Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) First Time Watching! Movie Reaction!

[@Corn_Pone_Flicks]

A lot of the street scenes where everyone is looking at the protagonists were shot wild, with a cameraman and the actors just running around in public, because when you do that, everyone else stares at you. I first saw this at about twelve and absolutely couldn't sleep afterwards. That dog with the man's head jarred something deep in my brain in a way that I've rarely felt with any other movie.

[@michaelbuhl4250]

35:26 When I was in college a girl I knew and I used to greet each other by screaming and pointing the same way Matthew does at the end of the movie. We would do it at parties or just if we encountered each other on the street.

[@franciscoojeda8986]

Veronica Cartwright was Lambert from 'Alien' and the little girl, Cathy Brenner, in 'The Birds'. The man who ran in front of the car and was run over later was Kevin McCarthy, who did a similar scene (warning people in the cars of the invasion) in the 1956 original movie version.

[@johnmoreland6089]

The little Brenner girl's name was Alice. Or maybe Lois. 😂

[@vincegamer]

Cartwright is still acting. She was in 2 episodes of Gotham Knights this year and has 3 movies in production. Pretty good for a child actor from the 50s

[@mst3KGf]

Kevin McCarthy's scene also lends the argument that this isn't a remake, this is a sequel to the 1956 film with the pods spreading from small towns to the big cities and poor McCarthy still trying to stop them.

[@hulkhatepunybanner]

*It's Veronica's eyes. They say, "Scare me, please."*

[@dabe1971]

Her sister, Angela, played Brigitta one of the von Trapp children in 'The Sound of Music'. She also played Penny in the TV Series 'Lost in Space'.

[@mikeduplessis8069]

Veronica Cartwright was in both 'The Birds' (as a child) and 'Alien', and 54 other films. She's still working.

[@LarryFleetwood8675]

She was reunited with Tom Skerritt from Alien in Wisdom (1986), star Emilio Estevez' directorial debut.

[@porflepopnecker4376]

She was also memorable in her appearance on "The X-Files." A true genre icon.

[@Johnny_Socko]

IMO her finest performance was in "The Witches of Eastwick". A movie starring some of the heaviest hitters of all time, yet it was straight-up *stolen* by Veronica Cartwright.

[@handsomestik]

One of the greatest remakes ever. Up there with The Thing

[@Bionicjulius]

More people should react to this. The ending gave me (age 9) nightmares for days. Great job guys.

[@vilefly]

Yup. 70s broadcast tv was scary at times.......and our parents let us watch it! It made us tougher, I think. At least, we still had saturday morning cartoons to watch, with science fiction theater afternoon. Unless one of our parents made us watch Wide World of Sports instead.

[@Andy2481]

Indeed. I was 10 when I first watched this in the early 90s and it scared the sh'@@ outta me. Really freaked me out as a kid and mainly because of the ending. And defo more people should react to this. TBR Schmitt also did The Burbs ... another movie I loved and watch at a kid around the same time but yet no one seems to react to that either. Thats an under rated movie to. But anyway this is still the best IOTBS version. Just like The Thing 1982 is the best version of the 3 made.

[@kenpinaroc195]

I saw this in 1978 when I was 11 years old and I'm from San Francisco. Nightmares for days afterward! 😫

[@michaelceraso1977]

yea Its a good remake But I do like the OG from 1956, maybe cause its a simple plot , and Im shocked that Daniel & samantha thought Brooke Adams was the girl in Raiders ( Karen Allen). she does have a similar voice but no freckles and a nicer smile.

[@paulcarfantan6688]

@@vilefly Wide World of Sports, ah yes, I believe on Sunday afternoons with Howard Cossell. They used to show Harlem Globe Trotters game from time to time. Good memories.

[@Cadinho93]

The man being chased who throws himself across the windscreen shouting, "They're coming!" is Kevin McCarthy. He's the star of the original 1956 version. Also, the true horror of this movie is that there is literally no hope. There is no way that humanity can prevail, it's just a matter of time. Awesome movie.

[@tbjfsu]

I'm glad I read beyond the first sentence.

[@flerbus]

The aliens kinda do act like @user-gt2uf8cq9y

[@kenpinaroc195]

​Yes, good one!!

[@paulcarfantan6688]

@@user-gt2uf8cq9y Actually I was expecting to see Nancy Pelosi as one of the aliens being in San Francisco and all. Kind of disappointed.

