Filmmaker reacts to Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) for the FIRST TIME!
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One of the cool things they did with this movie is the guy who was hit and killed by the car was the Star of the 1950's original version of the movie so that scene was a junction point of both movie's where they sort of combine the 2
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@@zeedevel7141 Yes that is a key point that must be pointed out.
One of the greatest remakes in the history of films. The director of the 1950s film played the cab driver.
And the star of the first film has a perfect cameo.
Good to know.
It's definitely in the conversation for top 3 remakes. I personally prefer The Fly and The Thing, but I think that comes down to my personal preference to body horror. Still a fantastic and terrifying movie.
A remake? I just consider it as a book adaptation. The first movie didn't create the story, it was itself an adaptation.
@@johnblack3204I think this movie relied a little more on atmosphere, suspense and story than these other 2 "heavy effects" movies. That's probably why I like Invasion more.
I saw this in the theatre as a kid. Scared the crap out of me. Was also the first time I saw Leonard Nimoy not as Spock. Took a bit to wrap my head around that as I started to realize actors are in more than one thing.
The rare case where the 50's original version and the 70's update both rock while bringing different visions of executing the same premise and haunting vibe. I saw this as a kid in '78 with my parents who immediately knew they had a huge collapse in judgement bringing 8 year old me to this waking nightmare. My cousin came with us who was my age and who was a huge horror nut. We lived in the Bay Area so that just added to the immersion of my already compromised broken mind. After the movie, my cousin spent the night. He watched horror movies on tv all the time, a regional midnight show called Creature Features and read all the Marvel horror books like Creatures on the Loose and Werewolf By Night. He slept like a baby. Me, I psyched myself out and refused to fall asleep and kept checking under my cousin's bed for a pod that might be replicating him. My mom finally woke up, made me drink a glass of warm milk and I immediately passed the F out. Found out later, she crushed a Benadryl into it to shut my whiny, crying ass down. Lol.
LOL... saw it when I was 14... this was a revelation. We also had Creature Feature in the New York City area.
21:10 When I was in college, a girl I knew and I would greet each other by pointing and screaming the way Donald Sutherland did. We would do it at parties or if we just encountered each other on the street.
That's hilarious.
Haha , ace.
Veronica Cartwright (Nancy) was not only Lambert in Alien she was also the little girl in The Birds. She she spent her entire career as a horror queen.
And she was the Cherry Woman in the Witches of Eastwick
She is also the "my husband is not my husband" patient in the Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig remake.
Her sister Angela Cartwright...
“Craziest gentrification ever” - you’ve absolutely nailed it
Robert Duvall plays the priest on a swing in the very first scene. It's unsettling to think that he is the very first pod person in the film, mimicking the behavior of the nearby children without any concept of what is and isn't normal or appropriate adult (let alone clerical) behavior. I adore invasion movies, where the invasion is quietly already happening in the background, before we even know it.
Duval was friends with the Director Philip Kaufman and volunteered to swing by (pun intended) and do a cameo. No pay, just a straight favor, thought it would be fun AND keep in mind this was AFTER him being in The Godfather! Now thats a friend!
The Teacher was already transformed
These movies are among my favorites!
Oh wow,, that is Robert Duvall...
Philip Kaufman who directed this film went on to help write the first Indiana Jones with George Lucas as well as write and direct one of my all time favorite space movies, The Right Stuff. He's a really talented filmmaker.
"The Right Stuff" is so great. That's a movie that should have at least as many reactions as the inferior "Apollo 13"! No offense to Ron Howard, but "Right Stuff" is by far the superior film.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) was, and is, one of the creepiest and scariest horror films ever made. An absolute classic that still holds up.
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"The craziest form of gentrification" should be the movie's new tagline.
Hahahaha right??
That was an absolutely inspired comment
If you look in the background, a few of the extras are staring directly at the main characters/staring right at the camera. As the film continues more and more extras are staring, letting the audience know that They outnumber Us in the end, and They know you know. Spooky as all get out.
I miss films with bleak, twilight zone-like endings. Sometimes, you just want to leave the theatre unsettled, and replay the story over and over again in your head. This is the perfect movie for having the creeps.
Well said
The creeps for sure
Watch jeepers creepers 1 and you get such a movie.
Dude, I saw this movie at the theater when I was 11 years old. To say the ending fucked me up would be an understatement. Lol.
