One little " fun fact":the actor who jumps on the car screaming,Kevin McCarthy,was the star of the original 50s version.He enters here as he was at the end of the original,running down a highway screaming "You're next!!!"
I guess that poor doctor from the first movie had been running around like that for two decades when he appeared in the second :) Great movies, both of them.
@@adamclifton29 Yeah, I know. Two very different endings. I think, Don Siegel wanted a more gloomy ending than the producers and the movie company. Anyway, he captured the paranoia from the McCarthy period excellent.
The garbage truck(s) were gathering what remained of the original bodies, once the duplication process was completed. Leonard Nimoy's character was no more an alien than anyone else who was duplicated, and not the leader. He was part of the collective consciousness, and simply explained what was happening. The 'dog-man' came about due to the pod that duplicated the man in the park being damaged. If you have the opportunity, I'd suggest seeking out the 1958 version, to compare, and contrast (The studio tacked on a more hopeful ending in that version...).
When I was in college a girl I knew and I were big fans of this movie, and so we would greet each other at parties or just on the street by pointing and making the alien screeching sound. By the way, you probably already know but there is a 1956 version of this movie. That one is considered by some to be a "red scare" movie because parallels could be made about paranoia about aliens and paranoia about communists.
Something I forgot to mention: a number of people have already pointed out Kevin McCarthy's cameo in this film, but Don Siegel (the original movie's director) also makes an appearance as the cab driver taking them to the airport.
"The Blob" is another good example of an older original and a remake both being really good. They both have different things going for them to their benefit.
I first saw this movie on a tv screen at 16 years old while I was spending the night in the hospital waiting for a surgery scheduled early in the morning. Seeing this movie always brings me back to that night.
The glove-thing he's wearing was to give the character an unique look/make him more distinctive, Nimoy got the idea because one of his friend had a similar thing to hide some scar/burnt on his hand, from what I heard.
The twist ending is the best ending I've ever seen!! It made my jaw drop! It was on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments. Donald Sutherland, Jeff Goldblum, Leonard Nimoy, Veronica Cartwright, And Brook Adams star in this Sci Fi Horror Classic.
Leonard Nimoy's character is human the first time we encounter him, but because he is playing a very rational and fairly unemotional character, we don't know at what point he has been copied. The aliens themselves appear to be like spores, which drift through the cosmos until they land on a planet. If that planet contains compatible life, they are able to duplicate that life and so they take over. Based on what Nimoy says, it implies that once they have finished with a planet, they release themselves as spores, back into space. And so they pass from world to world, perhaps like locusts. They did make a much more recent version of this story, with Nicole Kidman & Daniel Craig, but it's not very good and has a happy ending... Boo!
There's also another version as well, "Body Snatchers" from 1993, starring Meg Tilly, Gabrielle Anwar, and features Forest Whitaker also. While not as good as the 1978 version, it definitely has its moments, and it's much better than "The Invasion", which you mentioned.
@@corvus1970 I think I've seen that one. If I remember correctly, that was set on a military base and it was implied it was the same invasion as the 1978 movie, when someone from outside brought the pods in.
That’s Veronica Cartwright playing Nancy. A year later she also played Lambert in ALIEN. She had the worst luck with extraterrestrial encounters in the late 70s. They made another version of this film in 1993 just called Body Snatchers. It takes place on an army base in rural Alabama. Very good but very different from the 1956 and 1978 versions.
I was twelve or so when I rode my bike down to the local theatre to see this film. It’s the first film I can remember constantly having to tell myself that it was a movie. I knew the original film, but this was just so much, much, much more graphically nightmarish. Lovely rubber effects by the Burman Studios in Burbank, creating all those weird hairy slimy pod creatures.
The frantic guy that bangs on their car window is actor Kevin McCarthy who was the star of the 1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers, this movie is a remake of the 1956 movie. You should also react to the 1956 movie. Cheers.
You should watch the original version of this film from 1956. The actor who stops the car and yells 'They're here already' in the 1978 version, is the main star who appeared in the 1956 version. Great reaction 👏👍. All the very best, Trevor from East London, UK.
I was 15 when this film came out. It's THE film whose ending scared the bejeezus out of me. Thanks for the reminder Jen. LOL. Jolly fine reaction nevertheless. :)
I requested this yesterday, I can't believe my luck!!!!!! Just jotting down whatever comes to mind as I watch.....the reaction to your reaction! 1.) In the book, the aliens just get up and leave! That's how it ends! I'd say this is the best ending of all the versions, most definitely. 2.) Post movie analysis: let's not forget the two great actresses in the cast: Brooke Adams and her crazy eyes, that moment is classic. And definitely, screaming as great as she did in Alien, Veronica Cartright! 3.) I've seen this movie ten thousand times, I don't ever remember noticing what you pointed out: that when Jeff Goldblum lies down, you can see his double behind him in the distance. Good eye! Thanks, Jen! 5.) I love how you get caught up with what would be the proper plan to combat this thing: he works for the health department, they're going to contact the mayor, etc etc. In the 50s version - which is great, by the way - there are definitely holes in the plot. In the 70s version, it's steeped in realism. I just watched your "American Werewolf In London" reaction, and both movies share that feeling of "what would it be REALLY like if I was bitten by a werewolf?" "What would it REALLY be like if the "body snatchers" arrived?" :D So I love that you're appreciating all the machinations of government they're trying to activate. 6.) The 50s version could be seen as being about McCarthyism or Communism. The 70s version definitely has Watergate/Vietnam era paranoia. Me, I feel like we're living in Invasion Of The Body Snatchers right now! I know the director, Philip Kaufman made that connection in an interview he gave about this movie a couple of years ago. 7.) Thanks for mentioning the great sound design!! I am SO happy you liked this movie as much as I always have! It was remade again in the early 90s, but instead of taking place in San Francisco, it takes place on an army base. The first one is in a small town, the second one in a big city, the third on an army base. That version isn't bad. Of course, they couldn't let it alone at three remakes, and it was in the fourth one, the ghastly "The Invasion", that they finally made a lousy movie out of this story! But the 1978 one is, pound for pound, the best version, the least-dated and the most powerful. I don't know if my request yesterday for this movie helped make you decide to do this one, or if it was just a coincidence, but Jen......that was a lot of fun watching it with you!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU!! :) And....don't go to sleep tonight, Jen!!! :D PS: Funny story: Me and my brother a few years ago decided to re-watch this. What we didn't know is that we had just eaten some bad food a couple of hours earlier, and the food poisoning started to take effect as the movie was playing. That sense of gloom and dread and paranoia and oppression........it was just magnified by this illness inside of us! But we didn't know any of that! We just thought it was the movie, being so good! Finally my brother asked that we turn it off! Which I agreed! Maybe a half hour later, we were retching our guts out! Never watch that movie if you're feeling sick!
I liked the book a lot better. The movie has a lot of the same problems that many book adaptations have -- the pacing was too rushed and the ending was too pat in order to tie everything up in 2 hours.
If you are a Jeff Goldblum fan I would suggest "Mr. Frost"... A great psychological thriller (Is Jeff Goldblum a mental patient, or actually Satin)... after seeing this film I knew they really missed the boat by never casting Goldblum as th Joker.
