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Invasion Of The Body Snatchers
on DVD (1978)
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| Starring: |
Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy, Jeff Goldblum, Veronica Cartwright, Art Hindle, Kevin McCarthy |
| Director: |
Philip Kaufman |
| Studio: |
MGM ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time: |
114 mins |
| Certificate: |
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| Collections: |
100 Horror Films |
| User collections: |
Greatest Horror Films., Horror Films To Cuddle Up To, Horror movies for real fans, Seventies Sci Fi that rocks (without being Star Wars), A Journey in True Horror Film, Some of my favourite films, Horror lovers guide to good horror, The best Horror ever, As the nights draw in |
| Genres: |
Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
| Languages: |
English |
| Dubbed: |
French, German, Italian, Spanish |
| Hearing-impaired: |
English, German |
| Subtitles: |
Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish |
| Released: |
19/06/2000
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Brief synopsis of Invasion Of The Body Snatchers
In this remake of the 1956 cult classic, terror slowly and silently strikes San Francisco as the city is mysteriously covered by alien spores that produce strangely beautiful flowers. Unbeknownst to the people, the flowers are the bearers of alien pods that make a spiderlike webbing that captures their victims as they sleep and replicates their human form. Although they still look human, the victims are transformed into emotionless creatures by a strange race of aliens out to consume and control humanity--and only four people are left to stop them. Donald Sutherland stars as Matthew Bennel, a Department of Health inspector whose close friend and coworker Elizabeth Driscoll (Brooke Adams) is overwhelmed by fear and paranoia when she begins to suspect her boyfriend, Geoffrey (Art Hindle), of no longer being human. Together, with their friends Jack (Jeff Goldblum) and Nancy (Veronica Cartwright), they are out to stop the bizarre alien invasion before they fall victim to the alien pods. Leonard Nimoy costars as Dr. David Kibner, a guru psychiatrist who might not be whom he seems. This haunting parable 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 performance as the leader of the last four humans left in San Francisco in this terrific blend of B-movie science fiction and modern terror.
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Halliwell's Film Guide
Flashy updating of the 1956 classic, mistakenly set in a big city and confusingly unravelled, with nobody for the audience to empathize with. Its nicest effect is to have Kevin McCarthy appear in a cameo.
Variety
"...[The film] not only matches the original in horrific tone and effect, but exceeds it in both conception and execution..."
Time Out
Though it lacks the awesome allegorical ambiguousness of the 1956 classic of sci-fi/political paranoia (here paid...
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