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.
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".
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!
@@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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
@@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).
@@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.
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! 🤣
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.😂
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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! 🤣
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.
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 .
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. 😬
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! :)
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).
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."
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.
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
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!
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!
@@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.
@@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!
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).
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.
@@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.]
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.
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.
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..
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Especially after this movie - you should have a group of movies to watch that are the originals - The Thing, The Fly... It's a shame few people watch B&W movies or think less of them, but this one and the other two I mentioned are awesome. They're just different enough that you will like both versions and see where the remakes came from. Fun as always!
An interesting point about the original "The Thing", the scene where the monster breaks through the door and the men attack it in unison was one of the first times a director had so many people all doing something at the same time.
1st 👍 however, you should have made this a double feature with the original as the 1st actor from the original makes a perfect cameo in it. Also, yes that is Robert Duvall as the priest on the swing in the beginning.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a movie that can be remade for every generation because every generation has a fear and paranoia. It can be communist scares, terrorist scares, or even inter-party scares nowadays lol
That line - which they brilliantly caught - "he could tell you if Jeffery had become gay, if he'd become a Republican...." 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😄 Brilliant. It's EXACTLY like that.😆😆😆
Other great (and some hugely underrated) 70s sci-fi/horror/thrillers to add to your list: Silent Running (1972) Obsession (1976) The Fury (1976) Westworld (1973) The Omen and Damien: Omen II The Parallax View (1974) Three Days of the Condor (1975) The Boys From Brazil (1978) Marathon Man (1976) Sorcerer (1977) Capricorn One (1977) Silent Partner (1978) Time After Time (1979) Deliverance (1972)
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.
@@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.
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 TH-camr 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 TH-cam. 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!
Both the original and this version are the only two good takes on this story IMO. The subsequent remakes have been pretty bad with the last one The Invasion with Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig being the worst.
How can you prefer the original? I would agree with you had the original ended with a close up on the hero looking at the camera and saying "you're next!"... the happy ending was totally out of place.
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.
Another great Sci Fi Horror Thriller Film! Its the second adaptation of the Jack Finney Novel, the first being Invasion Of The Body Snatchers 1956, the third version being BODY SNATCHERS in 1993, and the final adaptation was released in 2007 as THE INVASION with Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig.
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.
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."
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.
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!
Loved that ending. My uncle said he went to Wal-Mart and there's people everywhere staring and pointing at him lol. That reminded me of this lol. So funny lol.
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.
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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.
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".
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!
@@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.
@@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.
@@TTM9691 I agree the 60s were absolutely essential to the greatness continued in the 70s
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.
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.
The little Brenner girl's name was Alice. Or maybe Lois. 😂
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
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.
*It's Veronica's eyes. They say, "Scare me, please."*
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'.
Veronica Cartwright was in both 'The Birds' (as a child) and 'Alien', and 54 other films. She's still working.
She was reunited with Tom Skerritt from Alien in Wisdom (1986), star Emilio Estevez' directorial debut.
She was also memorable in her appearance on "The X-Files." A true genre icon.
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.
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.
More people should react to this. The ending gave me (age 9) nightmares for days. Great job guys.
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.
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.
I saw this in 1978 when I was 11 years old and I'm from San Francisco. Nightmares for days afterward! 😫
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.
@@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.
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.
I'm glad I read beyond the first sentence.
The aliens kinda do act like @user-gt2uf8cq9y
Yes, good one!!
@@user-gt2uf8cq9y Actually I was expecting to see Nancy Pelosi as one of the aliens being in San Francisco
and all. Kind of disappointed.
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.
The original 1956 Body Snatchers is still a very strong sci fi classic that holds up very well after all these years
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.
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.
and the taxi driver at 25:57 is don siegel the director of the original
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).
Whisky always works in movies, especially if it's J&B... 🥃
Donald Sutherland is in many great movies. I can’t recommend Kelly’s Heroes strongly enough. His character is unforgettable.
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.
The original beatnik hippie. Not widely known but there along with Heller and the rest.
@@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.
Woof WOOF WOOF!
That's my other dog impersonation.
Another great movie starring Donald Sutherland is Ordinary People (1980). Winner of four Academy Awards.
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.
Yeah , but the original was better. Just an opinion . 1950's Sci Fi version is a classic. Much better ending
The 1993 remake is not bad, not so meme-able though.
@@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."
One of the greatest remakes ever. Up there with The Thing
The gif of Donald Sutherland doing the screaming-pointing is legendary
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.