This is such a classic. I've always loved this movie. This is the first of two remakes of the original 1950's version of the film. I enjoy all three. The 1956 original Is a good film. This 1978 one is my favorite of the three and then the 1993 version is fun, but not as great as this one. It could be argued that this is a sequel to the original version and not a remake because the man who jumps on Donald Sutherland's car early on, shouting "They're coming! They're here!" is Kevin McCarthy who starred in the original 1956 film. And at the end of the original version he runs into a police station in the next town over yelling the same thing. So perhaps in this version his whole story happened right before this movie started. Interestingly the whole reason the "They're coming!" Scene was added at the end of the original movie, was that the studio watched the first cut of that film and said "Wow, this is too bleak an ending. Add something to make it a bit more hopeful." So the director (Don Siegel) filmed and added in that new ending making it slightly less depressing. This version however, obviously just went for the bleak ending with gusto.
Another Donald Sutherland horror classic is Nicolas Roeg's 1973 _Don't Look Now_ (which I've mentioned before). Also, probably the best human head on a dog's body is in Tim Burton's 1996 sci-fi parody _Mars Attacks!_ which has an incredible cast.
Back when my theater had midnight screenings we were showing the original 1956 version. Unfortunately, our events manager put up a poster for this version. When I pointed this out she looked at me and said "There are TWO versions"? I then had to point out that there were 4 versions.
I really enjoy your genuine reactions to watching scary films! I also like your natural commentary and movie summaries. Good job watching and pulling together one of my all-time favorite scary movies!!
Imo, this is the best remake ever. The original was done in 1956. The star & the director of the original both have cameos here. The guy yelling "You're next!" was played by actor Kevin McCarthy & the cab driver was played by director Don Siegel. The musical score was by Denny Zeitlin (his only score).
I was fifteen when I first saw this film back in 1978. You were right about the sound design standing out, especially when I first saw it in a movie theater setting. It would be hard to find a better sequel. The second remake from 1993 is solid, and people forget the 2007 version with Nicole Kidman. For that one, the studio, thinking it was too cerebral for modern day audiences, decided to bring in a new director and reshoot a good portion of the film. It's kind of a mess, but well worth a look.
I like looking at the people in the background in the street scenes. Back in the 70s they often didn't clear the streets and fill them with extras. Watching tv shows like Starsky & Hutch you'd always see people hanging around on the streets watching the action. It takes you out of the reality of things usually, but in Invasion of the Body Snatchers it adds to the creepiness. We see a bus full of people all staring out of the windows at the camera. They were probably thinking 'what are they filming over there' but they look like emotionless pod people in this movie.
This film is one that just generates SO many questions (in a good way) and I never really get to discuss it with anyone! Questions in no particular order: Can the pod people reproduce? Do they get sick, old or die? Do they eat or sleep? They don't feel emotions but they do seem to be panicked when Matthew is burning the pods, do they have a rudimentary sense of self-preservation? Can they feel pain? Will the pod kids grow up? If they mimic the life of the person they cloned, what if that person was researching for a cure to a disease - would they continue to research it? If a pod person is cloned of someone who can't drive a car yet, would/could they learn to drive? Is there a leader? How come David Kibner can so accurately mimic "normal" humans? So many questions!! 😃✌️
Great reaction. If I might make a suggestion for your list, assuming it's not already there, I cannot recommend George Pal's 1960 film adaptation of the classic H.G Wells novel, "The Time Machine" highly enough. It's been a favorite of mine since childhood.
I really enjoy that movie. A lovely, wistful, sometimes troubling movie. Rod Taylor is magnificent in it. Can I also recommend the other great time-travelling H.G Wells movie - the infinitely fun 'Time After Time' starring Malcolm McDowell and Mary Steenburgen. It's also set in 70's San Francisco!
One thing you might not have noticed in the sound design is that as the movie progresses background birdsound and other sounds of wildlife fall away to nothing. This obviously indicates how the world is changing, but also adds an unsettling air that even if we don't consciously notice it happening, our hindbrain will adding to the dread.
One of my favourite horror movies of all time. The original 1956 movie is also excellent and stars the actor (Kevin McCarthy) who was trying to warn Matthew and Elizabeth (5:52), in one of the greatest call-back cameos of all time. Art Hindle (Geoffrey) is a well-known Canadian actor who has been in many movies ( _Black Christmas,_ _Porky's,_ and David Cronenberg's _The Brood._ ) The ending absolutely floored me the first time I saw it. This movie is reminiscent of John Carpenter's _The Thing_ because you never can tell who has been copied until it's too late.
There are several other versions of this, the previously mentioned 50's version and The Invasion (2007), which has Veronica Cartwright as well in it. 1993's Body Snatchers is also a good version. "Checking for pods under the bed" is a common trope and early meme. It's a useful way to get across to people when someone you know says or does something completely out of character to say "You should check for pods.". The book is great, and Jack Finney has a lot of good sci-fi novels.
this is such a good movie. a few suggestions for something a bit different again, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the phantom of the paradise and Buggsy Malone
So glad you enjoyed this one Jen. It's been one of my top 10 horror films ever since I first saw it, I just love the slow build, the atmosphere, the constant sense of dread and paranoia that builds scene by scene. The shock ending is one of the few I never saw coming, and it has a great cast. The original is also excellent and well worth watching if you get time, I do think this version is better though and one of the best remakes along with The Thing & The Fly.
I’ll add the original to the watch list! Yeah this is one my favourites that I’ve watched so far. So well done and such a cool idea. I really enjoyed it, everything felt intentional and thought out. Thanks for watching!
I read book bout 30 years ago, its incredibly gripping, a real thriller. Amazes me how people can write so well seamlessly. I always thought 60/70s sci fi books were hokey, but some are really great.🙏
When you get around to watching Alien, you'll see Veronica Cartwright again. She won a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress for that film, which was released 1 year after this one.
In spite of Veronica Cartwright making it all the way to the end as a "normal person", she is the the character with the most disturbing appearance for me in everything she is ever in. She naturally has that "far off stare" and the idea that she is saved all the way to the end in this is ironic to me.
Yes the miracle of birth can be creepy and gross. It's not paranoia if everyone is out to get you. The '50s version was considered a metaphor for Communism, people were seeing agents everywhere.The 2002 film "Equilibrium" starring Christian Bale had the same concept of human life without emotions in order to keep peace and order. All forms of art were banned, no pets either and everyone was checked daily and medicated as necessary to maintain their equilibrium. Do you think that price is too high for world peace?
One thing I always thought was interesting is the choice for the last female character. Generally, horror convention would have had Elizabeth as the last woman standing, since we are introduced to her sooner, she had a larger role in the first half of the film, and she was the obvious love interest of the male protagonist. Nancy was hardly a background character, but she her role isn't one you would typically expect to be the last character to remain.
Veronica Cartwright is the little girl in The Birds by Hitchcock and is Lambert in Alien. In the spa when she pulls back the sheet she throws one arm up and hits the light making it swing back and forth. That is a nod to Hitchcock's Psycho.