[@venividiarrevederci4461]

Not only that, but the scene itself is an homage to the end of the original, where McCarthy also runs into traffic, pounds on passing cars, and shouts basically the exact same lines verbatim (might actually be the same exact lines, actually, I'm not sure). But yeah, that scene is literally how the original ends.

[@playedout148]

70s movies can almost always get me because there was such a move towards gritty realism. No matter how strange the subject matter, it could often be made to feel "real".

[@TTM9691]

Completely agree 10000%. Hard boiled realism. Naturalistic acting. Fantastic photography. The naturalistic acting in these movies is virtually a practical effect unto itself. It didn't matter if it was "All The President's Men", "Annie Hall", "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest", "Chinatown" or horror movies like "Invasion Of The Body Snatchers" and "The Exorcist", they approached the subject matter equally, trying to capture the reality of it. Amazing period that still inspires. "Killers Of The Flower Moon" comes out this week and will pretty much be the official end of that great era, as far as I can see!

[@ejbarbs7873]

@@TTM9691I was born 20 years after it happened but I think we culturally peaked in the 70s. The movies and music are just so good, not to say nothing good came after but top 5 movies or songs of the 70s smash any other decade.

[@TTM9691]

​@@ejbarbs7873 Loved your comment, EJ Barbs, I couldn't agree more. The only thing I'd "tweak" is I'd say the 60s and 70s, the 70s is definitely a continuation of the momentum of the 60s. I'd say the music of the 60s was the peak, but it was such a high peak (The Beatles, Dylan, Hendrix, et al) that the 70s were still way above everything else and an exciting time because everyone was either expanding on something started in the 60s, or else they were reacting against it! And coming up with something interesting in its own right! Movies - partly inspired by the youth culture that had manifested itself in the music scene - started towards their peak in the late 60s with Graduate, Bonnie & Clyde, 2001, Midnight Cowboy, etc but that movement definitely peaked in the 70s, definitely in agreement there. The list of groundbreaking 70s movies that punch you in the gut, blow your mind or stay with you forever is awe-inspiring.

[@ejbarbs7873]

@@TTM9691 I agree the 60s were absolutely essential to the greatness continued in the 70s

[@szeltovivarsydroxan9944]

Yes, it's mostly also the acting. It's not like "Hey, I'm actor man, chewing the scene", but they talk like real people, also over each other. I distinctly connect that with 70's cinema.

[@konowd]

The original 1956 Body Snatchers is still a very strong sci fi classic that holds up very well after all these years

[@stsolomon618]

One of the greatest remakes in cinema history. The original director of the 50s film played the cab driver. Also, Phillip Kaufman, the director of the 1978 film, helped George Lucas with the Indiana Jones character.

[@crobarus]

Yeah , but the original was better. Just an opinion . 1950's Sci Fi version is a classic. Much better ending

[@SierraSierraFoxtrot]

The 1993 remake is not bad, not so meme-able though.

[@mst3KGf]

@@SierraSierraFoxtrot "Where're you gonna go? Where're you gonna run? Where're you gonna hide? Nowhere. Because there is no one like you...left."

[@NoLegalPlunder]

Donald Sutherland is in many great movies. I can’t recommend Kelly’s Heroes strongly enough. His character is unforgettable.

[@eddhardy1054]

Yeah his character is unforgettable because he's in a film set in World War 2 but he appears to be playing a hippy from the 1960s. A far better choice would be Don't Look Now or Klute.

[@terryhughes7349]

The original beatnik hippie. Not widely known but there along with Heller and the rest.

[@NoLegalPlunder]

@@eddhardy1054 Ouch. That's not fair. He's an oddball character that is like a hippie. Big deal. I do like Klute. I always thought Don't Look Now was a bit too pretentious (though it does look nice). I think Eye Of The Needle is more enjoyable.

[@carlosspeicywiener7018]

Woof WOOF WOOF! That's my other dog impersonation.

[@csmelen]

Another great movie starring Donald Sutherland is Ordinary People (1980). Winner of four Academy Awards.

[@renemies78]

The original 1956 version is actually really damn good in it's own right. I love both. I'm sure others have pointed out that the old man screaming into the car at the beginning was Kevin McCarthy from the original 50s movie. Great reaction and Daniel got me at the end too. Hahaha.

[@TTM9691]

Absolutely damn good version, definitely worth watching. And the third one is also good, since he expressed an interest in seeing more of this kind of story. First one is in a small town, second in a city, third on a military base. Each presents its own set of problems. And all three movies were made by young up-and-coming directors. The fourth version is terrible and completely uncalled for, just a Hollywood glitz job.