What I love about this remake is that it totally subverts the ideas and themes of the original. In the original, the main characters are the first ones to discover the alien invasion and the theme is that people you've known all your life can change overnight. In the remake, no one notices the changes in their neighbours because they don't know their neighbours. Also, the main characters in the remake aren't the first ones to notice the invasion, they're literally the last. The invasion is already over before the titles have finished playing.
This movie scared the absolute crap out of me at ten years old. I was literally having nightmares about that ending for weeks after seeing it.
The "You're next!" man is the star of the classic 50s version. Great cameo.
Explanation of the human-faced dog:
That was actually the homeless man with the dog. They were in the process of being taken over when their "pods" were smashed. As a result of cross-contamination their "copies" were mixed, resulting in a human/dog hybrid.
This and The Thing are my favorite horror remakes done right. The ending is nightmare inducing.
Never thought of them side by side, I'm always putting The Thing next to Alien, r The Thing next to The Fly, or The Thing next to American Werewolf In London.....or even Poltergeist, since it opened the same day, lol. But you're absolutely correct! That's a great observation! That would be a good double feature!
I really love how the suspense keeps building as the movie goes on, and how as the characters (and us the viewers) learn more about what’s happening, we also become more paranoid, just like the characters.
I also appreciate your reactions, because it’s very interesting to see/hear from someone who is a filmmaker, so you get a different perspective on things.
One of my all time favs. You don't get many movies that are simultaneously a conspiracy thriller, sci-fi and horror rolled into one. The original version from the 50s is great in its own way too! Much more a product of its era but really cool to see how this move develops on it as all great remakes should.
Watch it as a kid, had nightmares for days due to that last scene. Then I saw Ordinary People and I realized what an amazing actor Donald Sutherland is, from the creepiest to the sweetest last scene.
Ditto, ditto, and ditto. Every single thing you said, I completely had the experiences, although I saw Sutherland in a fantastic movie with Sean Connery, "The Great Train Robbery" and "Animal House", all three came out in 1978. And I probably saw him in the film version of "M*A*S*H"" at some point before "Ordinary People". But I remember seeing him in "Ordinary People" and.....he looked totally different. It's like 1980 came and Donald Sutherland instantly became a middle-aged actor! But yeah, this movie.......I can't believe there are not way more reactions to this movie, right????
@@TTM9691 I saw The Great Train Robbery and M*A*S*H at some point, not in 1978 though, I was a toddler. I saw Ordinary People at High School, for my Ethics class and I had to write an essay about it, lol. The whole cast was amazing and I had a crush on Timothy Hutton (also, I was a big fan of Ellery Queen, a tv show with his father on it). And yes, it should be more reactions to this awsome movie. (English is not my first language, so, sorry for any mistakes!).
@@susannariera Your English is excellent!
I saw both movies at the drive in. They’d show some kid movie followed by something our parents would tell us to “lie down and go to sleep” for. 😂
I remember similarly being freaked out myself by Mary Tyler Moore being so creepy in Ordinary People. I thought it was going to be a comedy because she was in it
Should watch Kelly's Heroes and The Dirty Dozen... both WWII films where you see Sutherland as his most insane and comedic. I also highly recommend MASH.
The woman at the end that screams is the same actress that played Lambert in Alien- she's got the "Oh God..." line in the chestburster scene.
She's definitely got the horror vibe down.
The dog with the man's face was, IIRC, sleeping next to it's master when the pod got him. Big mistake there.
She also plays the young niece of the lead actor in The Birds and does a great job in that move too
Seeing the people on the bus staring out the windows was a very well-crafted creepy touch added to this film that I did not immediately pick up on until multiple viewings. Extremely well conceived.
Completely dating myself, but I remember watching this as a kid and not wanting to go to sleep afterward. 😂
Same. Had nightmares for days!
Me too. I felt like I was drowning the first time I saw that ending. Most horror I think sucks and are directed by hacks; THIS is what a great horror movie looks like as far as i'm concerned.
I'm so glad you watched this and liked it. I've been recommending this one for years now, and you're the first I've seen do it. Definitely a key film for cinema fans, especially for the period.
Four years before "The Thing."
This movie has some of the best sound design.
It's one of my favorite horror movies.
Outstanding sound design! It knows perfectly when to have musical underscoring for a moment, and when to have subliminal unsettling sounds.
