Invasion of The Body Snatchers 1978 -- OPENING TITLE SEQUENCE

[@SkyChaserCom]

I absolutely loved that opening sequence as a kid. In reality atmospheric entry / solar radiation would burn up anything un protected and gelatinous like that. Fortunately.

[@PianoMan-hx3ev]

Great Point!

[@andrewbrown2888]

It was excellently done,cinematography,premise,well established and new acting talent.....

[@evanmiller2562]

Thats a relief and a half

[@lordhenrykillingbelow8330]

Their biology could withstand in. We don't know. We don't know everything.

[@NetScourge]

unless it adapted over millions of years to do it without damaging itself

[@Romeofud]

Great opening sequence, watching the pods invade San Francisco on a gray chilly afternoon. It sets the mood nicely.

[@FrankieTeardrop1998]

@jett woodward Because Roger Ebert is not the man to be trusted when it comes to a movie being good or bad.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Dimebag rain ...

[@demetriussherman476]

@jett woodward Because movie critics were the first to become pod people.

[@demetriussherman476]

@jett woodward Well, if Rex Reed ever takes off his suit and stuff, you'll see that the rest of his body is a little dog.

[@blackjackmusic1107]

And I can't think of a better city to be invaded.

[@looknowtv]

What's most chilling about this film it's not the typical giant UFO that visits earth packed with aliens. This hypothetical alien life is something that is undetected really. It's more believable to me that alien life would come to earth this way.

[@bratzboyz]

absolutely, I found this to be very creepy and sneaky, something no one would be aware of, until it was too late

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Pot smokers make great houseplants and are malleable

[@wojtek1582]

I just wonder how lifeforms traveling like that survive space coldness and entering the atmosphere. But not sure how entering atmosphere on low speed would work. Our spacecrafts get very hot during that part of travel.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

​@@wojtek1582 It took but a few.

[@demetriussherman476]

what's chilling is that the aliens are exact duplicates of your parents, friends and so on. Can you bring yourself to kill them?

[@Jim_Stark]

this movie is absolutely amazing in every aspect. i have loved it since i was a child. for a very long time now i have been watching it at least once every year. i'm a huge movie buff but this is one of few movies that i need to keep re-watching.

[@jawoody9745]

lord kalidor I agree, completely..

[@hexus9198]

Excellent choice your lordship

[@S-I-T]

It has an amazing atmosphere.

[@jtaylor9562]

My all time favourite. Completely haunting. The fact that the heroes best efforts are rendered utterly futile....makes it so depressing, yet amazing. Masterpiece.

[@nickimillennium]

The way they set the atmosphere is amazing, very 70s in the best way

[@MrDeliriaframe]

The "buzzing" sound is part of the movie. I own this and have watched it countless times and the audio in this clip is exactly the way it should be. Thanks for posting. Amazing film.

[@Tommykey07]

I remember seeing this in the theater with my dad when it came out in 1978.

[@chodeshadar18]

to see how easily an alien invasion COULD happen...chilling!

[@martinguzman3995]

And there's some people who think they will come here in flying saucers. I believe the aliens may already be here.

[@ShadovvV]

The only "alien invasion" will be our own stupid fucking human race.

[@plate.armour_0996]

@@martinguzman3995x - files *intro muzik*

[@mikebasil4832]

@@martinguzman3995 Movies like this can indeed always encourage that belief for many of us.

[@AngelCintiaRockgirl]

The noises in this opening had my cat's eyes popping open wide and scanning the room.

[@mikebasil4832]

These are some of the best pre-CGI visual effects of all time. 👍🏻

[@AKASHA27976]

So true

[@Mutrino]

I think this is one of the best remakes ever

[@FrankieTeardrop1998]

@jett woodward Rob Zombie's Halloween is godawful but each to their own.

[@AKASHA27976]

Yes

[@bri55118]

A remake done right. Adds to the original, takes it to a new level, treats it's audience with intelligence.