One of three remakes of 1950s sci-fi/horror films that ended up surpassing the originals (the other two being The Thing & The Fly), though the 1956 original, directed by Don Siegel of Dirty Harry fame, is pretty good too. Philip Kaufman is one of the most underappreciated directors of his era: he made this along with The Right Stuff (well worth a watch if you haven't seen it) and worked with George Lucas on the original script for Raiders of the Lost Ark. For that matter, Veronica Cartwright also carved out a nice niche for herself in horror/sci-fi/creature movies, appearing in this, the original Alien, and Hitchcock's The Birds when she was a teenager; she also worked with Kaufman again on The Right Stuff, as did Jeff Goldblum.
Where you gonna go? Where you gonna run? Where you gonna hide? Nowhere because there's no one like you left. A quote from a reboot of this one. But this one is awesome. The ending is amazing.
They really did a good job of creating that feeling of hopelessness and isolation in this film. Thanks for watching! Yeah that twist at the end! I really hoped he made it!
I think this is the best version, saw it in the theater when it came out. I have the 2-DVD edition that has director commentary, a featurette called "Re-Visitors from Outer Space, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Pod", cast interviews, featuretts on special effects, sound and cinematography. Veronica Cartwright (sister of Angela) was in the original "Lost in Space", "The Children's Hour", "The Birds", "Alien", "The Witches of Eastwick" and 4 episodes of "X-Files". Other versions: original 1956 version, "Body Snatchers" with Meg Tilly (1993), "The Invasion" with Nicole Kidman (2007). Robert Heinlein wrote a similar book "The Puppet Masters" and the plot has been used in a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode. And there was the 2005 TV series "Invasion" that was planned for 5 seasons but ended after just 22 episodes.
This is one of my favourite horror films. And this version in particular. So creepy, and paranoid, and clautrophobic. I love it. Like you said, they were trying to create a world of mindless zombies. Sometimes I think they succeded XD And yes, the question of what makes you human, and what makes you YOU, is big in science fictions, and always interesting to explore. And now you see where the inspiration for the Buffy episode "Bad Eggs" came from XD. Also, Donald plays the watcher in the Buffy movie (which I still don't recommend). And now I have to say: You haven't seen Star Trek???!!!! I'd suggest you react to the Original Series, but apparently no one can because it gets blocked. You could still find a list of best episodes and watch them on your own. Just for the sake of pop culture XD Have you seen Village of the Damned? ps. I think I saw that trailing plant move behind you during the reaction...
Leonard Nimoy was not an alien before the space-flowers arrived, he provided exposition but is in no way anymore than a cog in their collective...think of them as a Borg type of alien hive collective without a Queen
That's my take on it too. But tbh a number of people have discussed whether he's a leader or a higher version. For one thing he seems to be able to mimic human behavior enough to fool everyone, whereas Geoffrey didn't seem to be capable. Also, it's not clear at what point David becomes a pod person?
I've always wondered what the future of the spore world would have been. Would they have continued with their jobs? Their hobbies? Relationships? Or, would the whole world have spent forever wandering around in silence?
"Check the basement for pods." Used to be a common saying...... time flies. There is a sequel/remake. It's worth watching for the creepy performance of Meg Tilly (?).
Loved this! Love your channel!! This movie scared the Hell out of me in the drive-in theater with my parents. Those were so great because it usually played 2 movies and you could stock up on fast food before you arrived. It was generally a new movie and then an old movie (which I would usually fall asleep in the back seat during that) I stayed awake for this one & the end still bothers me...😀👍(I think the main movie was "The Blob" remake 1988) - we luckily had a drive-in theater still running locally then, you could listen to the audio thru the car radio on a specific AM channel... Good times!!!😀👍👍❤
Hey, Jen! I'm astonished you've never heard of body-snatching as a concept or of the original film this movie is based on! The 1956 original by Don Siegel is an insanely well-known classic and the concept of pod-people became a common trope as a result that was often imitated or parodied. The white-haired man who accosted Sutherland and Adams screaming "You're next!" before being run over was Kevin McCarthy, the star of the original film! Leonard Nimoy WASN'T an alien and certainly not a mastermind. He was an early victim. He explains that it's an intelligent spore that drifts on the solar winds alighting on planets and propagating until it supplants the indigenous population. That horrific shrill scream was heard before Adams pointed out Sutherland in the greenhouse. It was first used after Sutherland bludgeoned the pod bodies in the garden and he, Adams, Cartwright and Goldblum took off being chased by a mob! Veronica Cartwright was Lambert in "Alien" a year later. This film is a superlative remake but the original 1956 version is also quite good and holds up. Fans like to consider this a sequel in their head canon.
For a change of pace, i recommend Doctor Detroit, starring Dan Ackroyd. A tale of revenge, love, lust, academia, and pimps. Hopefully that gets your curiosity. And its a comedy!
Philip Kaufman made a couple of interesting dramas, but they are not for everyone. He also made The Right Stuff, which is one of my favorite movies about astronauts and the space program. Donald Sutherland has some memorable roles. Besides the obvious one, MASH, he was in Don't Look Now, which is a very laid back creepy movie. It's almost a horror movie/art film. Besides this movie, I think Brooke Adams' best movie was Days of Heaven. That's a Terrence Malick movie, made back when his movies weren't inscrutable. This Invasion of the Body Snatchers is my favorite version. I think it has the most tension and creepy bits.
A couple of movies with similar concepts - The Puppet Masters (1994) also with Donald Sutherland and Keith David from The Thing and is based on sci-fi great Robert A. Heinlein's book, and The Faculty (1998).
Great film making by Phillip Kaufman who directed “the Wanders” (another favorite of mine) the next year also wrote Raiders of the Lost Ark Screenplay. Veronica Cartwright played Lambert in A L I E N and is a really good actress as well. She actually was the only one to survive to the end. Chalk up another one for strong female characters! This version of invasion stayed closer to the original story and kept the down beat ending that was changed in the 1956 version. It really works here and the suspense is palpable. That makes the end all that much more horrifying that it’s implied we are all doomed. Sweet!
Wow listening to someone so young describe one of my favorite movies in this detail is fantastic. Fantastic review and i enjoyed you watching the film too lol. I would love to see what you say about the best horror movie ever made Halloween, i hope you did that one av just subbed.
It was totally stunt casting to have Leonard Nimoy playing an emotionless alien in this movie considering that was basically what he did on Star Trek. The main difference being that Spock tried to help people and although he suppressed his emotions was obviously a good guy. Whereas this character was a malevolent alien bent on world domination and making everyone into drones. The director of I.O.T.B.S. (Phillip Kaufman) had obviously watched Star Trek and thought "Leonard would be perfect for this!"
loved your commentary on this movie, the thought that their bodies collapse after the takeover and then get disposed of by the replicas in those little, almost like dirty laundry bags 😱 I imagine you would find Soylent Green interesting, unless you already watched it that is? ... its quite the disturbing social commentary
Oh, one more thing, Jen. You might recognize actress Brooke Adams, who plays Elizabeth. She also played Sarah, Johnny Smith's girlfriend in The Dead Zone.
