Classic Friday : Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1978) 8/10

Starring : Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Jeff Goldblum, Veronica Cartwright, Leonard Nimoy
Director : Philip Kaufman
Running Time : 111 mins

Matthew Bennell (Sutherland) becomes suspicious of the unusual behaviour of some of his friends, but when he witnesses one of them being cocooned by a strange plant like creature, he realises that aliens are invading and replacing people with emotionless clones of their former selves, and now he doesn’t know who he can trust.

For a remake this was pretty good and in many ways surpasses the original, much in the same way as The Thing did four years later. It’s a shame that someone has decided to make yet another remake of this with Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig, as there is littleor no chance that it will be as atmospheric. There were a few odd moments which seemed unnecessary, but this is to be expected with Kaufman’s films, but overall this is a well structured and highly enjoyable film.

You’ll like this if you liked : The Thing