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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) 7.3
In San Francisco, a group of people discover the human race is being replaced one by one, with clones devoid of emotion. Director:Philip Kaufman |
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Cast
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| Donald Sutherland | ... | ||
| Brooke Adams | ... | ||
| Jeff Goldblum | ... | ||
| Veronica Cartwright | ... | ||
| Leonard Nimoy | ... | ||
| Art Hindle | ... | ||
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Lelia Goldoni | ... | |
| Kevin McCarthy | ... | ||
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Don Siegel | ... | |
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Stan Ritchie | ... | |
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Garry Goodrow | ... | |
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The first remake of the paranoid infiltration classic moves the setting for the invasion from a small town to the city of San Fransisco and starts as Matthew Bennell notices that several of his friends are complaining that their close relatives are in some way different. When questioned later they themselves seem changed as they deny everything or make lame excuses. As the invaders increase in number they become more open and Bennell, who has by now witnessed an attempted "replacement" realises that he and his friends must escape or suffer the same fate. But who can he trust to help him and who has already been snatched? Written by Mark Thompson <mrt@oasis.icl.co.uk>
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
20 December 1978 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Los usurpadores de cuerpos See more »Filming Locations:
1227 Montgomery Street, Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, California, USA See more »Box Office
Budget:
$3,500,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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Matthew Bennell: There can't be a conspiracy!
Elizabeth Driscoll: Matthew, I'm telling you something is going on here.
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As performed by the Julian Bream Consort
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Don Siegel: taxi driver. Siegel directed the original film, of which this film is a remake. See more »Goofs
When pods attack Matthew and the others at Matthew's house, four bodies form in the yard, yet Nancy isn't asleep. She's shown wide awake, and she's the one who wakes the others when she goes outside and sees the bodies growing. If the pods can only attack when the human victim is asleep, there should have only been three bodies. See more »Quotes
Elizabeth Driscoll: I keep seeing these people, all recognizing each other. Something is passing between them all, some secret. It's a conspiracy, I know it.Matthew Bennell: There can't be a conspiracy!
Elizabeth Driscoll: Matthew, I'm telling you something is going on here.
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"De La Tromba Pavin"As performed by the Julian Bream Consort
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This is a solid horror/sci-fi story with good production values. Those values include outstanding direction by Philip Kaufman, camera-work by Michael Chapman and acting. The cast of main characters was comprised of Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy, Jeff Goldblum and Veronica Cartwright. Of the group, Sutherland had the most lines and was the most impressive. All of it added up to a pretty classy film, a lot more than you'd except reading the movie title.
There was some profanity and nudity so maybe it wasn't totally classy, but the profanity was light and the nudity was a few shots of Adams' breasts.
The movie clicked because it built up the suspense beautifully, and proved you don't need a lot of violence and gore to scare the viewer. Too bad modern filmmakers of horror films can't seem to understand that. In fact the scariest thing of the movie - and it WAS scary - might have been the eerie noises emanating from the "re-born" humans.
The photography is good and I loved the facial closeups and interesting camera angles. The film is a visual treat. The original film in 1956 is a good one but it's generally conceded this re-make is superior. The star of that first film, by the way - Kevin McCarthy, makes a cameo appearance in here. That was a nice touch.