A fine remake, with nice eerie touches
“Invasion of the Body Snatchers” started life as a serialized novel by Jack Finney in Colliers magazine and was adapted for the movies four times. In the era of Covid, the plot takes on contemporary resonance, since it deals with an insidious malady that affects many, spreads rapidly, and gradually saps life out of those afflicted. The 1978 version, a major studio release featuring name actors, sets the origin of this plague in San Francisco.<br /><br />Matthew Bennell (Donald Sutherland), an inspector for San Francisco’s Department of Health, assumes that when colleague and friend Elizabeth Driscoll (Brooke Adams) expresses concern about the strange behavior of her fiancé (Art Hindle), a bit of counseling will solve the problem. Matthew convinces her to see his psychiatrist friend, Dr. David Kibner (Leonard Nimoy), who dismisses her concern as a form of temporary hysteria. Bennell begins to get worried, however, when more and more people begin insisting that friends and loved ones are not themselves. Then his old friends, health spa owners Jack Bellicec (Jeff Goldblum) and his wife Nancy (Veronica Cartwright), call Matthew in a panic, having discovered in one of their baths a half-formed body that resembles Jack. Matthew realizes that a new, frightening kind of epidemic is besieging the city and may have something to do with a previously unknown, fast-growing plant that is becoming ubiquitous throughout the city.<br /><br />As Matthew, Elizabeth, Jack, and Nancy attempt to enlist help from outside agencies, they find their efforts stymied and themselves targeted by blank-faced, emotionless people who grow in numbers every day. At one point, exhausted and stressed from avoiding detection, Bennell falls asleep as one of the plant pods duplicates him, draining his life away. He awakens just in time, horrified at the sight. Becoming separated from Jack and Nancy, Bennell and Elizabeth attempt to survive while seeking a way to fight this unknown plague.<br /><br />Director Philip Kaufman took on the task of remaking a film that has become a science fiction classic, the 1956 movie of the same name starring Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter. In Kaufman’s version, the location is a large city rather than a small town but also plays on paranoia, a device that works better in a large city. With the anonymity of a large urban environment, sudden widespread personality changes would not be noticed as quickly as in a small town where everyone knows everyone.<br /><br />The pace of the 1978 version is brisk and the special effects are disturbingly creepy. The cinematography is especially notable for the way it peers around corners, drifts down dark corridors, slides behind barriers, observes conversations with characters partially concealed, and inches almost imperceptibly into closer views. These techniques create a subtle feeling of disorientation that aptly underscores the film’s theme of alienation.<br /><br />One of the film’s set pieces takes place in the Bellicec’s spa. A series of curtains surround mud-bath tubs. A bearded man up to his neck in mud reads a book. The large room is oddly quiet, and occasionally a gap in a curtain offers a glimpse of what lies within. Suspense is created by what we anticipate, not what we actually see. Director Kaufman manipulates this scene beautifully through editing, varied camera angles, and slow tracking shots, providing a claustrophobic feel tinged with paranoia. Later scenes rely more on eerie revelations and unforeseen shifts in relationships, with tension constantly mounting.<br /><br />The cast is uniformly excellent. There’s good chemistry between Sutherland and Adams, Nimoy combines Dr. Kibner’s concern for his friends and patients with a touch of arrogance, Hindle is appropriately creepy as Geoffrey, Elizabeth’s fiance-turned-pod person, and Goldblum plays Bellicec as an outspoken Everyman whose resentment of Kibner’s media attention adds some comic relief.<br /><br />Bonus materials on the Region A Blu-ray release of “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” from Kino-Lorber include the following:<br /><br />Audio Commentary by Director Philip Kaufman<br />Audio Commentary by Author/Film Historian Steve Haberman<br />Star-Crossed in the Invasion: Interview with Actress Brooke Adams (9:07)<br />Re-Creating the Invasion: Interview with Screenwriter W.D. Richter (15:45)<br />Scoring the Invasion: Interview with Composer Danny Zeitlin (15:35)<br />Leading the Invasion: Interview with Actor Art Hindle (25:04)<br />Writing the Pod: Interview with Jack Finney Expert Jack Seabrook (11:16)<br />Re-Visitors from Outer Space, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Pod - Featurette (16:15)<br />Practical Magic: The Special Effects Pod - Featurette (4:39)<br />The Man Behind the Scream: The Sound Effects Pod - Featurette (12:48)<br />The Invasion Will Be Televised: The Cinematography Pod - Featurette (5:24)<br />Ten Radio Spots (4:56)<br />Two TV Spots (1:02)<br />Invasion of the Body Snatchers Trailer (2:16)<br />The Puppet Masters Trailer (1:45)<br />The Wanderers Trailer (1:53)<br /><br />“Invasion of the Body Snatchers” is an excellent re-make of a classic. Kaufman has retained the essential themes of alienation and paranoia as he unspools the plot of an insidious new threat rapidly sapping people of their humanity, turning them into automatons as they succumb to an essential need — sleep.
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Here is a brief synopsis of the title : From acclaimed filmmaker Philip Kaufman (The Wanderers) comes this chilling ’70s adaptation of Jack Finney’s classic novel The Body Snatchers. Filmy spores fall from space over San Francisco, and the city blossoms with beautiful new flora. People take the flowers home and, as they sleep, the plants creep over them, devouring their bodies and stealing their identities—their emotions, their uniqueness, their souls. If you notice an eerie change in someone very close to you, chances are you’re next! More than just a highly effective sci-fi thriller, Invasion of the Body Snatchers treats contemporary problems of urban paranoia and loss of individuality with intelligence and sensitivity... and ends with the single most horrifying frame in movies. Featuring a brilliant screenplay by W.D. Richter (Big Trouble in Little China), gritty camerawork by Michael Chapman (Raging Bull) and awe-inspiring special effects, Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a pulse-pounding shocker with wonderful performances by Donald Sutherland (The Puppet Masters), Brooke Adams (The Dead Zone), Leonard Nimoy (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan), Jeff Goldblum (The Fly) and Veronica Cartwright (Alien)..