[@adrianbrowne7874]

Extremely sad to hear of the passing away of Donald Sutherland today. The Invasion Of The Bodysnatchers, remains for me the greatest example, of his 'idiosyncratic genius'!! RIP Donald!!❤

[@brendanmcparlane4441]

Rip to him

[@XfiveTactical]

When I heard the heartbeat of my unborn child for the first time I thought of this film :-)

[@demetriussherman476]

What you posted reminded me of a creepy scene in the original where a mother puts a pod next to her baby's crib.

[@MGrayl-ib5fo]

@@demetriussherman476 "and soon there'll be no more tears..."

[@madcapmakov2]

The music when the pods ascend into space sounds so oddly awe inspiring.

[@nickimillennium]

The soundtrack is oddly hopeful because it’s actually a triumph for the aliens. They get to continue their species and terraform another planet.

[@holden6104]

The first time I heard my daughter's heartbeat on a doppler, I was like.....fucking BODY SNATCHERS.

[@MVR326]

Easily one of the best openings I've ever seen. The entire scenario is told to us with only visuals, and it's quite clear that something from outer space is manifesting on earth

[@bandfromtheband9445]

Philip Kaufman made a beautiful sci-fi/horror film - and this is it Watch the whole film. This outstanding music, plays off of all the energy of the original film. Then, as the film gets underway, it reverts to those incredible sound effects. It just works!

[@brendas.1374]

Great film! I remember seeing this at the Drive-In theater in 1978. I was 12 at the time.

[@ursamajor5107]

OMG... Did it scar you for life as it did me?

[@Tommykey07]

I was 8 or 9

[@zoyadulzura7490]

One of the best film openings ever. It feels so real, so alien. CGI these days doesn't have the same sharpness and distinction that practical effects did back then. CGI (when it noticeably CGI) just looks bland and monotonous and makes me feel so outside of the film. This sequence draws me in.

[@andrewbrown2888]

You just mad coz can't be no bean pod....

[@politicamenteincorrecto965]

Pure cosmic horror. These opening scenes are a tribute and recognition to the cosmic horror of H. P. Lovecraft and his many-times plagiarized creatures. Just as Carpenter's The '82 Thing is a recognition of Lovecraft's work "In the Mountains of Madness," so said by Carpenter himself, this remake of Kaufman is also a recognition of Lovecraft's mythology. It could be said that Jack Finney was inspired by the "Mi-go", beings that were fungi, that is to say, between the animal and the vegetable and that obviously reproduce by spores. The Mi-go could control humans since they could perform brain surgery and also introduce other organs to be able to communicate with other humans. Another inspiration for Finney was "The Ancients", since their anatomy is the same as plants and animals and they reproduce by spores or bipartition.

[@Joey7Z7Horror]

You mean In the Mouth of Madness

[@robertevans4165]

The Main Title opening to this awesome movie is one of the best and it gets better. I love the scene where Donald, Brooke, Jeff and Veronica are sleeping and the pods start to open and grow, how the special effects team pulled it off was brilliant. Robert Bridgend Wales

[@ursamajor5107]

A bit of consolation for you folks who worry about the nihilistic ending of this film and the final fate of humanity. The 1978 Jack Finney novelization of this film (adapted from his original work) has quite a different ending. Hard to say more without spoilers, but it is beautiful and melancholy at the same time. Well worth a read.

[@bandfromtheband9445]

Just f'ing fantastic! The sound design is fantastic and I completely understand why Phil would want US, his audience to hear the sounds of the aliens. The soundtrack didn't kill it completely, but it came close to it! The film is crazy, amazing and great.....anymore superlatives?

[@nickimillennium]

What’s intriguing is how innocuous it looks. Even if you notice it, you wouldn’t think anything of it: a weird fast growing flower and some snot, no one would care until it’s too late.

