Invasion of The Body Snatchers: An Analysis (1978)
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RIP Donald Sutherland
Don't hit me with them negative waves so early in the morning
@@ericb4127 Lets just hit that bank😎
I forgot that was him in the meme until he passed away.
Donald Sutherland, Officer of the Order of Canada.
Initially thought Dave had just bought the Arrow Video 4K and fancied reviewing it. Then I read the above comment and was reminded of the sad news from a few days ago.
This is my favourite of the four adaptations thanks to its performances and sound design
Today, the movie would be called “Invasion Of The Woke.”
What the hell does that even mean
Today the pod-people are an analogy for Trans-people.
No it wouldn't! 🙄
The last 4 years were a real world version of the body snatchers. People were systematically turned into NPCs
IT would be "Invasion Of The Extremes" as both the left and the right have their crazies that grew way too popular the past few years.
That dog with the human mask on scared a generation of us.
still creepy to this day, knowing its coming
100%
i'm 55 year old. i saw that when i was 9 years old. snuck into the theater to see it. still sticks with me.
another sci-fi horror that sticks with me is the SPACE: 1999 episode "Dragon's Domain".
@@jaythompson01I completely agree. The _'Dragon's Domain'_ episode is indeed a "nightmare fuel" episode when seen at a young age.
@@pauld6967 young age...ha ha ha...
i re-watched it last month. been wearing cobalt blue sunglasses, leaving every door open and my Mossberg 590A1 is complaining about how we need to "see other people".
This was the first movie I've ever seen that destroyed my childhood belief that all movies have a happy ending... LOL
Happy endings are so boring. You have to have your canister twisted to make you feel you’ve seen a great movie.
The last 40+ years have been like watching Invasion of the Body Snatchers in slow motion; the long march through the institutions, the development of PC/Woke, Government’s deployment of behavioural science strategies and so on; everywhere you turn, the mind snatchers have been there before you. Feels rather more like the remake than the original, now right near the end scene. I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that the remake was an early stab at predictive programming.
Nice analogy
musk said it best "woke mind virus"
Our bodies regenerate every 7 years, which is why it's important to eat well. These "fruiting bodies" did it in an external pod in about 7 minutes, if that. So the invaders lured everyone in with a pretty flower (or pornography, booze, free lunch, free collage, etc. ), stepped in and took over all institutions on earth and now "remake the world in their image". Hmmm this plot sounds familiar!
This used to be about the Red Menace, but now when I watch this movie I relate it to Wokeness and Equity Culture.
He said the N-Word *Raises hand and points while screeching at the offender*
It is about the communist takeover, now viewed from six decades on.
The opening move of a public cancelling has been anatomized as "Step 1: Point and Shriek". It fits.
Once again, my civil and respectful reply comment has been deleted by YT though the algorithm continues to alert me.
@@M-S_4321 YT are part of the police state/body snatchers.
Well some say wokery (cultural Marxism) was Encouraged by the USSR through American leftist progressive movements during the cold war
Rejected the modern world not because it modern but because it is evil
Indeed. People were sold the utopian dream that consuming stuff and having lots of stuff would make them happy. It made the manufacturers happy and rich while making the people broke and miserable.
Try having nothing instead and see if you're happier. Hint: you won't be
@@docsavage8640
The truth is always in the middle.
Now, the "body snatchers" are woke.
The left are the pod people.
And "vaccinated".
I'd argue that it's anyone who falls into "woke"/"anti woke" or "right/left" etc. divides.
Look at all the "anti wokes" championing reform party, ran by folk who championed COVID measures vaccines and supported making tony Blair a vaccine tzar.......
@@michaelzell5905Good one 🤣
I always find it ironic that Nimoy's character is basically turned into Mr. Spock as a villain.
Fascinating
And he didn't need to wear a goatee, this time!
@@atomicninjaduck9200Though I agree with McCoy that it looked good on him! 🖖😎👍
He also played an invading Martian in the 1952 movie serial, Zombies of the Stratosphere. More than a decade before Spock. "Good" serial if you like those kind of things. The third and last "Rocket Man" serials.
RIP
Donald Sutherland.
