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| CATEGORY: | Video |
| DIRECTOR: | Don Siegel |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 05 February, 1956 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Republic Pictures |
| MPAA RATING: | Unrated |
| FEATURES: | Color, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Horror / Sci-Fi / Fantasy, Movie |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| UPC: | 017153201901 |
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Customer Reviews of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Col)
A Timely Cold War Classic What could have been merely a 1950s sci-fi thriller, made for the uncritical drive-in market, has turned out to have pretty good lasting power. For one thing, a remake was made, showing that it must have left an impression on a bunch of people the first time around. However, as is often the case, the remake was not as good as the original because special effects turned it into a gruesome spectacle. (Similarly, the original 'The Fly' and 'The Thing' are truly creepy, while their respective remakes are saturated with gut-wrenching effects.) <
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>The protagonist is a doctor in a typical small-town setting, where everyone knows one another. He begins slowly to recognize that nearly everyone around him is somehow 'different', but in a way that is hard to detect... <
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>During the Cold War, this echoed the popular fear that 'Communists' were threatening 'Our Way of Life', a fear capitalized on by Senator Joe MacCarthy and other political opportunists and many 'religious' zealots, causing much harm. The mood of the 'The Invasion of the Body Snatchers' seems to be just as apt now as then, for we are living again under the fearful shadow of those who would put some ideology or themselves above the law.
A Classic
Buy it it is a great film and a must own.
Sleep No More
THE INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS is the ultimate 1950s Cold War "Radiation is coming to get us" paranoia flick, though who it expresses its paranoia toward is an open question.
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>The original title, SLEEP NO MORE is redolent of fear and vigilance. This 1954 entry is still frightening. It was released at the outset of the Eisenhower Era and at the height of the Joseph McCarthy anti-Communist witch hunts, but it may also be seen as an anti-Stalinist piece (Josef Stalin died in 1953). Either/and/or---probably all three---the film turns its vision of representative passionless conformity into a subtle nightmare.
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>A small California town is invaded by extraterrestrial seedpods, which begin to sprout soulless human duplicates of the town's inhabitants as they sleep. The only two residents who evade this fate are the town doctor and his girlfriend (who finally succumbs). Since the soulless and conforming homunculi are virtually indistinguishable from the real people they have replaced, nobody believes the doctor who becomes a screaming and terrorized wretch, right up until the end when the truth comes to be known.
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>Inventive and very profound, this low-budget "monster movie" has been seminal in its impact. Far different from most "Creature Feature" fare, INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS ranks with THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL and FORBIDDEN PLANET as one of the greatest films of this genre.
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>The several remakes all have something to say, but none of them speaks as powerfully as does this film.