman
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Actors:
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Don Siegel,
Lelia Goldoni,
Garry Goodrow,
Tom Dahlgren,
Tom Luddy,
Stan Ritchie,
David Fisher,
Jerry Walter,
Donald Sutherland,
Brooke Adams,
Jeff Goldblum,
Veronica Cartwright,
Leonard Nimoy,
Art Hindle,
Kevin McCarthy
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Duration:
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111 min.
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Rating:
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(7.5/10)137
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Plot Summary:
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In this remake of the 1956 cult undying, awe slowly and silently strikes San Francisco as the big apple is mysteriously covered next to alien spores that originate strangely beautiful flowers. Unbeknownst to the people, the flowers are the bearers of outsider pods that flee a spiderlike webbing that captures their victims as they snooze and replicates their human form. Although they still look human, the victims are transformed into emotionless creatures by a weird race of aliens out to consume and control humanity--and purely four people are left to stop them. Donald Sutherland stars as Matth... ew Bennel, a Department of Health inspector whose cheese-paring friend and coworker Elizabeth Driscoll (Brooke Adams) is overwhelmed next to cravenness and paranoia when she begins to imagine her boyfriend, Geoffrey (Craftiness Hindle), of no longer being human. Together, with their friends Jack (Jeff Goldblum) and Nancy (Veronica Cartwright), they are out to stop the peculiar immigrant incursion before they fall fool to the alien pods. Leonard Nimoy costars as Dr. David Kibner, a guru psychiatrist who mightiness not be whom he seems. This haunting allegory of human paranoia is a creepy glimpse of a city overrun with robotlike yuppies threatening to wipe out all of humankind. Sutherland gives a knockout demeanour as the leader of the pattern four humans left in San Francisco in this terrific blend of B-movie area fiction and modern anxiety.
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Halliwell's Film Guide is wrong
Ignore Halliwell's Film Guide. They havent a clue. Setting it in San Fransisco was a stroke of genius. Its a big city, but not so you would notice, if you have spent any time there - which suits this film very well. I mean, if it was New York no one would notice people were being taken over at all! hehehe
This film is one of those very few that manage to redo a classic and arguably improve in it. Sure, its a bit 70s hehehe but come on, what do you expect??
Check out the Transamerican Pyramid building which seems to be somewhere in the background of most external shots in this film. Oooo creepy ...
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Second version of the classic horror sci-fi yarn about humans being replaced by emotionless vegetable dopplegangers. Lacks the political context of the original, but is chilling nevertheless
Kaufman's well-judged remake of Don Siegel's 1956 classic, based on the novel 'The Body Snatchers' by Jack Finney, works a treat.
The action has been transferred from small town California to San Francisco. Donald Sutherland is Matthew Bennell, a health inspector who notices that his friends are beginning to act rather oddly. No prizes for guessing they have been turned into pod people, but soon the lines between who is who become more ambiguous.
This update may lack the profound Cold War subtext of the original, but this Invasion Of The Body Snatchers ...
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