For a young Sutherland, you should see Doctor Terror's House of Horrors. You should see 'The World's End' with Simon Pegg. Leonard Nimoy, an alien? I didn't see that coming!
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, there are three adaptations, (similar to I Am Legend,) and this film is the best of the three. The 1950s’ version is very similar to this version, and the ‘90s version, Body Snatchers, is quite different, though same premise. I definitely recommend checking all three versions out, but this one is the best. *And if you haven’t seen the I Am Legend adaptations: Last Man On Earth (1964) w/ Vincent Price; Omega Man (1971) w/ Charlton Heston; I Am Legend (2007) w/ Will Smith.
@@ReelReviewsWithJen I really like that also. All the other pod people movies have NO tie ins. Just a suggestion but you might want to review the original one too at sometime.
Ha Jen, I was waiting for your reaction to the human faced dog! Very good remake for once, as I generally find that the originals tend to be better, but you can do more cool effects to what was available back in the 50's. You might have been better off watching the original first, as now you've seen this version the original might appear tame in comparison, but the ending is slightly different and probably more effective in the original. Definitely worth watching for the comparisons.
Great film. Don Siegel's 1950s original with Kevin Mccarthy and Dana Wynter is also great. The book has been remade twice again after this one in 1993's Body Snatchers (pretty good) and 2007's The Invasion with Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig (not so good). I did read the book years ago as a kid but barely remember it.
Awesome movie. Awesome shirt lol. Awesome reaction. I was on Facebook recently and seen in the gifs they had one with that dude at the end when he's pointing at that girl with mouth open. Top of GIF days not u lol. I used a few times ANF people thought it was funny. Reminds Mr of my uncle said one time he went to Wal-Mart everyone was staring and pointing at him like that lol. This bodysnatcher parts reminds me of the thing. I guess its same possess right cept they don't know hoe to act like the person like they don't get the memories or if they do they don't know hoe to possess them. Or maybe they feel like they don't nerd to hide cause they're taking over. The thing also integrated the person with them. This one the human body still there I guess and they have to get rid of it lol. And they can only get you when you're asleep. The thing can get you anytime but always when they're awake that they show lol.
I watched the original 50's version before I watched the 70's remake . I think that's why I prefer the original but opinions are divided as to which is better. The original is definitely worth a watch. Classic 50's sci fi at it's best.
A really good Donald Sutherland movie you might want to check out is The Great Train Robbery (which also came out in 1978). Donald Sutherland makes a really good team with Sean Connery in it.
Fun Fact: The screenplay for this movie was written by W.D. Richter, who would go on to direct 1984's The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Through the 8th Dimension, and also write the screenplay for John Carpenter's Big Trouble In Little China(1986), both of which I highly recommend.
The book is very good, as is the 1950's movie - but this is my favourite version. One thing to bear in mind, Nimoy isn't a leader, there are no leaders amongst the pod-people, not even any individuals. He's a victim like everyone else - they're all running on the same program only dredging up memories when it helps to act human. There's a subtle clue in the movie as to when he may have been cloned, and that's after his first appearance you see him standing next to a dumpster with that weird dusty fluff. Another subtle thing towards the end of the movie is the flaw in the species that only has survival and multiplication as an instinct. You see them all standing there at their jobs, doing nothing. Merely being there to conduct a pretence should any human come round. But there's no motivation for them to even leave that room either. Eventually this version of the pod-race will whither and die like a flower and they'll be forced to drift into space again to find another planet to infect.
There was a cheap knockoff, I think it was 2020, called "Assimilation" - Not nearly as good but the ending had the same sort of horseshoe in a boxing glove as this one did. Love your work here as always! :)
00:31 this is a remake of a black-and-white movie which is based on a novel. Have been more remakes but this is for me the best one. I think is cause the tone of the film.
No Leonard Nimoy (David) wasnt an alien from the start since he had emotions at the start, by the time he got to the bath house to see the body was the time he was changed
One little " fun fact":the actor who jumps on the car screaming,Kevin McCarthy,was the star of the original 50s version.He enters here as he was at the end of the original,running down a highway screaming "You're next!!!"
Great reference, thanks for that!
Yes, the 50s version is also an excellent movie.
I guess that poor doctor from the first movie had been running around like that for two decades when he appeared in the second :) Great movies, both of them.
@@prebenpoejensen8256 It's more of an in-joke really. The original Bodysnatchers movie ended with the threat contained and destroyed by the military
@@adamclifton29 Yeah, I know. Two very different endings. I think, Don Siegel wanted a more gloomy ending than the producers and the movie company. Anyway, he captured the paranoia from the McCarthy period excellent.
I saw this movie as an 11 year old in a movie theater when it came out. The last 30 seconds of this flick scarred me for life. I love this movie.👍👍
Yeah it was such a twist! So creepy! Thanks for watching!
Me too. I was about 8.
The garbage truck(s) were gathering what remained of the original bodies, once the duplication process was completed. Leonard Nimoy's character was no more an alien than anyone else who was duplicated, and not the leader. He was part of the collective consciousness, and simply explained what was happening. The 'dog-man' came about due to the pod that duplicated the man in the park being damaged. If you have the opportunity, I'd suggest seeking out the 1958 version, to compare, and contrast (The studio tacked on a more hopeful ending in that version...).
Consciousness? The pod people are no more than vacant houseplants.
Once I realized that what was going on with the garbage trucks was a slightly sci-fi version of the holocaust, I never slept as soundly again.
You should also watch Donald Sutherland in DON'T LOOK NOW (1973), another great thriller.
When I was in college a girl I knew and I were big fans of this movie, and so we would greet each other at parties or just on the street by pointing and making the alien screeching sound.
By the way, you probably already know but there is a 1956 version of this movie. That one is considered by some to be a "red scare" movie because parallels could be made about paranoia about aliens and paranoia about communists.
The 1978 film is a send-up of the potheaded Me Generation.
Something I forgot to mention: a number of people have already pointed out Kevin McCarthy's cameo in this film, but Don Siegel (the original movie's director) also makes an appearance as the cab driver taking them to the airport.
The Faculty is a pretty entertaining take on this theme "our high school teachers are aliens!"
I’ve seen it! I had a crush on Josh Hartnett so I watched all his movies haha
"The Blob" is another good example of an older original and a remake both being really good. They both have different things going for them to their benefit.
Ah okay good to know! I’ll add it to the watchlist, thanks for the suggestion!
Agreed
The Blob remake was written by Frank Darabont!
@@auckalukaum Wait, really? Haha that's awesome!
@@jean-paulaudette9246 He also wrote Nightmare on Elm Street 4.
I first saw this movie on a tv screen at 16 years old while I was spending the night in the hospital waiting for a surgery scheduled early in the morning. Seeing this movie always brings me back to that night.
The glove-thing he's wearing was to give the character an unique look/make him more distinctive, Nimoy got the idea because one of his friend had a similar thing to hide some scar/burnt on his hand, from what I heard.