If you watched The Lost Boys then this (don’t know your upload sequence); did you realize you had watched father & son horror movies back to back? Donald Sutherland (Invasion) & Kiefer Sutherland (Lost Boys)
A friend of mine and I went and saw this film at the theater in 1978. We thought the film was so good that we stayed for a second viewing and afterwards we talked about the movie for all the way home. It still stands up 46 years later. I have it in my film library and I re-watch it from time to time and it never gets old.
Man I haven't seen this since the early 80's, probably. This makes me want to watch it again, thanks for making this.
The special effects were SO ahead of their time, a lot of them looking great to this day. I also love how they were willing to go with a bummer ending, that's rare and brave IMO (especially for back then). It's really a marvel of a movie.
So happy that you finally watched this, the cinematography alone is so impressive. Great video
The main character at the very end of this film that [surprisingly] turned out to have become one of them---pointing his finger and screaming at the lady----THAT actor is Kiefer Sutherland's father.
Kiefer Sutherland is the actor that played David in The Lost Boys. The guy with the bleach blonde mullet and the cool long leather jacket? Yep. You watched him and now you've watched his father. Interesting connection, huh? 😏😎
Very!!
watching the movie multiple times is when you really see the creepiest things. like when Nimoy is talking and then stands next to a trash bin full of discarded bodies, something you can't identify the first time seeing it.
Good catch, also the people on the bus looking out the windows, very creepy...
It's a great 'companion-piece' to The Thing, both are sci-fi/horrors about paranoia and mistrust with a sense of dread and hopelessness.
18:52 "What is that abomination?!?!" 😂 That's the funniest thing. Oh man, I got light headed from laughing.
Back when remakes were rarer and actually brought something new to the original concept. Looking at society today, this movie is actually scarier and more effective than its ever been.
If I’m correct ‘the human face dog’ was from a failed pod person(a homeless person?) and their dog - I think the pod was damaged somehow and combined the two 😬
Donald Sutherland accidentally kicks it
Great cast too: Donald Sutherland (Casanova), Leonard Nimoy (Spock, Star Trek), Veronica Cartwright (Alien, 1979),….
Veronica Cartwright was also the little girl Cathy in The Birds
@@robinnelson1248 that‘s a good one I didn‘t know! Thanks ♥️
This movie is so good!!! The best version for my taste! And I love it when we don't get a happy ending XD
Some movies have top notch intros! Inglorious Basterds, No Country For Old Men!
While others have top notch endings! Invasion Of The Bodysnatchers! Soylent Green is another if you can avoid spoilers.
Yep! The guy who was banging on the car was the star from the original!
That’s crazy, I just watched this film for the first time a few weeks ago. I’d seen the original, but I was genuinely impressed with how suspenseful and well-made this movie is.
Interesting watch and good reaction! That ending is one of the most horrific I ever saw, without any gore or real dialogue - just the raw, inhuman cry and the zoom on the facial expression - and even just seeing you watch it gave me chills again! As a remake of a 50s classic, it's much more graphic and doom-laden, and you were absolutely right to see from early on there would be no happy ending!
The 'taxi driver' who drove Matthew and Elizabeth was played by Don Siegel...the director of original "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1956)
I got married in San Francisco city hall and the ending was filmed right outside of the building. Between this iconic shot and the interior of city hall being used in the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark, my family members’ brains were blown away…
I saw this in the theater as a kid in the 70s
Many of the scenes have stayed with me since then
The dog/human, the shovel scene, "that not my wife".....
The ending was literally so shocking that I was certain that the theater had electrified the chairs😎
I’m sorry to say l had forgotten about this outstanding remake and how good it was.Thank you for watching it.
YES!!!! One of my absolute all-time favorite horror movies, and what a reaction this was! You said at the very end: "Now I wanna watch this 20 more times!" That's exactly how felt when I first saw it! I would see it every chance I got for years. The creepy paranoid atmosphere of this movie, especially in the first half, is rivaled only by "The Shining" as far as I'm concerned. The feeling of dread is palpable. And it TOTALLY delivers on the practical effects, we get the opening stuff in the rain, we get the mindblowing transformations, the shovel in the face, the man-dog.....and then her crumbling. Plus a TERRIFYING screech and musical score. Love how you loved how smart these characters were! Totally agreed! One more high-five for the 70s, man! They did not dumb stuff down! These are real multi-dimensional characters played by top-notch actors. All my fave horror movies are by directors who only did one or two horror movies, and this is a perfect example. Philip Kaufman. A few years later he did "The Right Stuff", an INCREDIBLE movie about the birth of NASA, highly, highly recommend that one. THANKS JAMES!!!!!!!!! This was FANTASTIC!