[@teotosone2]

and the taxi driver at 25:57 is don siegel the director of the original

[@mikefoster6018]

Yeah the 50s version was great too - and I like how often the heroes try to break the tension with a scotch or whiskey! The only slightly disengaging bit in that film, for me, is that way an important person almost instantly changes into an alien seemingly with no pod around and no sleep (which makes no sense yet was important for the plot).

[@LarryFleetwood8675]

Whisky always works in movies, especially if it's J&B... 🥃

[@ryankieth1675]

The ending of that movie traumatized me as a child. I still think it’s one of the most terrifying scenes ever.

[@justinplayfair4638]

Congrats on being introduced to the beautiful and talented Brooke Adams!

[@NoLegalPlunder]

The cab driver near the end is Don Siegel, the guy who directed the first version of this movie. He also did the first Dirty Harry movie. He’s amazing. One of my favorites he did is The Beguiled. A great haunting movie with Clint Eastwood that takes place during the Civil War.

[@Madbandit77]

Don had an interesting filmography.

[@LarryFleetwood8675]

He also has a cameo in Clint's directorial debut Play Misty for Me (1971).

[@mst3KGf]

@@LarryFleetwood8675 Eastwood did five films with him and Eastwood considers him his mentor as a director. Tellingly, Eastwood dedicated "Unforgiven" to both Siegel and Sergio Leone (the latter of course being the one who gave him his star making roles in the Man With No Name trilogies).

[@Madbandit77]

​@@LarryFleetwood8675 He also appeared in one film he directed, "Charley Varrick", starring Walter Matthau and Joe Don Baker, and did a "naughty" cameo in the noir comedy "Into The Night", starring Jeff Goldblum and Michelle Pfeiffer.

[@laustcawz2089]

Siegel also directed Eastwood in "Escape From Alcatraz".

[@PatBrownfield-TheRainmaker]

The gif of Donald Sutherland doing the screaming-pointing is legendary

[@inhumanmusic1411]

Funny bit of trivia. As others have said, the taxi driver was Don Siegal. The director of the first film. The funny bit was that he was actually driving the cab at night and he had horrible night vision so the terrified reactions of Donald and Brooke were actual reactions.

[@MrFarmerHoggett]

I watched this a few minutes ago, and that ending left me speechless for 10 minutes.

[@TTM9691]

Right?!!!! Not even sound on the credits. Very 70s! If the ending of a movie didn't bum you out, haunt you, disturb you, depress you or leave you with a creeped out, wtf buzz, the audience would ask the projectionist if something was wrong with the film!😄 The best you could hope for in the 70s was a bittersweet ending! That's what passed for a happy ending in the 70s! 🤣

[@MrFarmerHoggett]

@@TTM9691 I was like staring at the credits, stunned and mouth open

[@rikdekard71]

Banjo man gave me nightmares too. One of the most underrated horror movies in my opinion.

[@EmlynBoyle]

An absolute classic. I mean, the original 1950s movie is a classic too, but this set the bar even higher. That last moment is just haunting.

[@susanliltz3875]

Veronica Cartright was in the movie ALIEN!! She was also the young girl in the movie THE BIRDS in this movie Veronica is the one working in the mud bath place and has her hair wrapped up in braids on her head .

[@Stogie2112]

Cartwright had the role of Ripley, but the producers switched her with Weaver at the last minute. Cartwright earned much praise for her performance as the terrified navigator, Lambert.

[@singbluesilver1973]

What a great film. The continual sense of dread, knowing you can’t stop running or sleep, the desperation. The sound editing is incredible.

[@roadrunner3100]

This movie holds up very well and always delivers. Philip Kaufmann is a gifted writer/director. He wrote the screenplay for The Outlaw Josey Wales and the story for the first Indiana Jones movie. He also directed The Right Stuff, one of my all time favorite movies. It's well worth a reaction video.

[@GetMeThere1]

An excellent movie with Brooke Adams is The Dead Zone (1983), one of the "good ones" made from a Stephen King novel. I think you'd love it, and it would make a great reaction video.

[@conureron3792]

Oh yes! Really good one. Christopher Walken , Martin Sheen

[@LarryFleetwood8675]

Probably my favorite King adaptation, a great film.

[@yzolakitchi]

Absolutely. Fabulous. They should deff watch that one. 👏🎬

[@HSGAutomotive]

‘They seem to have a weakness of smashing their face in-‘ Ah yes my favourite weakness, and highly effective 😂👍

[@VicMikesvideodiary]

I saw this as a kid in the theatre and that ending scared the sh*t out of me.