The twist ending is the best ending I've ever seen!! It made my jaw drop! It was on Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments. Donald Sutherland, Jeff Goldblum, Leonard Nimoy, Veronica Cartwright, And Brook Adams star in this Sci Fi Horror Classic.
The thumbnail spoils it
Leonard Nimoy's character is human the first time we encounter him, but because he is playing a very rational and fairly unemotional character, we don't know at what point he has been copied.
The aliens themselves appear to be like spores, which drift through the cosmos until they land on a planet.
If that planet contains compatible life, they are able to duplicate that life and so they take over.
Based on what Nimoy says, it implies that once they have finished with a planet, they release themselves as spores, back into space.
And so they pass from world to world, perhaps like locusts.
They did make a much more recent version of this story, with Nicole Kidman & Daniel Craig, but it's not very good and has a happy ending... Boo!
There's also another version as well, "Body Snatchers" from 1993, starring Meg Tilly, Gabrielle Anwar, and features Forest Whitaker also. While not as good as the 1978 version, it definitely has its moments, and it's much better than "The Invasion", which you mentioned.
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I think I've seen that one.
If I remember correctly, that was set on a military base and it was implied it was the same invasion as the 1978 movie, when someone from outside brought the pods in.
@@simonoleary9264 It is indeed set on a military base. Good memory. :)
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I wish my memory worked this well in everyday life 🤣
The Faculty is another fun Body Snatcher film :)
That’s Veronica Cartwright playing Nancy. A year later she also played Lambert in ALIEN. She had the worst luck with extraterrestrial encounters in the late 70s.
They made another version of this film in 1993 just called Body Snatchers. It takes place on an army base in rural Alabama. Very good but very different from the 1956 and 1978 versions.
I was twelve or so when I rode my bike down to the local theatre to see this film. It’s the first film I can remember constantly having to tell myself that it was a movie. I knew the original film, but this was just so much, much, much more graphically nightmarish. Lovely rubber effects by the Burman Studios in Burbank, creating all those weird hairy slimy pod creatures.
The frantic guy that bangs on their car window is actor Kevin McCarthy who was the star of the 1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers, this movie is a remake of the 1956 movie. You should also react to the 1956 movie. Cheers.
You should watch the original version of this film from 1956. The actor who stops the car and yells 'They're here already' in the 1978 version, is the main star who appeared in the 1956 version. Great reaction 👏👍. All the very best, Trevor from East London, UK.
I was 15 when this film came out. It's THE film whose ending scared the bejeezus out of me. Thanks for the reminder Jen. LOL. Jolly fine reaction nevertheless. :)
Thank you so much! Yeah it's such a creepy story! They did a really good job of creating tension and panic with this film.
This wad the first time I ever saw Leonard Nimoy without pointy ears... It really blew my mind!!!!
Watch him sing about the pointy-eared Bilbo Baggins!
Abel Ferrara's early 90s version is very underrated and speaking of this acclaimed filmmaker you need to watch vampire horror The Addiction :-)
Agreed. "Body Snatchers" from 1993.
I requested this yesterday, I can't believe my luck!!!!!! Just jotting down whatever comes to mind as I watch.....the reaction to your reaction!
1.) In the book, the aliens just get up and leave! That's how it ends! I'd say this is the best ending of all the versions, most definitely.
2.) Post movie analysis: let's not forget the two great actresses in the cast: Brooke Adams and her crazy eyes, that moment is classic. And definitely, screaming as great as she did in Alien, Veronica Cartright!
3.) I've seen this movie ten thousand times, I don't ever remember noticing what you pointed out: that when Jeff Goldblum lies down, you can see his double behind him in the distance. Good eye! Thanks, Jen!
5.) I love how you get caught up with what would be the proper plan to combat this thing: he works for the health department, they're going to contact the mayor, etc etc. In the 50s version - which is great, by the way - there are definitely holes in the plot. In the 70s version, it's steeped in realism. I just watched your "American Werewolf In London" reaction, and both movies share that feeling of "what would it be REALLY like if I was bitten by a werewolf?" "What would it REALLY be like if the "body snatchers" arrived?" :D So I love that you're appreciating all the machinations of government they're trying to activate.
6.) The 50s version could be seen as being about McCarthyism or Communism. The 70s version definitely has Watergate/Vietnam era paranoia. Me, I feel like we're living in Invasion Of The Body Snatchers right now! I know the director, Philip Kaufman made that connection in an interview he gave about this movie a couple of years ago.
7.) Thanks for mentioning the great sound design!!
I am SO happy you liked this movie as much as I always have! It was remade again in the early 90s, but instead of taking place in San Francisco, it takes place on an army base. The first one is in a small town, the second one in a big city, the third on an army base. That version isn't bad. Of course, they couldn't let it alone at three remakes, and it was in the fourth one, the ghastly "The Invasion", that they finally made a lousy movie out of this story! But the 1978 one is, pound for pound, the best version, the least-dated and the most powerful.
I don't know if my request yesterday for this movie helped make you decide to do this one, or if it was just a coincidence, but Jen......that was a lot of fun watching it with you!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU!! :) And....don't go to sleep tonight, Jen!!! :D
PS: Funny story: Me and my brother a few years ago decided to re-watch this. What we didn't know is that we had just eaten some bad food a couple of hours earlier, and the food poisoning started to take effect as the movie was playing. That sense of gloom and dread and paranoia and oppression........it was just magnified by this illness inside of us! But we didn't know any of that! We just thought it was the movie, being so good! Finally my brother asked that we turn it off! Which I agreed! Maybe a half hour later, we were retching our guts out! Never watch that movie if you're feeling sick!
The original version from 1956 is a classic. This one is beautifully done too.
I'll add the original to the watchlist, thanks for watching!
Looking at all these old movies really makes you appreciate the practical effects.
Absolutely! So cool! Thanks for watching!
@@ReelReviewsWithJen Thanks, you're welcome.
Did you notice the flaking faces of Jack and Matthew?
Nancy was the smartest, too bad she thought Matthew could outsmart the pod people as well ): .
Donald Sutherland much later also played in "The Puppet Masters," an adaption of a Robert Heinlein novel with a very similar premise. Worth a watch!
Enjoyed the book but never saw the movie. Glad to hear it's worth a watch!
I liked the book a lot better. The movie has a lot of the same problems that many book adaptations have -- the pacing was too rushed and the ending was too pat in order to tie everything up in 2 hours.
@@heinekenswordfish Yeah, book-to-movie is like trying to take the best stuff out of a treasure chest, and fit it into a lunchbox.
If you are a Jeff Goldblum fan I would suggest "Mr. Frost"... A great psychological thriller (Is Jeff Goldblum a mental patient, or actually Satin)... after seeing this film I knew they really missed the boat by never casting Goldblum as th Joker.
This is such a classic. I've always loved this movie. This is the first of two remakes of the original 1950's version of the film. I enjoy all three. The 1956 original Is a good film. This 1978 one is my favorite of the three and then the 1993 version is fun, but not as great as this one. It could be argued that this is a sequel to the original version and not a remake because the man who jumps on Donald Sutherland's car early on, shouting "They're coming! They're here!" is Kevin McCarthy who starred in the original 1956 film. And at the end of the original version he runs into a police station in the next town over yelling the same thing. So perhaps in this version his whole story happened right before this movie started. Interestingly the whole reason the "They're coming!" Scene was added at the end of the original movie, was that the studio watched the first cut of that film and said "Wow, this is too bleak an ending. Add something to make it a bit more hopeful." So the director (Don Siegel) filmed and added in that new ending making it slightly less depressing. This version however, obviously just went for the bleak ending with gusto.
