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
: the forbidden kingdom, get that on the list : ))
@@zeedevel7141 Yes that is a key point that must be pointed out.
This is one of the few movies that are truly unnerving to me. This, Come and see, Letters from A dead man, and Martyrs all give me that feeling.
Curious what you would think of the 90s adaptation, where they are on an army base. It's not as good imo, but still solid and has some moments worth seeing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
So happy that you finally watched this, the cinematography alone is so impressive. Great video
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 ♥️
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.
6:30 - the guy shouting "You're next!" is the lead actor from the original film (he shouted that at the end)
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😎
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
One of the first films I saw in a theater (in '78) where the ending actually sent a chill through me...
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.
What makes this reaction even better is knowing that Donald Sutherland in this movie is the father of Kiefer Sutherland in The Lost Boys.
Fitting for Horror Season, 1999 Japanese film "Audition" - "A widower takes an offer to screen girls at a special audition, arranged for him by a friend to find him a new wife. The one he fancies is not who she appears to be after all."
One of the best examples of uncanny horror laced with existential dread. So glad you got to watch this amazing film.
Most younger folks were born into a world with caller ID. One of the creepiest moments in the movie is when they know who is is even though he didn't give his name. That moment probably had no effect on the caller ID generations.
Loved your reaction!
This movie is phenomenal. I must say the version from the 90s (I believe 1993) is also worth a watch.
Sorry for multiposting but the abominación (a boxer with human mask) is my fav scene since i was a child... I can imagine all the staff laughing so hard when they put the mask on the dog... So hilarious and terrifying at same time!
My man. Getting in Early on the horror movies I see
Tis nearly the season of my favourite seasonal holiday. 😱
The guy beating on the car window at the first was Kevin McCarthy, who was the lead in the original movie
I forgot how great this remake it.
What I like about old school body horror movies like this is that they make you very uncomfortable, but the grossness isn't gratuitous--it has a purpose. I feel like that's something a lot of modern horror movies are lacking, where they just try to see how much blood and gore they can squeeze into that R rating before it hits NC-17. It can be fun, but it doesn't hold up under repeat views, IMHO. This film, for as old as it is, still looks great. The makeup effects have help up surprisingly well. And I forgot all about the dog lmao. Your reaction was priceless.
One of my favorite films! The Original is great but this is my favorite adaptation!
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.
Cases of people who couldn't fall asleep after watching the movie some for several weeks.
one of the best low budget movies ever made
Now you need to watch the original. Great reaction to a great sequel!
Need to check out the 1956 version now 😁
There's a remake in the 90s that while in no way is a classic, somehow does a good job in capturing the creepiness factor. It also features Forest Whitaker in a small role.
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.
You should check out the 1956 version...CLASSIC!!!
I feel like Veronica Cartwright got cast for Alien based on her performance in this...she does a great "terrified" look.
They're plants, just spray them with round-up weedkiller...lol.
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The original version is also absolutely great, maybe even better.
There are three versions of this film. The first, the 1956 black-and-white version, is also very scary and so well done! Totally worth a watch and for being so old is really an incredible film.
There's actually four versions.
Most people only really know the 50s one and this one. The others are kinda meh
@@rustincohle2135 Yes, you’re right! I forgot the one with Meg Tilly. That is definitely my least favorite
If you could watch this film 20 times then check out the original. Most people can't decide which one they like better.
Since this movie i always think about an alien Invasion exactly like this.
"Oh my gosh... you guys are freeloaders!" 😅
Thanks for confirming
Abel Ferrara (one of my fav directors he made plenty of controversial movies, DSK, Bad liutenant, New rose hotel, King of New York, Ms. 45.... Among others) remaked this one in Body Snatchers... Olivier Hirschbiegel aswell in The Invasion (with Daniel Craig and Nicole Botox Kidman) both worth watching but... This one is imho the BEST adaptation
The Abel Ferrara version is good! I don't like the Nicole Kidman version.....I don't know why they thought we needed a fourth version when the first three were so good, all held up, and two of them weren't even that long ago. But by then the only thing Hollywood knows how to do anymore is franchise and remake stuff it seems.
More SciFi than the original from the 50's that was a little more political *coughCommunismcough* and the perfect cameo by Kevin McCarthy 6:23 that joins the two versions perfectly.
oh, and you reacting to the Sutherland family: Kiefer Sutherland in The Lost Boys and Donald Sutherland in this. Perfect. 👍
Not sure if you’ve ever seen it but Edgar Wright’s The Worlds End is fantastic and would make a great double feature with this. Very similar premise except its a comedy.
Interesting that Jeff Goldbloom played in this and "The Fly," both of which are remakes of 1950's classics.
Another great remake is "War of the Worlds" starring Tom Cruise.
Donald Sutherland was great in the 1960s and 70s. Don't Look Now is a another classic horror and he was great MASH and Kelly's Heroes, two classic war comedies.
Very dark. One of the most scary in it's own way
Yooooo I had no idea Leonard Nimoy was in this!
6:25 - Kevin McCarthy, the star of the original 1956 version. Yup, I loved the twist away from the original at the ending...
I wish I could give this video an extra like for 'jive turkey.' xD
I LOVE Jeff too!!!!
The original film is still the best IMO.
Great movie. This and The Thing are my favorite paranoia films.
For comparison, you should watch the original. Still worth seeing.
Just yesterday you watched lost boys starring the son of the star of this movie.
You should definitely watch “the thing” super scary
Might I suggest Donald Sutherland in Klute 1971 . Donald brings it and then some. Jane Fonda co stars along with Donald....and she'll never be better. Great reaction James vs Cinema. Cheers!
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This is good and the black and white original is well worth watching as well. Treat yourself to both
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.
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...
"The craziest form of gentrification" should be the movie's new tagline.
Hahahaha right??
That was an absolutely inspired comment
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."
“Craziest gentrification ever” - you’ve absolutely nailed it
Completely dating myself, but I remember watching this as a kid and not wanting to go to sleep afterward. 😂
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.
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...
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.
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 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!!
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 would also think that Invasion of the body snatchers foreshadowed Nightmare on Elm Street specifically concerning the danger of falling asleep. Of course, the danger was different in each movie.
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.
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
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.
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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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
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.
This movie is so good!!! The best version for my taste! And I love it when we don't get a happy ending XD
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.
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!
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.
Young Kiefer Sutherland yesterday, Donald today. Great combo of classics.
Kiefer may be the bigger actor, but Don is definitely the daddy for me.
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.
Designed by the great Ben Burtt, the same guy in charge of Star Wars sounds.
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.
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.
The "You're next!" man is the star of the classic 50s version. Great cameo.
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...
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.
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.
18:52 "What is that abomination?!?!" 😂 That's the funniest thing. Oh man, I got light headed from laughing.
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.
This one is SUPER unsettling. One of my favorite versions of this story (although the original is also amazing). After you made your "uncut" comment (haha), all I could think was "nobody wants 'plant based' titties!" 🤣
@6:21 That's Kevin McCarthy who was the star from the original Body Snatchers movie (1956). Nice cameo and homage to the original
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.
The original was a parable for 1950's communism hysteria where people suspected their neighbors might be spies.
This update is much more of a true sci Fi film.
The final scene of this movie is SO. DAMN. GOOD.
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.
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.