[@johnfitzpatrick3094]

Karen Allen was in Raiders of the Lost Ark. The actress in this movie is Brooke Adams. She was in Days of Heaven and The Dead Zone.

[@Madbandit77]

She was also in Gas Food Lodging. Brooke's married to Tony Shalhoub ("Monk", "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel").

[@johnfitzpatrick3094]

@@Madbandit77 I knew that.

[@DylansPen]

There were quite a few movies in the mid 70's to mid 80's that didn't have 'happy endings'. The Thing 1980 is another example, The Deer Hunter. This is such a great film. And all the 'crazy' camera shots that's what you get with a good director, add in a good score and you have a great film.

[@TTM9691]

I was just saying how if a 70s movie had a happy ending, the audience would demand an explanation from the projectionist! If you weren't creeped out, bummed out, freaked out, disturbed, depressed, left bittersweet or buzzing with your mind blown, you just didn't take the movie as seriously! Even Rocky; he loses the fight! That's what passes for a happy ending in the 1970s! 🤣

[@BeegableRock]

What a great movie! Memorable, haunting ending

[@KBH27]

One of the best remakes of all time. Also The Thing and The Fly

[@daniellanctot6548]

*_Damn! I hope there we be another chance on a poll soon for The Re-Animator! That movie is WILD!_*

[@NefariousKoel]

Aw yeah! Re-Animator would be a ride!

[@fday1964]

The headline on the newspaper was "webs shroud the bay area"...

[@travismorris9303]

This movie scared the shit out of me when I was 10. I saw this, the Exorcist, the Omen and the Amityville Horror all in that same year and all of them had me messed up. 😬

[@StarShipGray]

I love the 56, 78 and 93 versions of Body Snatchers, but this one is unquestionably my favorite. That was the director of the original version and Dirty Harry as the pod person cab driver.

[@kieronball8962]

Veronica Cartwright is an incredible actress and has appeared in many classic movies, including The Birds, Alien, The Witches Of Eastwick, Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, Flight Of The Navigator and of course Scary Movie 2! :)

[@laustcawz2089]

Also, a very underappreciated film she did with Richard Dreyfuss & Jessica Harper, "Inserts".

[@szeltovivarsydroxan9944]

Fun fact: Veronica Cartwright originally auditioned for the role of Ripley in Alien, but Ridley Scott thought she could do such a perfect scared face that she was relegated to the role of the freaked out audience insert Lambert (all the characters were written unisex, so they could be cast either with males or females).

[@jimtatro6550]

I was 11 years old when this movie came out and I saw it theatrically. It was PG and to this day I cannot believe that it wasn’t rated R. The ending fried my brain in ways that I still have not recovered from.😂

[@Heritage367]

You have to remember that Jaws was also rated PG in the 70s, as well as Monty Python and the Holy Grail. PG never meant 'family friendly'; it meant parents should decide for themselves if something was appropriate for their own children.

[@jenniferfoster1692]

Yes, I was the same age and my mom took me to see it, lol!! You know for Gen X, we were exposed to a lot, very early, hahaha. It was really good but yeah, I'll never get those people pointing and screeching out of my mind, never! Very effective horror movie.

[@kenpinaroc195]

Yes, same here! I'm from San Francisco so this really gave me nightmares at the time! Now it's one of my favorites and a great rewatch.

[@dancolon47]

The PG rating got away with a lot back in the 1970s and early 80s ... you could get away with Random Boobies and Swear Words because PG-13 wasn't created until the mid-1980s.

[@rexmundi2986]

Parents didn't treat their children like fragile butterflies back then.

[@frankgunner8967]

The guy who jumped on the car saying "they're here run" was the main actor in the 50's original.

[@roywilson4514]

“She’s no nipples” still crippled with laughter 10 min later 😂😂😂

[@dunbardunelm3924]

You really cannot beat classic spookiness 😂😂. Thanks for revisiting this gem 💎🥰❤️

[@nicotti]

Sam's reaction to Dan's point and scream during the send off is hilarious!

[@mmclaurin8035]

This is easily one of my favorite reaction channels. You two seem like such a lovely couple. I bet you're gonna raise a fantastic kid.

[@harnois75]

Veronica Cartwright was in A L I E N, she was also a child actress in Hitchcock's The Birds, and was in The Witches of Eastwick. Donald Sutherland is another reason to watch National Lampoon's Animal House, and is great in The First Great Train Robbery, and Kelly's Heroes.