Great movie. Philip Kaufman is a fantastic director. I liken him to Peter Weir. Both are so versatile with their subject matter. Can handle any genre with aplomb and don't always get their dues for that skill.
Of the several versions of Body Snatchers this is my favorite. Never looked at Donald Sutherland (RIP) the same after this. He also starred in a similar themed film, "The Puppet Masters (1994)," worth watching and not to be confused with films with more recent films with similar titles.
@6:21 That's Kevin McCarthy who was the star from the original Body Snatchers movie (1956). Nice cameo and homage to the original
Of course you realize that the actor that jumped across the hood and chased by the mob to his death was the protagonist of the 1950s Invasion of the Body Snatchers. There were a lot of character actors here... Tom Skerrit (Captain Dallas from Alien) played a big role...Leonard Nimoy (Captain/Ambassador Spock) was a leading character. The Inimitable Veronica Cartwright also the best crier ever as Lt. Lambert also on Alien. Were all perfect for these roles. The two plants taking over the homeless man and his dog; one of the plants was damaged by Donald Sutherland so the other plant merged the dog and the homeless man. In the TH-cam version Donald Sutherland clocking the old lady was left out. A pivotal scene.
The thing that's great about this and the original is that it can be applied to any idea. Just watch people be consumed by it is scary.
It’s amazing how prescient this movie (and the original) were, but not exactly the way the original creators imagined or intended.
The guy that slamming the windscreen is actually the actor that played the main character in the original movie. Near the end he is stood in traffic shouting the exact same thing
Still one of the best scary movies ever made. That final scene with the face Donald Sutherland pulls still gives shivers down the spine. In other words I complete agree with you James.
Young Kiefer Sutherland yesterday, Donald today. Great combo of classics.
Kiefer may be the bigger actor, but Don is definitely the daddy for me.
My favourite horror. I genuinely like it more than even Alien, The Thing etc. All those films have strong "what would **I** do in that situation?" suspense for the audience. But in this Bodysnatcher movie the characters all behave intelligently (with no saboteur androids or endless infighting) and there's STILL no way to galvanise a winning response to the alien life.
At a subconscious level, the movie also hits us by probing how we mistakenly carry on as normal when people around us go bad. Even the garbage trucks probe similar weaknesses in our psyche. As one real-life garbage management chief said in an interview recently, "eventually we own everything you have". Plus our fear of exclusion, the way emotion is seen as a weakness etc.
The man banging on their car window for help near the start was the star of the 1950s original movie version.
When I saw this at the movie theatre back in 1978, I remember how great the sound effects were at certain points in the film, especially that final shot. You don't get the same jolts watching it from home. The taxi driver toward the end was the director of the original film, Don Siegel
One of the first films I saw in a theater (in '78) where the ending actually sent a chill through me...
The director, Philip Kaufman, was one of the greats before falling out of favor in Hollywood. His THE RIGHT STUFF is one of the finest movies ever made. Also, THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING.
I remember watching the film in 1978 aged 10 and my god i did not sleep that night
One of the most remade films of all time...for a reason. It's a warning, think deeper. You know. The year 2020 and all that, get it? GET IT?? Lol, great reaction as always, brother. Peace.
This could have been a fantastic TV show. Imagine being allowed to grow even more attached to the characters and then seeing the world around them change and them being taken one by one.
The gradually building sense of unease and paranoia right from the start is pretty amazingly done, I feel like the first act of Shaun of the Dead took some cues from this movie. I actually just watched this for the first time on a big screen in Alamo Square Park in SF, right across the street from Elizabeth's home in the movie! It was a pretty awesome experience, especially winning a game of sci-fi movie trivia before the screening began
The dog scene omg nightmare fuel. That part always creeped me out. The old man & dog fell asleep next to each other & that thing was created ughhh
Possibly one of my favorite movie endings. It can work in a couple of different ways. Either Suthetland's character has been taken over and the changes were so subtle we didn't notice so we are caught unaware, orrr, and the ending I like better because it's more human and chilling and thus real horror, is that he is faking and deflecting suspicion to stay alive for his own self-preservation. But in doing so, does he lose his humanity and thus make moot the thing he was is holding onto? Makes you wonder what you would do in the same situation and you empathize and are disgusted because some of us would probably do that. Chilling.