That movie always comes to mind when i see wokies react to something plainly herero.
That's a perfect and relatable comparison.
Go read a book called the forever war, as the book progresses, heterosexuality is seen as a disease meant to be cured and if you cant be cured off it you get sent to a jail planet.
I like to think of this being in continuity with the original and it's the same guy running around screaming ''they're here!''.
I get the Donald Sutherland point and screech every time I disagree with a woke person.
Masterpiece of a movie
They live…?
@@SilverFoxUK87 ohh fantastic, love Roddy piper
Really creepy movie that I only needed to see once.
Hard to believe that Sutherland never got nominated for an Oscar, as commanding as he was.
R.I.P Donald Sutherland. Despite being a film fan all my life, and a collector since my early 20's, i didn't see this film until i was 33. But my god did it stay with me after. An utter masterpiece. The fact that no matter what our heroes do, theirs, and humanity's fate is doomed. Such a bleak ending.... but i would not change it..
It would take something from outside humanity to save it. Hmmm.... *grins
Leonard Nimoy playing an emotionless alien...
Go figure! ✌️🤠
It's funny how The Faculty references the book.
I could not understand how people couldn't see that until it was specifically pointed out to them.
This movie blew me away when i was a kid
I’d prefer the pod person version of San Francisco depicted in this movie to the current day version of it.
You don't like junkies and feces everywhere? That's "progressive." You must be a right-wing extremist.
There are people in real life that kinda make Me think they have been body snatch.
Yeah my ex
No. They just don't have a soul. They never did
@@mooseyman74 Women are crazy.
@@GrosvnerMcaffrey Thats deep.
The very minute my wife signed the marriage certificate
I remember that DOG with a human head - Which freak me out!!!!!!!!!!!
It has such an eerie atmosphere.
The almost constant ever growing sound of the usually unseen garbage trucks going about their matter of fact business collecting and crushing dried out husks that were formally living human beings.
One of the three great remakes with The Thing and The Fly. This is one of the few horror films that maintains an atmosphere of dread and unease with only a few moments of humor to ease the tension.
Plant;”I identify as a human!”
Sums up the West, from 2020
From 1913 at the latest.
This excellent 1978 documentary film thoroughly explains current-day California politics.
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers is my favorite Donald Sutherland movie! It’s easily my second favorite of 1978 after John Carpenter’s Halloween. I’ll always miss him but also enjoy his performance as Matthew Bennell. “How do you know my name? I didn’t tell you my name!”. So creepy and bone chilling. A real classic.
The film that introduced me to Mr. Sutherland, and a damn good one for a remake! The first of many films with him. Such a talent with lots of range. RIP, good Sir.🌹
I did a fresh download and re-watch of this movie just a couple weeks ago, not knowing we would be losing Donald Sutherland so recently. So there's a whole batch of movies I'm re-watching this week in his honor. Thank you sir for all your fine work, and for scaring the bejesus out of us with that pod-person shriek at the end.
Ukraine is a corrupt shithole
Donald Sutherland, Officer of the Order of Canada.
Thank you so much for your contribution to the country, and for making us all proud. You are dearly missed.
This is a great one. So many levels to it that hold up. Fun fact: In that scene with the dog hybrid, the dog sticking its tongue through the mouth hole of the mask was a complete accident. I imagine the director did backflips when they caught that during the take!
The 1956 movie is a gem. The 1978 movie is a gem. The book is a gem. A rare occurrence.
What are your thoughts on the 1993 version?
It seems to exist in my mind only as a reminder of how good the others are.
Except for it having a female protagonist and being set on a military base, I can't remember much more.
@@gameofjones4644 I saw it once. Can't remember any of it
@@gameofjones4644Liked it a lot, especially Meg Tilly's performance.
Pretty dark as well.
Saw it in the theater.
Can't believe Donald is dead
Always with the negative waves man.
At least he was alive for a good while.
@@Fred-gu6pk Yep....All the roles he played and Oddball was the greatest. He was so damn unique and funny in that film. Every single scene he is in he steals it, his expressions on his face and way he delivers the lines....
