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Release Date: 17 July, 2001 Retail Price: $14.95 OUR Price: $13.46 You SAVE: $1.49! Cast: Complete Cast (12 total) |
Invasion of the Body Snatchers Reviews
Resistance Is Futile...
Yep, the pods are here and only a poodle-haired Donald Sutherland (Animal House) can save us! Brooke Adams (Shock Waves) is Elizabeth, a woman who calls on him for help after her boyfriend starts acting strange. Jeff Goldblum (The Fly, Jurassic Park) and Veronica Cartwright (Alien) are a couple who find an odd humanoid, covered in goo, in their mud-spa salon. The city of San Francisco is soon overrun by these artificial people who look just like the folks they've replaced! You see, once you fall asleep you're doomed! Leonard Nimoy is a famous psychiatrist (or is he?) who may or may not be trying to assist Elizabeth and the others. Join in on the paranoid fun as our heroes attempt to stay awake until they can somehow defeat this green-blooded menace from space! Lots of creepy-crawly moments, like the infamous man-faced dog! I can still hear it's toenails clicking on the pavement! IOTBS is a sci-fi / horror feast for the true connoisseur of dread. A must for your DVD vault...
The Good, the Slow, the Cheap
The Good are the effects. Really, this movie looks quite good for neary 30 years old. Often the effects border on what is being done now, which is an amazing feat. Sutherland gives a solid starring performance as does Brooke Adams (seen also in Shock Waves).
The Slow is the movie. This movie is longer than necessary and could have used a lot of editing. For instance: The silly conversation with Nimoy about who saw what body and when borders on an Abbott and Costello "whose on first" routine which doesn't bode well for a horror movie. Even when Sotherland shows up to destroy the "facilty" seemed like fluff. I mean the whole city has been taken over, what's the point? To show explosions? This sequence just seemed to further drag out the movie.
The Cheap is of course the price. Hard to imagine that movies would ever be this cheap with commentaries and the bells and whistles. I suppose I could assign "cheap" to the silly dog effect with the human face that looked terrible, not to mention... awful. It seemed forced also for the people (like Adams) to know "right away" that there loved ones seem different...
Still, this movie is worth your time but simply isn't a classic. In many ways this reminds me of John Carpenters "The Thing"; solid remake but eludes the greatness of true horror classics like the Exorcist or Halloween.
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