[@auerstadt06]

"Don't Look Now" (1973) Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie.

[@penoyer79]

haha she's whiney in Alien, she's whiney in Invasion, and she's whiney in the birds too lol

[@Stogie2112]

She also had a very good role as Assistant D.A. Margaret Flanagan in the TV series, "L.A. Law."

[@robnowaczewski5351]

@@penoyer79 C'mon. She's still a child in The Birds. I wouldn't call that whiney after what she witnessed. But, I can't deny she's whiney in ALIEN. And, pretty much incompetent [Christ, Woman... at least TRY to keep it together] AND whiney in ALIEN. Wait, what was my point again? 🙂 Oh, yeah. I think you're being a bit harsh about her in this flick, since she's basically trying to survive in a world that has been lost to an invasion. I think she deserves kudos for somehow surviving as long as she did in this film. I can totally understand why she saw a familiar face and let slip her cover... only to get that she'd made her final mistake too late. The only thing I'd fault her for is assuming that Donald survived the invasion and letting her own cover slip, but I also understand it. [I probably wouldn't make that mistake, due to my natural inclinations to consider worst case scenario that would make me assume first that he was corrupted... but I wouldn't consider her an idiot for not being able to think like I do.]

[@andrewreisinger6860]

Played Gus Grissom's wife in "The Right Stuff"

[@flak8882]

Absolute classic. The Blob is also fantastic body horror with an authentic female lead.

[@stsolomon618]

What year was that one cause I only saw the Steve Mcqueen one.

[@alucard624]

@@stsolomon618 1988. Shawnee Smith rules in that movie. What's funny is she's said she really isn't a big fan of the horror genre and yet she's damn good in it as witnessed in The Blob as well as the Saw series. Personally I found her funny as hell as Linda in Becker.

[@stsolomon618]

@@alucard624 thanks

[@laustcawz2089]

I much prefer the 1958 version of "The Blob".

[@scottjo63]

10:48, actor Kevin McCarthy from the original movie playing probably the best cameo as at the end of the 1st movie he's just like this. He's playing a different character in this, but was the perfect cameo for this movie.

[@LarryFleetwood8675]

Could be the same character he's playing here, couldn't it I'd thought that might have been the idea they had that he's still trying to warn people...

[@josepha5885]

I was teenager when I saw it. I got to see Veronica Cartwright in this film and Alien which came out a few months later. Her sister, Angela, was also an actress, she appeared on the TV show Lost In Space. I was especially interested in seeing your reaction to the dog/banjo man scene, lol

[@terryhughes7349]

Robert Duvall made a cameo at the start (he was dating someone from the crew)

[@Cthulhu_Ryleh]

i love this Movie....and your both too :) greetings from Germany

[@galandirofrivendell4740]

As remakes go, this is one of the best. It not only updates the movie's premise for a new decade but it maintains a respect for the original, which is itself worthy of the title of a "classic."

[@laustcawz2089]

It also has an ominous ending, which is much more fitting.

[@YoureMrLebowski]

2:03 "Jeff Goldblum, f*ck yeah!" the enthusiasm 😆

[@Jeflar70]

FUN FACT: The panicked guy who gets run over and killed early in the movie is played by Kevin McCarthy, who was the male lead in the 1956 original. At the end of that movie, he’s screaming out the same warnings to the audience as he is in this movie. The implication is that he’s been scared and running for the 22 years between the two movies.

[@markc.7984]

The sound in the film is an ultrasound in a womb, which I believe had recently been developed and this was the first time being used in a film.

[@glennoble9637]

nice

[@iuripaiva5988]

Hi guys, this is a true classic. A hello from Brasil 🇧🇷 🇧🇷

[@GetMeThere1]

One classic film where Donald Southerland played a central role was M.A.S.H. (1972) It would make an awesome reaction video -- it's NOTHING REMOTELY LIKE the TV show.

[@Stogie2112]

What can be more terrifying than being afraid of everyone you know? Anyone you meet could be one of THEM! The original film was made during the Cold War and the Red Scare. Your neighbor could be one of Them. Your co-worker….your teacher…..THEY are living among us!

[@TTM9691]

The first one is great also and worth watching. And I like the Abel Ferrara one from the early 90s which has an interesting take on it by setting it on a military base. All three work together in a way: one is in a small town, then the big city....and a military base. The needless fourth version is where we run into troubles!

[@JayAr709]

They live, we sleep.

