Fresh
Gives remakes a good name.
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
The seed is planted... terror grows.
1978 · 1h 56m · PG
Horror, Science Fiction
Directed by
Philip Kaufman
Overview
The residents of San Francisco are becoming drone-like shadows of their former selves, and as the phenomenon spreads, two Department of Health workers uncover the horrifying truth.
Director and cast
- Philip Kaufman Director
- Donald Sutherland as Dr. Matthew Bennell
- Brooke Adams as Elizabeth Driscoll
- Leonard Nimoy as Dr. David Kibner
- Veronica Cartwright as Nancy Bellicec
- Jeff Goldblum as Jack Bellicec
- Art Hindle as Dr. Geoffrey Howell, DDS
- Lelia Goldoni as Katherine Hendley
- Kevin McCarthy as Dr. Miles J. Bennell
- Don Siegel Cast
- Tom Luddy Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
92%
Tomatometer
Rotten
This film wants to have it both ways: to have a more urbane, more "important" scope than the original, and yet retain some of its inexpensive intimacy as well.
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine
Fresh
Invasion of the Body Snatchers validates the entire concept of remakes.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
Set at the intersection of post-Vietnam paranoia and the myopic introspection that became hippiedom's most lasting cultural contribution, the Philip Kaufman-directed Invasion alternates social commentary with impeccably crafted scares.
Keith Phipps, AV Club
Fresh
Ideas that Siegel knocked off in a few shots are expanded to fill entire sequences -- but they're good ideas, and can stand a little stretching.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
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