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- 1978
- PG
- United Artists
- 1 h 55 m
- 1978
- PG
- United Artists
- 1 h 55 m
Summary In San Francisco, a group of people discover the human race is being replaced one by one with clones devoid of emotion.
Directed By: Philip Kaufman
Written By: W.D. Richter, Jack Finney
- 1978
- PG
- United Artists
- 1 h 55 m
- 1978
- PG
- United Artists
- 1 h 55 m
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
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7.6
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Summary In San Francisco, a group of people discover the human race is being replaced one by one with clones devoid of emotion.
Directed By: Philip Kaufman
Written By: W.D. Richter, Jack Finney
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Top Cast
Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 15 Critic Reviews
75
80% Positive
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
20% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 15 Critic Reviews
75
80% Positive
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
20% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Undiluted pleasure and excitement. The scriptwriter, W.D. Richter, supplies some funny lines, and the director, Phil Kaufman, provides such confident professionalism that you sit back in the assurance that every spooky nuance you're catching is just what was intended.
Set at the intersection of post-Vietnam paranoia and the myopic introspection that became hippiedom's most lasting cultural contribution, the Philip Kaufman-directed Invasion alternates social commentary with impeccably crafted scares. As much an echo of Don Siegel's 1956 original as a remake, it does little to change a formula that worked fine the first time around.
User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 79 User Ratings
7.6
81% Positive
64 Ratings
64 Ratings
13% Mixed
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
6% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 79 User Ratings
7.6
81% Positive
64 Ratings
64 Ratings
13% Mixed
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
6% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
Jun 29, 2024
My favorite version. The OG is good but this is on another level entirley. Just a great sci fi horror movie!
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Director Philip Kaufman and producer Robert Solo cleverly entwine such elements as disorienting low-angle shots, an ominously pulsating soundtrack and eerie gloom with the tried-and-true plot and come up with a tight thriller. [29 Dec 1978, p.20]
By Debbie Prager
For once, a great remake, smartly executed. Great performances and a killing ending that will stay with you forever can't hurt, either.
There's not much depth to the charaterizations, but they're uncommonly vivid for a horror movie. You believe that these wildly disparate people are friends, and the growing sexual affection between Sutherland and Adams is conveyed with a nice, understated warmth. [18 Dec 1978, p.85]
The screenplay, by W. D. Richter, remains bright and lively throughout, but the plot just isn't full enough to carry a feature film. The characters are vivid, and uniformly well-played, and their pre-pod lives are fairly well established. But an hour into the film, once the menace is identified, the few remaining humans begin fleeing for their lives, and after that it's just run, run, run.
If there is a hero in the new film, it is Donald Sutherland, who gives an energetic, intelligent, emotionally rangy performance as the public health officer working on the case. There is nothing wrong, either, with Brooke Adams as his colleague and lover. But, sadly, they can not compensate for all the other mistakes in a film that lingers too long and too soberly over material that, as the original showed, must be quickly, even superficially handled, if it is to be accepted at all.
Jun 29, 2024
Great little SCI Fi Gem. Really fun, and it has a stellar cast. Scary as all hell too!
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Nov 26, 2021
+Excellent cast
+Interesting sci fi premise -Camera work and lighting have aged poorly
-Screenplay hasnt aged well either IOTBS uses a fascinating concept of the creeping takeover of the human population in san Francisco with alien human hybrids(and presumably the world!). As a piece of movie history it has aged poorly however. There is little artistic merit to be found in the cinematography although it looks clean in uhd format. Sadly the majority of the film is shot at night but the lighting is virtually non existent so there is little benefit to that choice as everyone and everything is simply swamped in darkness. Cast performances are erratic with little logical reasoning in the screenplay to really sell the sometimes bizarre reactions. The visual effects are possibly the strongest area of the film as they are practical effects and seeing them in uhd was quite intriguing especially the homeless guy face on the dog! Soundtrack performs its function with some odd moments of synth throughout no doubt very edgy back in 1978 but in 2020's feels campy. The hilariously sexist screenplay has also aged terribly but if you dont mind quirky campy sci-fi this may entertain you.
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Awards
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
• 2 Wins & 9 Nominations
Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Writers Guild of America, USA
• 1 Nomination