[@mst3KGf]

@@TTM9691 Yes, the 90s version had a brilliant idea for a setting since a military base is a place where conformity is the norm, so it's easy for the pod folk to blend in.

[@hulkhatepunybanner]

*All of a sudden, your crunchy-granola aunt starts to talk about Trump in a good way.* _EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!_

[@hulkhatepunybanner]

@@TTM9691 *What about a 4th one where they rail against vaccines and masks and extol the virtues of having a gun on one's person at all times and then make a run on the Capitol?* _JJ Abrams, can you hear me? I said "remake, remake, ..." Shhh._ It's a dark comedy!

[@stevenspringer1599]

if you're gonna follow Sutherland, "The Dirty Dozen" is what brought him to our attention long ago.

[@gordonhaire9206]

and M*A*S*H in 1970

[@LarryFleetwood8675]

Also good in one of his first roles, as the slightly retarded handyman in Fanatic (1965).

[@laurenmichel9686]

Watched this for the first time this week - I'd seen the 2007 remake and liked it but this was on a whole other level. Never has a movie been so successful in making me truly skittish about such mundane things: flowers and sleep. It was NOT easy going to bed after finishing this! I have a soft spot for 70s paranoia thrillers and I feel like this film just complements the mood of the time so well, there was so much disillusionment going on with just one thing right after another. Please check out after Spooky Season other great 70s thrillers like Marathon Man, Three Days of the Condor and All The President's Men.

[@NoLegalPlunder]

Great movie suggestions. The Parallax View, with Warren Beatty, is a great paranoia thriller from the 70s. I believe it was written by the same guy who wrote Three Days of the Condor, which is one of my all-time favorite movies. I wish more people would react to it.

[@LarryFleetwood8675]

Yes, The Marathon Man is defintely a must-see too.

[@SaltyLobster]

I never had the pleasure to watch the original but I can tell you 1978 movie is the best of the three remakes. Easily in my list of top10 (if not top5) favourite horrors. Great cast and acting, overwhelming atmosphere of distrust, isolation and helplessness, iconic alien scream, the ending. The other two bodysnatchers movies fail to replicate that. I'm glad you guys finally seen it and also wish more reaction channels would do Body Snachers (1978) videos. I can tell you almost noone reacts to this movie, and it's such a shame. It doesn't deserve to be forgotten.

[@laustcawz2089]

I've nominated it several times to be added to The National Film Registry. You can do the same.

[@mechanoid2k]

I'm not usually one to suggest movies to people especially when you do polls on patreon but I think you guys would really get a kick out of a movie called Altered States, starring William Hurt. That movie really made an impact on me when I was young.

[@757optim]

Robert Duvall made a (free) cameo appearance in this movie. I was a kid when the original movie showed on "Shock Theater" on late Friday night TV. The host was a local actor in decayed makeup who opened the show with him sitting up in a coffin with a creaking lid and the obligatory creepy "Goood evening, frieeends". (RIP Jerry Sandford) The movie was scary stuff for the time.

[@frederickgramcko5758]

One of my favorites. . . So well done, in all aspects. . .❤

[@Cagon415]

"Oh..." "Damn wtf!" That was hilarious 😂

[@brandoncameron2686]

The 1978 Invasion of the Body Snatchers remake isn't just one of the best remakes ever. It should be considered one of the best horror movies of the 1970s. I know the 1970s had a ton of great horror films. Body Snatchers is arguably one of the 10 or 12 best horror films of the decade, even with the very strong competition.

[@playerone7663]

I watch this movie once a year. Its held up really well for an almost 50 year old movie. Youre right theres so many interesting shots. And just the story is creepy as hell. One big methaphor.

[@m4tth3w967]

Lmao the thumbnail! It's like Forrest and little Forrest watching Sesame Street 😂

[@smootsprint4722]

"They seem to have a weakness...of smashing their face in" lol bold strategy cotton... let's see if it pays off

[@pmcmahon97]

This is one of my all time favorite movies

[@susanliltz3875]

Donald Sutherland has been in a ton of movies!! Check out MASH And a really great one : ORDINARY PEOPLE directed by Robert Redford, he won an Oscar for best director. Mary Tyler Moore and Timothy Hutton are in it too and Timothy won an Oscar too!!! Story of a disfunctional family after the loss of a child..

[@johnmoreland6089]

HIGHLY recommend Ordinary People. Very moving film with a superb cast.

