"Why don't you go in, Miles, we've been waiting for you."
Invasion of the Body Snatchers started off as somewhat of a slow burn, but ended up being a sinister and suspenseful thriller. The story has been redone and revised several times in the years since the original novel this movie is based on was written: an unknown alien plant species has landed on earth, and replaces people as they sleep with perfect copies. Perfect, except for their complete loss of what makes them human, their emotions and souls.
The main characters are a doctor and his lady friend (played by Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter) who slowly come to understand the nature of the threat, and spend the latter part of the movie trying to stay awake and find some way, any way, out of their seemingly inevitable fate and come up with some means to keep the invasion from spreading from their California town to the world beyond.
Body Snatchers is all about paranoia and the fear of a threat that can't be comprehended, and it pulls those themes off pretty well. Besides the somewhat slow start, and a few nagging questions that never get answered (like, what happens to people's original bodies?), and the altered ending (I think if the movie would have ended at the point where it was originally supposed to, it would have had much more of an impact on the viewer), Invasion of the Body Snatchers didn't leave me with a lot to complain about.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers started off as somewhat of a slow burn, but ended up being a sinister and suspenseful thriller. The story has been redone and revised several times in the years since the original novel this movie is based on was written: an unknown alien plant species has landed on earth, and replaces people as they sleep with perfect copies. Perfect, except for their complete loss of what makes them human, their emotions and souls.
The main characters are a doctor and his lady friend (played by Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter) who slowly come to understand the nature of the threat, and spend the latter part of the movie trying to stay awake and find some way, any way, out of their seemingly inevitable fate and come up with some means to keep the invasion from spreading from their California town to the world beyond.
Body Snatchers is all about paranoia and the fear of a threat that can't be comprehended, and it pulls those themes off pretty well. Besides the somewhat slow start, and a few nagging questions that never get answered (like, what happens to people's original bodies?), and the altered ending (I think if the movie would have ended at the point where it was originally supposed to, it would have had much more of an impact on the viewer), Invasion of the Body Snatchers didn't leave me with a lot to complain about.