" To a New Yorker like you Crapgame, a Hero is some weird type of Sandwich!"
As a kid I did not get that at all, as an adult it had me on the floor laughing...
Did anyone ever watch the puppet masters)
Agreed, old black and white horror tends to have a full fledged story and themes. Modern horror is always trying to be all jump scares, or only cares about atmosphere.
It’s invasion of A.I. Now…are those “people” on teams real…?
Your analysis is on point imo.
The lifestyle that is promoted by most societies in the world (that does not just mean western society), does not have our (human) best interest in mind, but to sustain each respective society itself (be it a government, or some sort of market). Let's face it working at one or more jobs for the most time of the day, driving a car in traffic, constantly arguing with others and living in a city among thousands or even millions of other people, is not our (human) natural environment.
Our bodies may tolerate this stress for a couple of years, but our minds start to deteriorate without us even noticing, by the constant chase after money, popularity and fear (which is promoted by all sorts of media we consume).
We are not supposed live, we are trained to be machines, programmed to keep our societies running.
Sorry for the rant, lol.
My comment before I watch.. I recently thought that the end scene when he seemed to be one of them. I think he just conformed to the group to fit in. Very similar to real society. And even was willing to destroy the only other like him to survive.
ERm....so how did he do the Alien scream? Like did he practice? There is no way he could scream like that unless he was now one of them.
I first saw this version as a kid when it was on Tv , I must have been about ten or eleven....And I was totally confused and let down by what was going on. To me it made no sense. One minute they are on the run, the woman gets changed, he escapes and he is under a pier or something and some of the crowd are looking for him . And one of them brags how they will find him...and it sort of fades out. And then the world seems back to normal, and he is walking and up comes Veronica and she goes to talk to him and he turns and does the point and scream....And it ends. And I am sitting there as a kid going EH? I dont get it!?!?
Years later as an adult when I saw it again it scared the pants off me and I totally understood. We lose. He is dead and an alien now and that is it. No happy ending. The hero has lost, and nothing is going to get put right or be the same again. All that struggle was for nothing. It was a clear demonstration of how life is futile and we all die in the end no matter what we do. Truly depressing and grim.
The original movie was supposed to end with the invasion ongoing, but the studio mandated a happy ending at the last minute.
The third adaptation has a bummer of a finale as well. The fourth 2012 (?) version I honest can barely remember.
@@UranusMcVitieFish-yd7oq IT has a happy ending, the Daniel Craig one. The aliens are defeated and the people changed are brought back and ok again. Its utterly bereft of atmosphere and there was no way they would have dared to do a bleak ending like that now....
Me and my sister still do that 🫨🫵🏻 look to each other 😂
😆
Lol, when I heard of his passing that ‘look’ was what popped up in my mind. One of those guys like Clint we take for granted that they will always be around 😣
I love this film .
God, that face (and sound) Donald makes at the end still turns my blood to ice.
RIP
Well aren't we living in it now. I liked both but I like the og one just a little better.
Some interesting tidbits: Kevin McCarthy wasn't the only cameo in the movie; Don Siegel, the director of the original (and subsequent director of many Clint Eastwood films) _also_ had a cameo (as a cab driver.) And if you look _real_ fast, you can even see Robert Duvall (as a priest on a public-park swing.)
The "hopeful" ending of the original '50s version was actually _not_ how it was intended. Originally, the film was supposed to end with McCarthy's character standing in the middle of the road, yelling "They're coming! They're coming!" (and everyone ignoring him.) But the studio didn't like the ending, didn't want the movie to end on a downer, so without Siegel's approval or involvement, they brought back McCarthy to film that tacked-on "hopeful" ending that appears in the finished film.
Over the years the original '50s film has been called an "allegory of the McCarthy Era Red-scare," but ironically the author of the original never intended it as such. In fact he spent the rest of his life disclaiming that & insisting that his story had nothing whatever to do with politics. But...nobody listened & the claim ended up taking on a life of its own, which continues to this day...