The director of this movie also directed “The Right Stuff,” another great movie to react to !!!
If I remember correctly, someone kicked the seed pod that was placed next to the homeless man and his dog, creating that dog-human abomination…
Veronica Cartwright having another hysterical encounter with an alien.
6:30 - the guy shouting "You're next!" is the lead actor from the original film (he shouted that at the end)
At 5:52, the guy who is pounding on the windshield is Kevin McCarthy, the leading man in the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers. He also did the very same thing in the 1956 version.
Great movie you don't forget, and you picked the best version.
I seen this in the theater when I was 12. Messed me up just a bit.
Love how you said where is the person just has the garbage truck as pulling away.
Donald Sutherland’s face in the end of this movie haunts me to this day!
This movie is phenomenal. I must say the version from the 90s (I believe 1993) is also worth a watch.
I can't stand a bad ending... right,wrong or indifferent... this film was spot on in it's direction. Another great review James. Thanks
Besides this wonderful classic, I really, really recommend another piece of art "Don' Look Now".
One of Donald Sutherland’s best performances along with Don’t Look Now!
I'm glad you enjoyed this film, it's one of my all-time favs! Now, you need to watch 'The World's End' with Simon Pegg and directed by Edgar Wright, the completion of the trilogy they started with 'Shaun of the Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz'. It's totally appropriate for Halloween and you'll appreciate it so much more having now seen Body Snatchers!!!
This movie is an underrated CLASSIC!!!
Also the book Star Maker by Olaf Stapleton - mentioned by Veronica Cartwright at the mud spa is ANOTHER sci fi classic!
Anyone who reads this, please check it out!
I watched this when it were playing in theaters in 78 and I loved it. When it was on HBO I seen it several times. My husband didn't get the subplot and didn't liked it. It is a great Sci fi horror film and was a well made remake from the original. Thank you for reacting to the movie.
One of my favorite films! The Original is great but this is my favorite adaptation!
My crazy mama took me to see this in the drive in when i was 6
Loved your reaction!
Saw it at the drive-in (along with Rocky II) when I was six and it’s been etched into my brain for 44 years, especially when he crushed that head. And it’s PG!
Even the ads on the back of comic books were scary.
Nice touch with how you ended that. Tripped me up lol
O_O hahaha thanks fam
One of the best examples of uncanny horror laced with existential dread. So glad you got to watch this amazing film.
Although you didn’t show it in your reaction this film has one of the weirdest cameos I've ever seen.
Take a good look at the priest on the swings at the beginning.
It's Robert Duvall!
I LOVE that cameo. Great cameo. Also a sound cameo: the banjo playing is Jerry Garcia, uncredited.
So happy you liked it! Saw it last year again after decades and was extremely surprised how good it worked.
He never would have gotten away with that broken windshield for so long if it wasn't a city vehicle.
My man. Getting in Early on the horror movies I see
Tis nearly the season of my favourite seasonal holiday. 😱
Fun fact Donald Sutherlamd played a character called Homer Simpson in the movie called Day of The Locust.Another great Sutherland movie is Din't Look Now.
Don't Look Now is definitely worth a watch. Similar 70's paranoia feel.
Kelly's Heroes!
The original 1956 film is a classic and regarded as one of the greatest sci-fi films ever made. Wish ya had seen it first.
Just watch this! Great video and reaction per usual
Now you need to watch the original. Great reaction to a great sequel!
6:21 : the actor banging on the car ~ trying to get their attention ~ is Kevin McCarthy who played the lead 'Dr. Miles J. Bennell' in the original "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1956) ~ making a cameo here, still trying to warn everybody, like he did in the original ~
16:01 : The actor playing the cab driver ~ is director Don Siegel ~ he was the director of the original "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1956) ~ making a cameo here ~
You should really check out the 1956 version, for comparison purposes. Same story, but different execution, and still completely freaky. Worth a look.
I really like both versions.
I'm happy that you have seen this masterpiece, I've watched it probably ten times in my life, every time I've seen it I do not consider it a waste of time. The central theme is how important human connections are, ultimately, and how love is of vital importance as well as how little time we have with each other, we all crumble into dust eventually, the acting is top-notch as well. The last scene is considered one of the most horrifying moments in movie history, the 70's is no joke when it comes to film quality, as Quentin Tarantino mentioned, and for good reason.
I was 8 where this came out. It left a lasting impression