[@OneAndOnlyMe]

This version of the story have never been bettered. It's perfect. I love how in this version that things are already happening, the world is changing; the strange people behavior could be people taken over or people who already suspect and are trying to not draw attention. This movie was made at the height of the cold war and its fears of sleeper agents in the west, but also the beginning of hyper mass consumerism and advent of digitisation of everything (fear of tech replacing people). There were lots of movies in the 70s in this theme of simply replacing people with conformant versions, The Stepford Wives is another classic. And... OMG, you've not watched any Star Trek! Holy Moly your in for a treat when you eventually do (even if you only do the movies).

[@disconnexionsdotcom]

That ending traumatized an entire generation. Donald Sutherland has always been one of my favorite actors. You probably recognize him from The Hunger Games movies. He played the President.

[@ChrisReise]

5:14 Nope, this is not Veronica Cartwright, this is Brooke Adams. You know Veronica from Alien, she plays Lambert. When you see her later in this film, I'm willing to bet you'll recognize her.

[@TheMarcHicks]

Outbreak is a fantastic movie with Donald Sutherland. Veronica Cartwright was in the original Alien. Brook Adams looks a lot like Karen Allen, who was in Raiders. Its funny, but I have always struggled to tell Karen Allen, Margot Kidder & Brook Adams apart....they all look very similar.

[@laustcawz2089]

They should've played sisters in a film.

[@CarolinaCharles777]

Thanks for reacting to this underrated film. Truly brilliant.

[@GetMeThere1]

Veronica Cartwright was the "other" female crewman in Alien. She got into a screaming match with Sigourney Weaver over her reluctance to allow the crew to come back into the ship without a quarantine period.

[@zmani4379]

You'd think after her experience in this movie, Cartwright would be more sympathetic to Weaver's concern re contamination lol

[@deckofcards87]

Another famous Donald Sutherland film is 'Don't Look Now' (1973) directed by Nicholas Roeg, a British Horror/mystery and one of the greatest films ever made. Highly recommended.

[@harpergras]

An all time classic.

[@fionnmaccumhaill3257]

Karen Allen is good in "Starman". I think you'll enjoy that one! It also stars Jeff Bridges.

[@crymsonvega4854]

That would make sense if the woman in this movie was Karen Allen, but it's not. It's Brooke Adams.

[@fionnmaccumhaill3257]

@@crymsonvega4854 Someone else commented about the director of this assisting with Indiana Jones and crossed referenced Karen Allen. I hope it makes sense now and the connection is seen.

[@Madbandit77]

​​@@fionnmaccumhaill3257 Phillip Kaufman, the director, co-wrote the story/treatment for "Raiders" with George Lucas.

[@fionnmaccumhaill3257]

Another great old psychological thriller from 1979 was "When A Stranger Calls". This was inspired by a real murder that took place in the 50's.

[@johnmoreland6089]

Truly great suspense film. I wish more reactors did that one. Did NOT care for the remake at all.

[@rexmundi2986]

Was that the "have you checked the children?" movie?

[@fionnmaccumhaill3257]

@@rexmundi2986 Yes

[@shainewhite2781]

6:06, her name is Brooke Adams, she was in Stephen King's THE DEAD ZONE.

[@josefgordon7712]

I didn’t think this would hold up as well as it did when I finally got around to watching it a few years ago. Good stuff.

[@IanFindly-iv1nl]

One of the few remakes that I actually like (a rarity). Others being The Thing (1982), Cat People (1982), Nosferatu the Vampire (the Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski version from 1979), and Scarface (1983). Actually, another earlier (1971) flick called The Mephisto Waltz features an image very similar to THAT 30:32.

[@rev.jasoncook5799]

So glad you two watched this one. It's brilliant--the next step in Hitchcockian style. The Nancy character was played by the actress who played the teenage girl in "The Birds."

[@marcuscato9083]

Daniel: "little fibers are coming after him." Actually, our people call them tendrils. 😑

[@NoelMcGinnis]

One of those rare occasions where I enjoyed the remake much more than I did the original.

[@Shango]

At the very end when Mathew is walking outside right before he points at Nancy and reveals himself, the strange music that is playing is actually the same music playing on the ship ("Amazing Grace" on bagpipes) but the music is slowed down to like half speed.

[@arserobinson7118]

I thought they synthesized it? Which was a popular thing in films in the late 70s. Yeah, that bit was filmed outside City Hall in San Francisco.