Oh wow! That answers a question I have had for decades! I first saw this version as a kid. It was on tv here in the Uk and it was a Saturday night movie, it cant have been too long after it was originally released, probably about 1980 as my Grandparents were still alive and baby sitting my brother and I as my parents used to go out on a Saturday night. So the continuity announcer comes on to tell us the movie coming up is Invasion of the Body Snatchers etc, then at the end of his spiel he says - ""Watch the Taxi driver!"
So we all sat there and watched the film together. The Taxi scene comes and goes and all he does is talk to them. And they leave etc....Its like we expected him to glow green or pull a gun or do something weird or unusual. And all he does is drive the taxi. After the film we all looked at one another and the first thing we say is "Well the Taxi driver didn't do anything!!! What were we supposed to watch him for??" and we had this big debate about it etc...
And now all these years later it turns out he was the original director of the original film...humph! Well we could never have known that. Stupid announcer could have said - " Watch out for the Taxi driver! He was the director of the original film"
Or something like it....What a let down! Heh...oh well...Thats a 44 year old question answered at last...thanks!
@@Simon-xc5oy Yeah, you're right; I'm surprised they didn't mention that, like maybe at the end of the movie or something, or the next time they did a commercial-break or whatever... I'd expect the announcer to say something like, "That cab-driver? That was the director of the original 50s version!" or something.
I always felt like the 2005 show Invasion was an attempt at doing that story for modern audiences, which at the time meant something different than it does now. It didn't last very long, but it wasn't a half bad show.
Always entertained by your content, it's awesome!
My East Asian Religions professor hated how "mindfulness" basically got extracted from Buddhist teachings by corporations in order to numb workers into subservience.
Mindfulness without proper guidance makes people into robots.
Also, Kevin McCarthy is a great actor. He's great in the original film AND in UHF!
Very powerful movie; saw it when it came out (though probably too young to; I thought it was just going to basically be a version of the TV show Invaders, and my father vouched for it as just an old "Martians" movie). I think it was one of the first 100% unhappy ending movie I'd ever seen ( until then being the Planet of the Apes' 1st two sequels, but they didn't leave me as creeped out). Yet there still was something about. And it's aged very well for me. But, I do wish even now still wish we could've seen Nemoy as more of a protagonist, but then that's a Trek fan for you.
Bought a copy of this last week, 2 days before Sutherland passed. RIP.
My mom took me to see this film when it came out. I was eight at the time. I was probably too young but I really liked it. Still remember going to the theater that afternoon. This is one of my favorite films.
That part about soulless and spiritually dead is dead on. So many walking around latched on to materialism or causes as a way to try to fill that emptiness ... talk about pod people or zombies!
Long live the Star Wars Holiday Special!
Saw it in the theater when it was released.
That ending.
😳
Great score by Denny Zeitlin.
One of the great films of the 70's and it holds up beautifully.
One of the few remakes that excelled the original, IMO.
Great late 70s horror flick. Unparalleled in creating an unsettling atmosphere, shot in such away that it makes the viewer feel less like they're watching a horror movie than a documentary about the final days of the human race.
fantastic review... would be interested in seeing more of your takes on these classic films
This was one of the best videos I've ever seen on this channel 🤩🙌
The best of all the versions and scared the pants off me when I was a teenager and saw it for the first time!
Love both versions but find the 78 version more memorable.
Loved the part of your analysis that talks about modern consumer living. More people need to understand this.
The 1978 version is one of my favourite movies. The ending was like a punch in the gut. I loved it.
I just watched this movie last night, one of my all time favorites ive seen it a dozen times or so. last night my wife first time seeing, she loved it.
too bad they make good movies anymore, everything now is a remake, sequel, or prequel.....or some gay woke garbage!
Did you watch the 90's version?
@@anubusx no the 78 version. I remember seeing at the drive in when I was 11
Finally gave this a watch after seeing your thumbnail in my sub feed (and just watched your video now). Thanks for the reminder/push. Movie did not disappoint.
There's honestly only a handful of remakes / new adaptations that have either matched the quality of the original or surpasses it. The Thing is one and this is another.