Don had an interesting filmography.
He also has a cameo in Clint's directorial debut Play Misty for Me (1971).
@@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).
@@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.
Siegel also directed Eastwood
in "Escape From Alcatraz".
I watched this a few minutes ago, and that ending left me speechless for 10 minutes.
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! 🤣
@@TTM9691 I was like staring at the credits, stunned and mouth open
“She’s no nipples” still crippled with laughter 10 min later 😂😂😂
Congrats on being introduced to the beautiful and talented Brooke Adams!
What a great film. The continual sense of dread, knowing you can’t stop running or sleep, the desperation. The sound editing is incredible.
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.
Banjo man gave me nightmares too. One of the most underrated horror movies in my opinion.
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.😂
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.
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.
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.
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.
Parents didn't treat their children like fragile butterflies back then.
What a great movie! Memorable, haunting ending
The ending of that movie traumatized me as a child. I still think it’s one of the most terrifying scenes ever.
I saw this as a kid in the theatre and that ending scared the sh*t out of me.
One of the best remakes of all time. Also The Thing and The Fly
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.
Absolute classic. The Blob is also fantastic body horror with an authentic female lead.
What year was that one cause I only saw the Steve Mcqueen one.
@@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.
@@alucard624 thanks
I much prefer the 1958
version of "The Blob".
‘They seem to have a weakness of smashing their face in-‘ Ah yes my favourite weakness, and highly effective 😂👍
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.
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.
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! 🤣
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.
2:03 "Jeff Goldblum, f*ck yeah!"
the enthusiasm 😆
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.
Oh yes! Really good one. Christopher Walken , Martin Sheen
Probably my favorite King adaptation, a great film.
Absolutely. Fabulous. They should deff watch that one. 👏🎬
You really cannot beat classic spookiness 😂😂. Thanks for revisiting this gem 💎🥰❤️
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 .
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.
"Oh..."
"Damn wtf!" That was hilarious 😂
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.
*_Damn! I hope there we be another chance on a poll soon for The Re-Animator! That movie is WILD!_*
Aw yeah! Re-Animator would be a ride!
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.
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.
Yes, The Marathon Man is defintely a must-see too.
Sam's reaction to Dan's point and scream during the send off is hilarious!
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. 😬
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! :)
Also, a very underappreciated film
she did with Richard Dreyfuss
& Jessica Harper, "Inserts".
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).
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."
It also has an ominous ending,
which is much more fitting.
Lmao the thumbnail! It's like Forrest and little Forrest watching Sesame Street 😂
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.
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.
She was also in Gas Food Lodging. Brooke's married to Tony Shalhoub ("Monk", "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel").
@@Madbandit77 I knew that.
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
This is one of my all time favorite movies
i love this Movie....and your both too :) greetings from Germany
Hi guys, this is a true classic. A hello from Brasil 🇧🇷 🇧🇷
One of my favorites. . . So well done, in all aspects. . .❤
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!
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!
They live, we sleep.
@@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.
*All of a sudden, your crunchy-granola aunt starts to talk about Trump in a good way.* _EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!_
@@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!
The guy who jumped on the car saying "they're here run" was the main actor in the 50's original.
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).
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.
"Don't Look Now" (1973) Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie.
haha she's whiney in Alien, she's whiney in Invasion, and she's whiney in the birds too lol
She also had a very good role as Assistant D.A. Margaret Flanagan in the TV series, "L.A. Law."
@@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.]
Played Gus Grissom's wife in "The Right Stuff"
The headline on the newspaper was "webs shroud the bay area"...
Thanks for reacting to this underrated film. Truly brilliant.
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.
An all time classic.
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.
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..
HIGHLY recommend Ordinary People. Very moving film with a superb cast.
if you're gonna follow Sutherland, "The Dirty Dozen" is what brought him to our attention long ago.
and M*A*S*H in 1970
Also good in one of his first roles, as the slightly retarded handyman in Fanatic (1965).
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.
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...
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.
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.
They should've played sisters in a film.
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.
I've nominated it several times
to be added to The National Film Registry.
You can do the same.
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
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.
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.
This movie was freaky AF. I saw it again recently and it holds up. Very unique horror. That ending, man.
love this film , one of the few films that scared me when i was young.
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.
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.
Daniel: "little fibers are coming after him."
Actually, our people call them tendrils. 😑
Especially after this movie - you should have a group of movies to watch that are the originals - The Thing, The Fly... It's a shame few people watch B&W movies or think less of them, but this one and the other two I mentioned are awesome. They're just different enough that you will like both versions and see where the remakes came from. Fun as always!
