Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (DVD)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) Invasion of the Body Snatchers was one of the first truly successful B movie remakes. The original was done in 1956 under the same name, followed by this, and then retold in the1993 film Body Snatchers. Of the three films this is the only one you need to see. It is taken from the original Jack Finney novel and written for the screen by WD Richter. The title basically gives away the whole plot in an instant. ...
...there is little else to explain other than the methodology of this alien invasion. We see the amoeba like life forms travel across space and find there way to the Earth, where they set upon the plant life and parasitically live off them, produces beautiful flowers. Everyone knows the purpose flowers evolved; to attract things; and the foolish humans must have been really taken by these ones. The little pod flowers wait until their victim is asleep ...

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers is gripping stuff. One of the first films to espouse the theory that other beings from another planet would come to a small community and take over their bodies, it has you on the edge of your seat wondering who would be next - was the person you were talking to already possessed? Kevin McCarthy, plays the towns doctor who, on returning from a medical conference, is besieged by many of the townspeople complaining that ...
...if they're different people. However, the next day these same people all say that there's nothing wrong and, sorry, they must have imagined it. That evening, he goes to dinner and discovers his host has giant pods growing in his greenhouse.....which open to reveal replicas of all the people at dinner. The story is reveal in flashback: the doctor has been picked up from the highway where he was picked up for having gone mad: a classic scene where ...

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