Yes. The the thing about this Bodysnatchers film is its a remake without really being a remake. Its the same reason why the Thing remake works so well. In that the story ideas are the same. But everything else is different to the point where its almost a totally different movie, its the interpretation and execution of the ideas that makes it almost a parallel version from another universe in one sense. The Thing is set in a base at the pole with an alien creature discovered. But that is where its similarities between it and the original end. The original film is a typical 50s lumbering monster movie, where as the 80s version is gull on horror, gore, terror, paranoia and mistrust and is created and written totally differently. The original 50s Bodysnatchers film has that cosy pipe and slippers feel to it. The 78 version is totally different in atmosphere and creeping dread, with the whole thing feeling far more futile and hopeless, with more despair and depression and horror...When you throw in the downer shock ending it becomes its own version that is as much a product of its time in the 70s as the 50s version was....
Everyone I grew up with who understood simple things like what a man or woman is, has seemingly been replaced by a pod person who acts as though their insane new beliefs are completely normal things that they always thought. I feel like one of the last humans still out here.
So do I. 👋
"Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?"
"I never expected metal ships."
Jeff Goldblum and Nancy Cartwright were such standout characters.
This, imo, is among your best videos Mr. Cullen. Thank you.
Donald Sutherland, Veronica Cartwright and Leonard Nimoy are all fantastic in this and Jeff Goldblum is superb as ever.
I find it interesting how the original movie is about the slow creep of communism and how if you allow them to infiltrate, eventually they reach a critical mass and "go loud" and you cant really stop them.
But then the remake is interpreted as the exact opposite
as someone suffering from sleep deprivation this movie for some reason could never be scary ...
Great analysis! Thank you!
I always enjoy your analysis of older films. It's helped me branch out to older films. The part about modern psychiatry was particularly good.
This was not an invasion, it was assimilation.
People being replaced with inhuman duplicates in San Francisco.
Now, that could never happen - could it?
I always viewed this movie as.a societal scale version of The Thing.
Absolutely. Old school horror is closer to suspense and thus better for not showing details, and letting you make it in your mind.
Would love to see your take on Upgrade(2018), which is a scifi film that's actually about possession.
Very good and thoughtful analysis. I was impressed.
Watched this as a kid, I'm 43 now and the ending still scares the shit out of me lol
6:35 - Part of this trope is trying to examine what makes us different from those soulless counterparts. Scifi writers don't typically believe in the human soul, so they are trying to earnestly examine whether or not there is any meaningful difference between a human and an automaton.
Tight analysis and work as usual, Cheers.
Thanks - another great analysis.
An actual good video from Dave. I guess it can happen from time to time.
saw the movie about five years ago. Thought it was amazing. Good acting and practical effects. Fantastic.
Very good analysis!
Smart review. Thank you.
Watched the original,50s,The Thing.... Brilliant. TCM.... Love this gradual build up in Horror/Sc-Fi...
I love these classic works of cinema, for the story, characters and practical effect work. You should check out ‘the Howling’, ‘American Werewolf in London’ and ‘the Lost Boys’ (just for having Donald Sutherland’s son Keith in it). Split Second is also really amazing and never gets the respect or attention it deserves.
Your take on psychiatry is quite profound and inspiring, completely agree
"That not my wife!"
Excelent analisys!
Thanks Dave
I've really liked this movie since I first saw it, and the cast was top notch, such great names to see together. The original is also good and worth a watch.
Now, I like to hear your take on the second re-make of this film - "Body Snatchers" - from 1994. I actually liked that one, as well as the first two.
It seems this movie is re-made every 20 years!
1978 version is the best imo
I feel like the difference between the endings of each version speaks heavily to the eras in which they were made. In the 1950s there was a lot of fear, but also a lot of optimism, while in the 1970s, especially toward the end of the decade, the Cold War fear was still there, but most of the optimism was gone.
Donald was hilarious in Space Cowboys. I hope to be like that character when I'm that old😂
Fantastic review.
The blonde lady is the kid from Alfred Hitchcock's, The Birds.
😎👍
She was also in Alien.
Though I prefer the ending of the original film, both are great in their own way. Another great commentary from Mr. Cullen!
A timely occasion to watch this fantastic movie as we just lost the brilliant Donald Sutherland and this is one of his classics.