![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Phil Kaufman's "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1978), inexplicably described by Pauline Kael as "the American movie of the year," was said to have something to do with Watergate and keeping tabs on those who are not like you. It was widely decoded as an attack on McCarthyism. How many references in the same movie can you have to the war in Iraq and not say anything about it?ĭon Siegel's classic "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1956) was about alien pods that arrived on Earth, sucked up the essence of human hosts and became duplicates of them - exact copies, except for what made them human. If the first three movies served as parables for their times, this one keeps shooting off parable rockets that fizzle out. Here is a great story born to be creepy, and the movie churns through it like a road company production. "The Invasion" is the fourth, and the least, of the movies made from Jack Finney's classic science fiction novel The Body Snatchers. ![]()
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