Another Donald Sutherland horror classic is Nicolas Roeg's 1973 _Don't Look Now_ (which I've mentioned before).
Also, probably the best human head on a dog's body is in Tim Burton's 1996 sci-fi parody _Mars Attacks!_ which has an incredible cast.
Back when my theater had midnight screenings we were showing the original 1956 version. Unfortunately, our events manager put up a poster for this version. When I pointed this out she looked at me and said "There are TWO versions"? I then had to point out that there were 4 versions.
I really enjoy your genuine reactions to watching scary films! I also like your natural commentary and movie summaries. Good job watching and
pulling together one of my all-time favorite scary movies!!
The scene of the dog with the guy's face scared me for YEARS. That and the Zuni doll from Trilogy of Terror.
29:27 The face I made when my Brother broke Mom's Elvis statue.
Haha! Not Elvis! The king!
Imo, this is the best remake ever.
The original was done in 1956.
The star & the director of the original
both have cameos here. The guy
yelling "You're next!" was played
by actor Kevin McCarthy
& the cab driver was played
by director Don Siegel.
The musical score was by
Denny Zeitlin (his only score).
I was fifteen when I first saw this film back in 1978. You were right about the sound design standing out, especially when I first saw it in a movie theater setting. It would be hard to find a better sequel. The second remake from 1993 is solid, and people forget the 2007 version with Nicole Kidman. For that one, the studio, thinking it was too cerebral for modern day audiences, decided to bring in a new director and reshoot a good portion of the film. It's kind of a mess, but well worth a look.
I like looking at the people in the background in the street scenes. Back in the 70s they often didn't clear the streets and fill them with extras. Watching tv shows like Starsky & Hutch you'd always see people hanging around on the streets watching the action. It takes you out of the reality of things usually, but in Invasion of the Body Snatchers it adds to the creepiness. We see a bus full of people all staring out of the windows at the camera. They were probably thinking 'what are they filming over there' but they look like emotionless pod people in this movie.
This film is one that just generates SO many questions (in a good way) and I never really get to discuss it with anyone! Questions in no particular order:
Can the pod people reproduce?
Do they get sick, old or die?
Do they eat or sleep?
They don't feel emotions but they do seem to be panicked when Matthew is burning the pods, do they have a rudimentary sense of self-preservation?
Can they feel pain?
Will the pod kids grow up?
If they mimic the life of the person they cloned, what if that person was researching for a cure to a disease - would they continue to research it?
If a pod person is cloned of someone who can't drive a car yet, would/could they learn to drive?
Is there a leader?
How come David Kibner can so accurately mimic "normal" humans?
So many questions!! 😃✌️
Great reaction. If I might make a suggestion for your list, assuming it's not already there, I cannot recommend George Pal's 1960 film adaptation of the classic H.G Wells novel, "The Time Machine" highly enough. It's been a favorite of mine since childhood.
I really enjoy that movie. A lovely, wistful, sometimes troubling movie. Rod Taylor is magnificent in it. Can I also recommend the other great time-travelling H.G Wells movie - the infinitely fun 'Time After Time' starring Malcolm McDowell and Mary Steenburgen. It's also set in 70's San Francisco!
One thing you might not have noticed in the sound design is that as the movie progresses background birdsound and other sounds of wildlife fall away to nothing. This obviously indicates how the world is changing, but also adds an unsettling air that even if we don't consciously notice it happening, our hindbrain will adding to the dread.
There are seagulls in the last scene
Basically the they die and a double is made of them...so there would be no fixing that as the human body crumples into nothing
😬😬😬 Such a bleak ending, thanks for watching!
One of my favourite horror movies of all time. The original 1956 movie is also excellent and stars the actor (Kevin McCarthy) who was trying to warn Matthew and Elizabeth (5:52), in one of the greatest call-back cameos of all time. Art Hindle (Geoffrey) is a well-known Canadian actor who has been in many movies ( _Black Christmas,_ _Porky's,_ and David Cronenberg's _The Brood._ ) The ending absolutely floored me the first time I saw it. This movie is reminiscent of John Carpenter's _The Thing_ because you never can tell who has been copied until it's too late.
It’s always fun to watch this one. One of the best opening sequences ever!
There are several other versions of this, the previously mentioned 50's version and The Invasion (2007), which has Veronica Cartwright as well in it. 1993's Body Snatchers is also a good version. "Checking for pods under the bed" is a common trope and early meme. It's a useful way to get across to people when someone you know says or does something completely out of character to say "You should check for pods.". The book is great, and Jack Finney has a lot of good sci-fi novels.
this is such a good movie. a few suggestions for something a bit different again, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the phantom of the paradise and Buggsy Malone
So glad you enjoyed this one Jen. It's been one of my top 10 horror films ever since I first saw it, I just love the slow build, the atmosphere, the constant sense of dread and paranoia that builds scene by scene. The shock ending is one of the few I never saw coming, and it has a great cast. The original is also excellent and well worth watching if you get time, I do think this version is better though and one of the best remakes along with The Thing & The Fly.
I’ll add the original to the watch list! Yeah this is one my favourites that I’ve watched so far. So well done and such a cool idea. I really enjoyed it, everything felt intentional and thought out. Thanks for watching!
I read book bout 30 years ago, its incredibly gripping, a real thriller. Amazes me how people can write so well seamlessly. I always thought 60/70s sci fi books were hokey, but some are really great.🙏
Fun fact: The priest on the swings was Robert Duvall.
The guy that was trying to warn them was the main character from the original movie.
Oh nice! That’s cool!
When you get around to watching Alien, you'll see Veronica Cartwright again. She won a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress for that film, which was released 1 year after this one.
I've seen Alien but not as a reaction video sadly, such a cool movie!
In spite of Veronica Cartwright making it all the way to the end as a "normal person", she is the the character with the most disturbing appearance for me in everything she is ever in. She naturally has that "far off stare" and the idea that she is saved all the way to the end in this is ironic to me.
So glad you did this version of Body Snatchers,its definitely the best.
Yes the miracle of birth can be creepy and gross.
It's not paranoia if everyone is out to get you. The '50s version was considered a metaphor for Communism, people were seeing agents everywhere.The 2002 film "Equilibrium" starring Christian Bale had the same concept of human life without emotions in order to keep peace and order. All forms of art were banned, no pets either and everyone was checked daily and medicated as necessary to maintain their equilibrium. Do you think that price is too high for world peace?
One thing I always thought was interesting is the choice for the last female character. Generally, horror convention would have had Elizabeth as the last woman standing, since we are introduced to her sooner, she had a larger role in the first half of the film, and she was the obvious love interest of the male protagonist. Nancy was hardly a background character, but she her role isn't one you would typically expect to be the last character to remain.
