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What can a B-science-fiction film like "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1956) tell us about McCarthyism and the pressures to conform in the 1952's Cold War America?
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Is the movie "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1978)is it any good? Who stars in it? Is it worth buying on DVD? What was the plot of this movie? Was it a good movie or bad movie? Who all stars in this movie ? Did it win any awards or anything? How well did it do with movie critics and moviegoers?Is it worth buying on DVD ? Is there any nudity,swearing or violence in it?
You're on a 70s horror kitch aren't you?
You know the plot. Donald Sutherland and Lenard Nimoy are in it. It's very good (compared to Burnt Offerings). Of all the versions I've seen, I'd buy this one. Other than killing pod people, no violence, or nudity that I remember.
The original 1956 version or the remake in 1978. Some say the 1978 one is better but rarely is a remake better than the original. I haven't seen any and was wondering which one I should watch.
1956! No doubt about it!
as detailed as u possibly can..
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It's set in the fictional town of Santa Mira, California (actually shot in Sierra Madre, a town east of Pasadena), the plot centers on Dr. Miles Bennell (played by Kevin McCarthy), a local doctor, who finds a rash of patients accusing their loved ones of being impostors. Another patient is an old flame, recent divorcee Becky Driscoll (Dana Wynter), who tells him that her cousin has this same strange fear.
Assured at first by the town psychiatrist (Dr. Dan Kaufman, played by Larry Gates) that the cases are nothing but "epidemic mass hysteria," Bennell soon discovers, with the help of his friend Jack Belicec (King Donovan), that the townspeople really are being replaced by simulations grown from plantlike pods, perfect physical duplicates who kill and dispose of their human victims. The Pod People are indistinguishable from normal people except for their utter lack of emotion. The pod people work together to secretly spread more pods—which grew from "seeds drifting through space for years"—in order to replace the entire human race.
The film climaxes with Bennell and Driscoll attempting to escape the pod people, fleeing to warn the rest of humanity. (The scenario of a hero trying to escape from an isolated town where he has learned that the inhabitants are not truly human is reminiscent of the plot of H. P. Lovecraft's "The Shadow Over Innsmouth.") They hide, but Driscoll falls asleep and is taken over. The scene when Bennell kisses her and realizes the truth is startling.
The film was originally intended to end with a seemingly crazy Bennell standing in a highway watching truckloads of pods passing and screaming desperately to unheeding motorists, "You're next!"
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