In San Francisco everyone can hear Veronica Cartwright scream. In the ultimate urban nightmare, to sleep is to die, to be replaced by a soulless alien duplicate. Less a remake of the 1956 classic of the same name, more a fresh vision of Jack Finney's source novel, Invasion of the Body Snatchers is the archetypal story of humans supplanted by unemotional "vegetable pods". A masterstroke is the introduction of SF icon Leonard Nimoy as a very West Coast relationships guru determined to explain everything in terms of urban psychological alienation, and the story does prove more unsettling on the big city's forbidding streets. This is very much an ensemble movie, with outstanding performances from Donald Sutherland and Brooke Adams, and what proved to be the first of several key genre roles for Jeff (The Fly, Jurassic Park, Independence Day) Goldblum. With minimal effects and very little gore, but filled with unnerving camera angles and a underpinned by a chillingly effective score, the film is relentlessly suspenseful, culminating in a sequence of terrifying set-pieces and a truly spine-tingling finale.
SPECIAL FEATURES - Audio Commentary by Director Philip Kaufman
- Original Theatrical Trailer
ITEM SPECIFICS
Region: 2 - Europe (PAL), Japan (NTSC), South Africa, Middle East Rating: 15 Year: 1978 Duration: 111 minutes Label: MGM Ratio: Widescreen Cast: Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Jeff Goldblum, Veronica Cartwright, Leonard Nimoy, Art Hindle, Lelia Goldoni, Kevin McCarthy, Don Siegel & Robert Duvall
Language: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish Subtitles: English, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish - English and German for the hearing impaired
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