Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978): The Remake That Out-Dreads the Original

Mon, 08 Apr 2024 09:00:00 +0000

Almost every remake is a downgrade, a cover version that reminds you why you loved the original. Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Philip Kaufman’s 1978 reworking of Don Siegel’s 1956 classic, is the rare exception that improves on a film already considered perfect. It keeps the pods, keeps the premise, keeps the creeping dread, and then does the two things the original could not: it lets the horror off the leash — no studio to blunt the ending — and it moves the whole nightmare from a small town to a big city, where nobody notices that everyone around them has stopped being human because nobody was really looking at anybody in the first place.

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978): The Remake That Out-Dreads the Original