[@firechiefrisley]

The Pulse - Pounding Precision of a Paranoid "Pod"- Cast. ... Who are the unemotional, somnambulant drones who spitefully denied this absolutely top-drawer "Me Decade" redo of at least a paltry smattering of "Oscar" nods? I am well aware that genre pictures, let alone remakes, tend to get short shrift from the cantankerous, white-haired cruds within the Academy but this little Sci'-Fi' '70's sizzler was clearly deserving of some "Above the Line" nominational love. Not to mention Chapman's coldly-clinical off-kilter San Fran' lensing and Zeitlin's memorably offbeat One-Off incidental scoring. Whenever I put scissors to paper, I am always reminded of a stylishly primped, Disco' era Sutherland's "Matthew Bennell" and the remaining balance of that fabulously real leading-four ensemble. From the most excellent secondary cast, an Art Hindle Genetic Duplication Trimester Trifecta would be completed with the busted NBC pilot "The Clone Master", also from '78, then Cronenberg's chilling child-custody manifesto "The Brood" as the placenta-ripping Midnight Finale. Every -"Body" Needs Some - "Body" Sometimes...

[@7homas7V]

firechiefrisley top notch.

[@stevencohen624]

In my opinion this was as good as the original. You would think though that the seeds would have been incinerated upon entering our atmosphere.

[@hxhxhgfd]

+Steven Cohen Not really. The seeds have so little mass that it doesn't take much air resistance to slow them down. Ram heating probably wouldn't have gotten high enough to cause them any harm.

[@arserobinson7118]

They weren't seeds until they got to earth and assimilated them, you see here on the intro they are jelly-fish like organisms of little mass, so they simply floated to earth

[@jawoody9745]

Even better than the original. Aw hell, I love both versions. Why they weren't incinerated entering our atmosphere is never explained in neither the films nor the book.

[@sha11235]

I don't see why people like this version. It has a no hope ending. At least the original gave us some hope. Was the idea that the times were different? Didn't anybody complain about this?

[@michaelberry3862]

@@sha11235 Why does every film have to have a happy ending? Sometimes, a no hope ending is realistic

[@Heinrich99]

That noise is them invading

[@Arthaslepeureux]

Why does everymovie that take place in San Fransisco, Like this classic. Always reminds me of The Room. Hey, maybe it is secretly an spin-off and Johnny is an alien.

[@sha11235]

Not every film does. It depends on where they want the story to take place.

[@peterp2153]

Nowadays it’s due to tax breaks for filming there. This film in 1978 ? Just An artistic choice.

[@lulucalliope713]

In The Room video game, it's revealed at the end that Johnny was an alien. XD

[@hexus9198]

Youre tearing me apart, Elizabeth!

[@garycobiak5926]

It's a weird place.

[@Tommykey07]

So, did they target Earth specifically, or did they just float off into space and see where the solar winds take them?

[@jalenjohnson1662]

The latter I think

[@TheCeraization]

Yeah, they didn’t target Earth specifically. Any planet with life would’ve done, but unfortunately, it was Earth that they were drifted to.

[@nickimillennium]

The latter.

[@bratzboyz]

amazing movie, watched it a few days ago, just awesome XD

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

There's a scream-face at 1:03

[@Eragarev]

Apparently, this opening was not supposed to be of an alien world, but actually Earth in the distant future after being completely consumed. According to the director's trivia anyway. Doesn't really explain the other planets in the background..

[@ursamajor5107]

Thank you for that... it makes a lot of sense. In the 1978 novelization of the film it describes the moon as once being full of organic life, and the pods had decimated it before moving to earth.

[@samdaniels2]

"In Director's Commentary for the 1978 remake, director Philip Kaufman confirms that the planet seen at the beginning of the film is the Pod People's homeworld, but suggests the viewer can also interpret it as a distant future Earth that has been robbed of all it's resources and natural life by them."

[@nickimillennium]

It’s not earth. It’s a distant planet that’s been destroyed by the aliens. They only survive by being carried by solar winds to other planets to terraform. The suggestion is that earth will become like the desolate planet once the aliens consume all of the resources.

[@slopez5495]

Chubby Rain!

[@deadbeatzfiction3351]

6 years late i don't care i love this comment! XD

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

GOTCHA SUKKAZ

[@mattdubya1037]

and now 43 years later San Francisco.. yep makes total sense

[@donnahall6573]

Bwahahahahahan!!!!

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Oh no ... pot people from pot plants. POD, sorry

[@neon_one]

Anyone know what were looking at? Like what they used for the special fx. it seems to be something through a microscope

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Gelatin from an art supply store, according to the director.