[@michaelschwartz8730]

This movie scared the CRAP out of me as a kid! Good thing I bailed at about the halfway mark, because that ending might have put me in a mental institution

[@e.s.9080]

Still chills to the bone. Just the thought of being "replaced" by anything that eliminates one's soul, either from something from outer space, spreading like a virus or inner space, something medical like mental illness. The movie represents so many levels. Listen to the audiobook, even more frightening.

[@trhansen3244]

We see it with Democrats every day. They use colleges to eliminate their souls. It's easier to control them that way.

[@cyberpunkspacejams]

I saw on the poll results that HELLRAISER and THE BLOB were the next highest ranking. You should definitely watch both, for sure, but watching THE BLOB will complete the Holy Trinity of 80s Horror Remakes, which includes The Thing and The Fly.

[@LarryFleetwood8675]

The 1988 Blob remake is brilliant, it could be the last great remake ever made.

[@cyberpunkspacejams]

@@LarryFleetwood8675 Couldn't agree more. The Darabont/Russell team knocked it outta the park

[@paulklenknyc]

Did you catch Robert Duvall's tiny cameo on the swing-set, as a priest, right at the beginning?

[@gingerbill128]

love this film , one of the few films that scared me when i was young.

[@Fretboard_Frenzy]

The brunette main actress is Brooke Adams in this 1978 flick. The other one you thought has a similar look is Karen Allen in Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981).

[@lessevdoolbretsim]

TBR ; "They seem to have a weakness of smashing their face in"

[@shainewhite2781]

11:13, 25 year old Jeff Goldblum. "Life, uh, finds a way. Oh wait, wrong movie!" 😂

[@SeanVito]

This movie was freaky AF. I saw it again recently and it holds up. Very unique horror. That ending, man.

[@prenz1015]

I'm really glad you liked this movie. I was about 14 years old when I first saw it around the early 90s. I totally agree it is truly more a psychological thriller than anything else, a very rare thriller/horror movie that leaves you with a hard-to-define "uneasy feeling", with a heavy dose of hopelessness as you said. As an awkward teenager when I first saw it, I truly felt those same things. And I think the movie makes clear there's a lot of this kind of social commentary in it. I think it's no coincidence that the two main characters worked at jobs dealing with public health! For me, the movie resonates with feelings and thoughts some of us have wondering if we can trust anyone, fears that those close to us may change or even be someone else we never really knew at all, even feelings that the world we try so hard to integrate into is really a world we desperately need to escape from. Of course it's also a technical achievement in terms of sound, music, camera work, practical effects. I'm going to watch it again to focus on some of the things you two mentioned here. Thanks!

[@katherinedinwiddie4526]

This movie creeps me out every time I hear Donald scream and point. Scary!!

[@steventownley8254]

Ben Burtt was the sound designer of the film. Right before he did Body Snatchers, he did the original Star Wars. In fact, he did the breathing for Darth Vader.

[@laustcawz2089]

This film's musical score is by Denny Zeitlin, his only musical score.

[@rullvox5912]

I saw the original black and white movie of this when I was a little kid. My friend's mom watched old classic movies, and we watched it with her. It scared the hell out of me, especially when the man's girlfriend woke up, and she had become one of Them.

[@alittlebitgone]

FUNFACT: The actor who falls onto the front of their car and screams "THEY'RE COMING!" was the star of the 1956 version.

[@deathsurge666]

This is the interesting case where this is actually the best version of this story. There’s 2 later versions, one in 1993 and one 2007, but they don’t capture it as well. Also, the guy screaming “they’re here” outside their car is the star of the original 1956 version.

[@mikefoster6018]

Great vid! Probably my favourite horror movie, even slightly above Alien, The Thing, Dawn Of The Dead, The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, The Night Of The Hunter, Rosemary's Baby, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre etc. Although Jaws could be up there - but I think of that more of a sort of adventure than a horror. I saw a KZbinr who didn't like this film, but spent the entire film fixating on when they were going to find an antidote etc - assuming a happy ending. Then said it dragged badly and lacked 'three acts'. Oh, and I can do that 'vibrating eyes' thing that Elizabeth does in Bodysnatchers near the start. It's weird - I could probably keep it going for a minute or so if I wanted, but I don't wanna risk anything getting stuck! As a side note, Donald Sutherland is in the film Disclosure (with Demi Moore and Michael Douglas) that is generally derided, and no one's ever reacted to it on KZbin. But Disclosure is one of my ultimate 'guilty pleasure' movies. Basically a kinda 'corporate crime' version of Fatal Attraction etc, but I think more interesting and b*chy! One to not take seriously and instead just sit back and enjoy Michael Douglas battling wild persecution yet again!