Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)'s comments

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Emiam

6+/10
A friends computer.

1 year 6 months ago

chunkylefunga

Nothing special, quite dated but the ending was good.

6 years 5 months ago

BeasleyOnFilm

The last scene is excellent and one of the scariest movie moments ever, but there's nothing of real interest before that.

12 years 1 month ago

BigDaddy616

Right till the last scene I was hesitating on whether should I add this to favs.
Oh boy, oh boy.

7 years 4 months ago

JosteinAsk

prefer this version

12 years 11 months ago

chris714n

Very good story.. - Recommended!

13 years 5 months ago

Liked the original much better, but that comes with my heavily biased history of classic movie watching. The haphazard filming techniques were rather jarring, that and so much of the dialog seemed like the writers thought they were making a b-movie from the fifties (maybe like an homage to the original? I'm not really sure.) An incredible amount of the written dialog didn't jive with the character's emotion. Goldblum in particular consistently looked like he was one line of dialog away from cracking up.

1 year 3 months ago

Siskoid

This thing scared me silly as a young boy and every time I've seen it since, and even looking at it more critically now, it still works. Stylistically, it's meant to unhinge you at every turn with incongruous visuals and photographic "errors". Director Philip Kaufman reveals some of his tricks on the commentary track (though other advertised extras are sadly absent). It's part of the reason why I like it better than the 50s original, the other being that it's more clearly about something that touches our lives today. It's an accepted fact that 50s paranoia movies were really about McCarthyism, but this Body Snatchers is about the urban experience. It's about isolation amid the multitude, something the director shows by simply shooting normal streets and people, which radiate creepiness and paranoia all by themselves.

6 years 3 months ago

Ilikechicken

I've never seen the original, but this seemed very ahead of its time. It felt very creepy at times.

10 years 2 months ago

ClassicLady

I liked the original better.

10 years 5 months ago

Armoreska

THAT SOUND!

10 years 7 months ago

NourNasreldin

Way darker than the original film as it is so clearly more noirish than the first one with more iconographies borrowed from the horror genre.

Also, a lot more enjoyable than the original, with the intriguing cinematography and the whole dark lighting thing going on whereas the first almost all consists of standard medium shots with a lot of scenes shot in the morning and in bright light.

The narrative is also very different and the ending here is definitely more terrifying and exciting.

Also, for those who haven't noticed, Kevin McCarthy; star of the original film, has a cameo in this version.

9 years 5 months ago

Oneironaut

I liked it. The ending scene was unexpected and shocked me.

12 years ago