Veronica Cartwright is the little girl in The Birds by Hitchcock and is Lambert in Alien. In the spa when she pulls back the sheet she throws one arm up and hits the light making it swing back and forth. That is a nod to Hitchcock's Psycho.
One of three remakes of 1950s sci-fi/horror films that ended up surpassing the originals (the other two being The Thing & The Fly), though the 1956 original, directed by Don Siegel of Dirty Harry fame, is pretty good too.
Philip Kaufman is one of the most underappreciated directors of his era: he made this along with The Right Stuff (well worth a watch if you haven't seen it) and worked with George Lucas on the original script for Raiders of the Lost Ark.
For that matter, Veronica Cartwright also carved out a nice niche for herself in horror/sci-fi/creature movies, appearing in this, the original Alien, and Hitchcock's The Birds when she was a teenager; she also worked with Kaufman again on The Right Stuff, as did Jeff Goldblum.
Where you gonna go? Where you gonna run? Where you gonna hide? Nowhere because there's no one like you left. A quote from a reboot of this one. But this one is awesome. The ending is amazing.
They really did a good job of creating that feeling of hopelessness and isolation in this film. Thanks for watching! Yeah that twist at the end! I really hoped he made it!
I think this is the best version, saw it in the theater when it came out. I have the 2-DVD edition that has director commentary, a featurette called "Re-Visitors from Outer Space, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Pod", cast interviews, featuretts on special effects, sound and cinematography. Veronica Cartwright (sister of Angela) was in the original "Lost in Space", "The Children's Hour", "The Birds", "Alien", "The Witches of Eastwick" and 4 episodes of "X-Files".
Other versions: original 1956 version, "Body Snatchers" with Meg Tilly (1993), "The Invasion" with Nicole Kidman (2007). Robert Heinlein wrote a similar book "The Puppet Masters" and the plot has been used in a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode. And there was the 2005 TV series "Invasion" that was planned for 5 seasons but ended after just 22 episodes.
This is one of my favourite horror films. And this version in particular. So creepy, and paranoid, and clautrophobic. I love it. Like you said, they were trying to create a world of mindless zombies. Sometimes I think they succeded XD And yes, the question of what makes you human, and what makes you YOU, is big in science fictions, and always interesting to explore.
And now you see where the inspiration for the Buffy episode "Bad Eggs" came from XD. Also, Donald plays the watcher in the Buffy movie (which I still don't recommend).
And now I have to say: You haven't seen Star Trek???!!!! I'd suggest you react to the Original Series, but apparently no one can because it gets blocked. You could still find a list of best episodes and watch them on your own. Just for the sake of pop culture XD
Have you seen Village of the Damned?
ps. I think I saw that trailing plant move behind you during the reaction...
Leonard Nimoy was not an alien before the space-flowers arrived, he provided exposition but is in no way anymore than a cog in their collective...think of them as a Borg type of alien hive collective without a Queen
That's my take on it too. But tbh a number of people have discussed whether he's a leader or a higher version. For one thing he seems to be able to mimic human behavior enough to fool everyone, whereas Geoffrey didn't seem to be capable. Also, it's not clear at what point David becomes a pod person?
I've always wondered what the future of the spore world would have been. Would they have continued with their jobs? Their hobbies? Relationships?
Or, would the whole world have spent forever wandering around in silence?
"Check the basement for pods."
Used to be a common saying...... time flies.
There is a sequel/remake. It's worth watching for the creepy performance of Meg Tilly (?).
This is a remake of the original 1954 movie.
I don't think I've heard that saying before lol I'll add it to the list! Thanks for the suggestion!
Robert Duvall's pose on the swing is the same as the larva coming out of the pod.
Unlike The Thing this isn't a perfect clone. These pods can't replicate mannerisms human emotions. That is the weakness these aliens have.
Loved this! Love your channel!! This movie scared the Hell out of me in the drive-in theater with my parents. Those were so great because it usually played 2 movies and you could stock up on fast food before you arrived. It was generally a new movie and then an old movie (which I would usually fall asleep in the back seat during that) I stayed awake for this one & the end still bothers me...😀👍(I think the main movie was "The Blob" remake 1988) - we luckily had a drive-in theater still running locally then, you could listen to the audio thru the car radio on a specific AM channel... Good times!!!😀👍👍❤
This one is absolutely epic and has one the greatest endings in sci fi film history.
Hey, Jen! I'm astonished you've never heard of body-snatching as a concept or of the original film this movie is based on!
The 1956 original by Don Siegel is an insanely well-known classic and the concept of pod-people became a common trope as a result that was often imitated or parodied.
The white-haired man who accosted Sutherland and Adams screaming "You're next!" before being run over was Kevin McCarthy, the star of the original film!
Leonard Nimoy WASN'T an alien and certainly not a mastermind. He was an early victim.
He explains that it's an intelligent spore that drifts on the solar winds alighting on planets and propagating until it supplants the indigenous population.
That horrific shrill scream was heard before Adams pointed out Sutherland in the greenhouse. It was first used after Sutherland bludgeoned the pod bodies in the garden and he, Adams, Cartwright and Goldblum took off being chased by a mob!
Veronica Cartwright was Lambert in "Alien" a year later.
This film is a superlative remake but the original 1956 version is also quite good and holds up. Fans like to consider this a sequel in their head canon.
For a change of pace, i recommend Doctor Detroit, starring Dan Ackroyd. A tale of revenge, love, lust, academia, and pimps. Hopefully that gets your curiosity. And its a comedy!
LOL! I thought I was the only person who knew about this weird little gem.
@@LordVolkov such a great soundtrack too. Have the Devo song on my playlist.
Philip Kaufman made a couple of interesting dramas, but they are not for everyone. He also made The Right Stuff, which is one of my favorite movies about astronauts and the space program. Donald Sutherland has some memorable roles. Besides the obvious one, MASH, he was in Don't Look Now, which is a very laid back creepy movie. It's almost a horror movie/art film. Besides this movie, I think Brooke Adams' best movie was Days of Heaven. That's a Terrence Malick movie, made back when his movies weren't inscrutable. This Invasion of the Body Snatchers is my favorite version. I think it has the most tension and creepy bits.
The book is an homage to Heinleins The Puppet Masters which was also made into a film starring....Donald Sutherland 😀
I love this movie! I always wonder if everyone around me is really a plant.
A couple of movies with similar concepts - The Puppet Masters (1994) also with Donald Sutherland and Keith David from The Thing and is based on sci-fi great Robert A. Heinlein's book, and The Faculty (1998).
Great film making by Phillip Kaufman who directed “the Wanders” (another favorite of mine) the next year also wrote Raiders of the Lost Ark Screenplay.
Veronica Cartwright played Lambert in A L I E N and is a really good actress as well. She actually was the only one to survive to the end. Chalk up another one for strong female characters! This version of invasion stayed closer to the original story and kept the down beat ending that was changed in the 1956 version. It really works here and the suspense is palpable. That makes the end all that much more horrifying that it’s implied we are all doomed. Sweet!
....and best of all, The Right Stuff (1983).