[@neon_one]

@@RideAcrossTheRiver oh hm thanks. I would not have guessed that.

[@Shanethefilmmaker]

@@neon_one from the looks of it some glitter too to make it look like some glowing otherworldly one cell animal.

[@Stormkrow280]

I’ve never really understood how to pods work

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

They digest you

[@jawoody9745]

So Excellent!

[@thedarkfairyprincess]

Does anyone.know where I can watch this movie that's not netflix or where I can buy it I tried looking in moviestop but got no luck :(

[@dylantran9074]

It's still on Netflix! Hurry and watch it before it's too late!

[@martinguzman3995]

I have this movie on DVD along with Alien and Lifeforce as a 3 disk pack.

[@hexus9198]

Watching it on Shout Factory’s collectors edition bluray

[@gaylynnpalmer4274]

ni ai eti?

[@Gkm-]

Incredible movie. I can actually see this happening in some sort of way. Where someone decides they need to upgrade the human race.

[@RentonElric85]

The beginning of this movie is so creepy and messed up.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Why? That goo is just like people

[@RentonElric85]

@@RideAcrossTheRiver which became people thus killing the hosts.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

@@RentonElric85 Happens all the time. Smartphones and social media killed many people I know. Same with legal pot use--some people who were normal before are just stoned all the time now. Think of that goo as 'normal' people flocking to buy shit they don't need

[@playerman2047]

Could you please fix the annoying buzzing sound?

[@connaghward1582]

The annoying buzzing sound is part of the movie itself.

[@robertevans4165]

I love this movie and it's a shame that it doesn't get shown on British TV any more as this is just a terrific remake of a great film from the 50s. I also think the UK quad poster 30x40 inch for this creepy but in all fairness Super movie is a striking poster which I have seen on eBay and am seriously interested in buying. I would love to see this on 2 Dvds.

[@brettsoyars4341]

1:10 you know? I got to wonder if that's planet Mars where those pod things came from.

[@sha11235]

Well, that is pretty interesting to show the aliens coming here and how maybe the rain helped them survive. But I still don't see why they remade the damn film anyway with a darker ending.

[@hexus9198]

From an article on Indiewire, “Somewhere between 1968’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” and 1977’s “Star Wars,” something happened in the culture. Storytellers, perhaps inspired by the fizzling out of the hippie counter-culture, the still-dragging-on war in Vietnam and post-Watergate disillusionment, began to look at the future in a somewhat darker, more idiosyncratic way than had been the case before, shifting focus to recurring themes of environmental disaster, utopias gone sour, and the end of all things.”

[@sha11235]

@@hexus9198 Yeah, maybe they felt we were ready for this kind of ending now. Remember, the original 1956 version had a darker ending as well, but test audiences didn't like it so they changed it to make it seem like we had a chance to fight the aliens. Here there is no fuckin' hope. But I like the original better.

[@mysterfrosty]

This explains our proclivity for Lilac Vegetal....

[@3912James]

If I were one of the main actors....I wouldn't have lasted more than 10 minutes into the movie. I can't stay awake past 9:00 at night

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Do you smoke a lot of pot?

[@3912James]

@@RideAcrossTheRiver No...but I'm older and can't stay away past 9 PM ET. 😋😋😋😋😋😋

[@rolyngeorges7315]

The Original and this one are my Favorite.

[@jawoody9745]

The other two were so bad they just don't count. Phil Kaufman's version is THE definitive remake of the 1950-something original classic (which also scared the hell out of me when I was a little kid).

[@SamuelBlack84]

It's strange, but on occasion I've found similar substance in the rain before

[@historyinkernow7058]

they say one of the ways our world could end is due to alien seeds and spors

[@Eragarev]

Lol it's probably how it started.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

@@Eragarev There is no process or natural record that shows or even suggests that.

[@smoke2752]

@@RideAcrossTheRiver if you use your imagination there is. Fun fact- Some mushroom spores can survive in outer space. Another fact, life on the ground wouldn't exist without the help of Mycelium which can grow mushrooms and eject spores in very intelligent and creative ways.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

@@smoke2752 Intelligent fungus?

