Invasion of the Body Snatchers: Directed by Philip Kaufman. With Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Jeff Goldblum, Veronica Cartwright. When strange seeds drift to earth from space, mysterious pods begin to grow and invade San Francisco, replicating the ci
and it remains almost unfathomably influential, along with several other similarly themed stories by authors such as Robert A. Heinlein and Philip K. Dick. The notion of an alien seed that invades our planet and replaces us with pod people can mean anything, and...
^^^This would be the supporting cast and a lot of them would not be getting much screen time in this film, some will make more face in the second film like Bulma. I still like to Cast big. If they can make Tropic Thunder with Tom Cruise in Fat Suit, I can afford these actors in...
In Santa Mira, California, Dr. Miles Bennell (Kevin McCarthy) is baffled when all his patients come to him with the same complaint: their loved ones seem to have been replaced by emotionless impostors. Despite others' dismissive denials, Dr. Bennell, his
In the 1956 and 1978 adaptations, there is a clear message concerning the Cold War, with the pod people representing a foreign invasion. Then came the 1993 Body Snatchers, clearly concerned with the US military complex and how dehumanizing it was. Each movie was representative of its time, ...
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Another reason this movies works so well is simply because of the characters. Since we get to know them so well it raises the stakes when they are in danger. They are likeable and we want to see them survive and not become one of the pod people. Once that final hour hits its non-st...