My first horror movie as a kid, I had nightmares for a week.
I believe it! It’s so creepy, thanks for watching!
02:11 The priest on the swing is Robert Duvall
Wow listening to someone so young describe one of my favorite movies in this detail is fantastic. Fantastic review and i enjoyed you watching the film too lol. I would love to see what you say about the best horror movie ever made Halloween, i hope you did that one av just subbed.
It was totally stunt casting to have Leonard Nimoy playing an emotionless alien in this movie considering that was basically what he did on Star Trek. The main difference being that Spock tried to help people and although he suppressed his emotions was obviously a good guy. Whereas this character was a malevolent alien bent on world domination and making everyone into drones. The director of I.O.T.B.S. (Phillip Kaufman) had obviously watched Star Trek and thought "Leonard would be perfect for this!"
loved your commentary on this movie, the thought that their bodies collapse after the takeover and then get disposed of by the replicas in those little, almost like dirty laundry bags 😱
I imagine you would find Soylent Green interesting, unless you already watched it that is? ... its quite the disturbing social commentary
That guy on the swing is Big cameo. Robert Duvall of The Godfather etc.
Oh, one more thing, Jen. You might recognize actress Brooke Adams, who plays Elizabeth. She also played Sarah, Johnny Smith's girlfriend in The Dead Zone.
Yes! She looked so familiar! She reminded me of Adrienne Barbeau from The Fog.
@@ReelReviewsWithJen Really? lol I assume you recognized Veronica Cartwright, who played Jeff Goldblum's girlfriend. She was also in Alien.
For a young Sutherland, you should see Doctor Terror's House of Horrors. You should see 'The World's End' with Simon Pegg. Leonard Nimoy, an alien? I didn't see that coming!
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, there are three adaptations, (similar to I Am Legend,) and this film is the best of the three. The 1950s’ version is very similar to this version, and the ‘90s version, Body Snatchers, is quite different, though same premise. I definitely recommend checking all three versions out, but this one is the best.
*And if you haven’t seen the I Am Legend adaptations: Last Man On Earth (1964) w/ Vincent Price; Omega Man (1971) w/ Charlton Heston; I Am Legend (2007) w/ Will Smith.
THe man that is running through traffic trying to warn everyone is the original character from the 1950s movie
Oh nice! That’s awesome! I love it when they have tie ins from the original movies, thanks for watching!
@@ReelReviewsWithJen I really like that also. All the other pod people movies have NO tie ins. Just a suggestion but you might want to review the original one too at sometime.
Yeah I’ll add it to the watchlist for sure! Thanks for the suggestion!
Along with The THING, the FLY and the BLOB, this movie is one of my favorite remakes.
I need to watch The Blob, I’ve only heard good things about it. Thanks for watching!
Oh yeah, don't fall asleep Jen!!! A duplicate would be boring😔
😬😬 😴😴 I’ll try my best! Haha
Ha Jen, I was waiting for your reaction to the human faced dog! Very good remake for once, as I generally find that the originals tend to be better, but you can do more cool effects to what was available back in the 50's. You might have been better off watching the original first, as now you've seen this version the original might appear tame in comparison, but the ending is slightly different and probably more effective in the original. Definitely worth watching for the comparisons.
Great film. Don Siegel's 1950s original with Kevin Mccarthy and Dana Wynter is also great. The book has been remade twice again after this one in 1993's Body Snatchers (pretty good) and 2007's The Invasion with Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig (not so good). I did read the book years ago as a kid but barely remember it.
Awesome movie. Awesome shirt lol. Awesome reaction. I was on Facebook recently and seen in the gifs they had one with that dude at the end when he's pointing at that girl with mouth open. Top of GIF days not u lol. I used a few times ANF people thought it was funny. Reminds Mr of my uncle said one time he went to Wal-Mart everyone was staring and pointing at him like that lol. This bodysnatcher parts reminds me of the thing. I guess its same possess right cept they don't know hoe to act like the person like they don't get the memories or if they do they don't know hoe to possess them. Or maybe they feel like they don't nerd to hide cause they're taking over. The thing also integrated the person with them. This one the human body still there I guess and they have to get rid of it lol. And they can only get you when you're asleep. The thing can get you anytime but always when they're awake that they show lol.
This is a remake of the 1956 version which it was good too! Watch the 1956 original!
Great remake of a sci fi classic. One of the creepiest endings ever.
Yes it was such a good / sad ending! They were so close 😔 Thanks for watching!
I watched the original 50's version before I watched the 70's remake . I think that's why I prefer the original but opinions are divided as to which is better. The original is definitely worth a watch. Classic 50's sci fi at it's best.
the original is a sci-fi/horror masterpiece
Like father like son, Kiefer Sutherland is also in some great sci-fi. Check him out in Dark City and the original Flatliners.
Great film, Dark City.
A really good Donald Sutherland movie you might want to check out is The Great Train Robbery (which also came out in 1978). Donald Sutherland makes a really good team with Sean Connery in it.
When I was a kid the ending shock the shit out of me 😶
Fun Fact: The screenplay for this movie was written by W.D. Richter, who would go on to direct 1984's The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Through the 8th Dimension, and also write the screenplay for John Carpenter's Big Trouble In Little China(1986), both of which I highly recommend.
The book is very good, as is the 1950's movie - but this is my favourite version. One thing to bear in mind, Nimoy isn't a leader, there are no leaders amongst the pod-people, not even any individuals. He's a victim like everyone else - they're all running on the same program only dredging up memories when it helps to act human. There's a subtle clue in the movie as to when he may have been cloned, and that's after his first appearance you see him standing next to a dumpster with that weird dusty fluff. Another subtle thing towards the end of the movie is the flaw in the species that only has survival and multiplication as an instinct. You see them all standing there at their jobs, doing nothing. Merely being there to conduct a pretence should any human come round. But there's no motivation for them to even leave that room either. Eventually this version of the pod-race will whither and die like a flower and they'll be forced to drift into space again to find another planet to infect.
This was a really good film great reactions and great comments afterwards.
Thank you so much! Really appreciate it, thanks for watching!
An 70s re-imaging from the Novel ... I would suggest The Thing (1982), The Fly (1985) and The Blob (1988) for similar 50s film remakes.
There was a cheap knockoff, I think it was 2020, called "Assimilation" - Not nearly as good but the ending had the same sort of horseshoe in a boxing glove as this one did. Love your work here as always! :)
The sad part is, that's pretty much what the populatiion of San Francisco is like now.
00:31 this is a remake of a black-and-white movie which is based on a novel. Have been more remakes but this is for me the best one. I think is cause the tone of the film.
No Leonard Nimoy (David) wasnt an alien from the start since he had emotions at the start, by the time he got to the bath house to see the body was the time he was changed
Veronica Cartwright can't catch a break in Sci Fi films!
3:50 "It's a pup!"
Oh, boy...
Poor doggo 🐶
@@ReelReviewsWithJen That was THE most traumatizing thing this movie showed young me, when I saw this on TV.
I should know by now that a dogs fate in horror movies is rarely a happy one 😬 It was so unexpected! And disturbing!