[@smoke2752]

@@RideAcrossTheRiver seems like you aren't really a nature and physics guy.

[@HailAnts]

The atmosphere of this opening scene is perfect. But even as a kid I knew this was ridiculous. Space is much, much, *much* too big for this to be even remotely possible. Spores spreading through interstellar space? No..

[@SamuelBlack84]

How do you know?

[@DiegoEsteban1910]

How they travelled across the space?

[@johnfitzpatrick3094]

Solar winds.

[@xponen]

@John Fitzpatrick, but solar winds push the opposite way; away from the sun. If it ride solar winds then it need to come from somewhere closer to the sun so that it is pushed toward Earth but it can't be because it would get burned near the sun.

[@jawoody9745]

xponen_ Who knows? I'm sure that one of a few people don't understand that space is a vacuum and therefore, nothing can be heard. Kubrick and Nolan got it right. No other directors did. It's what makes the Star Wars films really cheesy, hearing these massive spacecrafts roaring by on screen.

[@Shanethefilmmaker]

While the music is good, there was something confusing about it. During the shots where the pods are floating into space it seems to be stuck between awe and terror. Not sure if it was intentional but it threw me off.

[@nickimillennium]

It’s meant to be ominous. The aliens arrival to earth is a triumph for them, ensuring their survival but means doom for Earth, hence the music is both triumphant and frightening.

[@transparence]

i love this opening, but what's wrong with the sound?!

[@connaghward1582]

It’s part of the movie itself.

[@flashkraft]

Invasion via Panspermia maybe from an interstellar asteroid like Oumuamua as it passes the Earth.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Oumuamua didn't pass Earth and asteroids don't carry biological material.

[@mrfeenix1]

Anyone out there know how they made this sequence? The Aliens that is.. are they some real life sea animal lava or something similar? Definitely not special effects ... anyone??

[@nitrobyname]

On the directors commentary video on KZbin he said it was literally just some 5 dollar gel he bought in an art store. It created this effect when it was filmed in water. That is some great use of cheap materials and and some ingenuity to create such a realistic look and feel.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

@@nitrobyname The goo sending out threads on the plants was filmed ... backwards!

[@djwho75]

The invasion...of cellphones and tablets.they will deprive you of emotions!!!! Hahahaha!!!

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Don't forget pot. At least drunk parties were active. Pot parties are like watching jelly houseplants giggle and sit there.

[@targetrender9529]

Great film, but the idea of gelatinous spores jumping off a planet and floating through space at faster than light speed (and surviving) is ridiculous.

[@nickimillennium]

Not that strange. There are microscopic animals that have been shown to inexplicably survive in extreme environments.

[@Hunternet7]

In the clouds at the beginning a pagan 3 of wands ( tarot ) can be seen, was Ira Levin a witch? He did let the Satanists win in Rosemary's baby?

[@hexus9198]

I think it was an antenna array 🤔

[@endlesswick]

Panspermia. It may be how we got here.

[@thomasshaftoe461]

The pod people were kind of like hunans in a way because of invading and killing others to earn land and resources.

[@lunaracc914]

plastered United Arsits logo

[@kennetharmpriest7275]

Morgellons....😔😔😔

[@dixiemay1649]

#18 down. Trump,, and Clinton did it!

[@jawoody9745]

Oh, gawd! Please don't bring this crap up again.....

[@whyyyyou]

I like this opening scene quite a bit but when things start to get going afterwards,the film is hit & miss for me.

[@sha11235]

I wonder why they decided on the no hope ending.

[@cambodiaism]

Annoying Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzing!

[@jawoody9745]

WHAT BUZZ are you talking about??? I don't hear anything but the music and the creepy sounds made by the aliens themselves.

[@tomada36]

if ever a video clip should be obliterated…

[@andrewbrown2888]

And whats the godsam deal with the chick peas! And the motherf-in snow peas....

[@andrewbrown2888]

Why you wannaact like a brussel sprout?! Why?!

[@andrewbrown2888]

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