There are a few reaction channels who focus on older movies quite a bit.
An interesting point about the original "The Thing", the scene where the monster breaks through the door and the men attack it in unison was one of the first times a director had so many people all doing something at the same time.
"The Fly" (1958) was actually filmed in color. And the 1951 Howard Hawks Thing movie was titled "The Thing From Another World".
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.
1st 👍 however, you should have made this a double feature with the original as the 1st actor from the original makes a perfect cameo in it. Also, yes that is Robert Duvall as the priest on the swing in the beginning.
6:06, her name is Brooke Adams, she was in Stephen King's THE DEAD ZONE.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a movie that can be remade for every generation because every generation has a fear and paranoia. It can be communist scares, terrorist scares, or even inter-party scares nowadays lol
That line - which they brilliantly caught - "he could tell you if Jeffery had become gay, if he'd become a Republican...." 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😄 Brilliant. It's EXACTLY like that.😆😆😆
@@TTM9691Republicans suck stinky, shit covered balls.
@@TTM9691 *It was the Watergate break-in and ensuing distrust in government still fresh on people's minds.*
Or covid insanity.
Or social media insanity
Other great (and some hugely underrated) 70s sci-fi/horror/thrillers to add to your list:
Silent Running (1972)
Obsession (1976)
The Fury (1976)
Westworld (1973)
The Omen and Damien: Omen II
The Parallax View (1974)
Three Days of the Condor (1975)
The Boys From Brazil (1978)
Marathon Man (1976)
Sorcerer (1977)
Capricorn One (1977)
Silent Partner (1978)
Time After Time (1979)
Deliverance (1972)
One of those rare occasions where I enjoyed the remake much more than I did the original.
TBR ; "They seem to have a weakness of smashing their face in"
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.
You'd think after her experience in this movie, Cartwright would be more sympathetic to Weaver's concern re contamination lol
Karen Allen is good in "Starman". I think you'll enjoy that one! It also stars Jeff Bridges.
That would make sense if the woman in this movie was Karen Allen, but it's not. It's Brooke Adams.
@@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.
@@fionnmaccumhaill3257 Phillip Kaufman, the director, co-wrote the story/treatment for "Raiders" with George Lucas.
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 TH-camr 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 TH-cam. 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!
I still prefer the original, but the cast in here is amazing and all do a excellent job. Love the banter and the discussion :)
Both the original and this version are the only two good takes on this story IMO. The subsequent remakes have been pretty bad with the last one The Invasion with Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig being the worst.
How can you prefer the original? I would agree with you had the original ended with a close up on the hero looking at the camera and saying "you're next!"... the happy ending was totally out of place.
@@sdkelmaruecan2907 The 1956 version did not end with a happy ending though.
@@sdkelmaruecan2907Because art is subjective and individuals have different tastes. Unless you’re a pod person… 😮😮😮
@@sdkelmaruecan2907 The revised 1956 ending was less bleak than the original cut, but still ambiguous. Not really a happy ending.
"They seem to have a weakness...of smashing their face in" lol bold strategy cotton... let's see if it pays off
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.
Sound design plays such an important part in horror flicks. This one does such a great job
Another great Sci Fi Horror Thriller Film!
Its the second adaptation of the Jack Finney Novel, the first being Invasion Of The Body Snatchers 1956, the third version being BODY SNATCHERS in 1993, and the final adaptation was released in 2007 as THE INVASION with Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig.
This and the original are amazing. The other two, not so much.
@@alucard624 The 1993 version is pretty decent, but I doubt you'll find anyone willing to defend the 2007 version.
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.
The 1988 Blob remake is brilliant, it could be the last great remake ever made.
@@LarryFleetwood8675 Couldn't agree more. The Darabont/Russell team knocked it outta the park
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."
This movie creeps me out every time I hear Donald scream and point. Scary!!
The original is my favorite. This is a good remake.
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.
This film's musical score is by
Denny Zeitlin, his only musical score.
Robert Duvall made a cameo at the start (he was dating someone from the crew)
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!
the half man half dog scene still gets me. Creeps me out so much
Practical effect. A dog wearing a rubber mask. It was just serendipity that the dog stuck it's tongue through the mouth hole.
Loved that ending. My uncle said he went to Wal-Mart and there's people everywhere staring and pointing at him lol. That reminded me of this lol. So funny lol.
lol that ending gave me a good chuckle! 😂
Great movie, fun reaction
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.