Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978 123movies

Watch: Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1978 123movies, Full Movie Online – The first remake of the paranoid infiltration classic moves the setting for the invasion from a small town to the city of San Francisco and starts as Matthew Bennell notices that several of his friends are complaining that their close relatives are in some way different. When questioned later they themselves seem changed as they deny everything or make lame excuses. As the invaders increase in number they become more open and Bennell, who has by now witnessed an attempted “replacement” realises that he and his friends must escape or suffer the same fate. But who can he trust to help him and who has already been snatched?.
Plot: Matthew Bennell notices that several of his friends are complaining that their close relatives are in some way different. When questioned later they themselves seem changed, as they deny everything or make lame excuses. As the invaders increase in number they become more open and Bennell, who has by now witnessed an attempted ‘replacement’, realises that he and his friends must escape or suffer the same fate.
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	7.4/10 Votes: 61,561
	92% | RottenTomatoes
	75/100 | MetaCritic
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Reviews:

When San Francisco is invaded by pod-people

RELEASED IN 1978 and directed by Philip Kaufman, “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” stars Donald Sutherland and Brooke Adams as friends, Matthew and Elizabeth, who work at the Health Department in San Francisco. They increasingly suspect that people are somehow being duplicated and trace the problem to alien plant pods. Leonard Nimoy plays Matthew’s pop psychologist friend while Jeff Goldblum & Veronica Cartwright are on hand as a couple who run a mudbath parlour.

This could be viewed as a sequel rather than a remake. The entries in the series are as follows: “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” (1956); “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” (1978); “Body Snatchers” (1993); and “The Invasion” (2007).

The first one is in Black & White and is probably too dated and tame for most modern viewers, but it’s still worthwhile; it takes place in small town, California. This 1978 sequel switches the setting to the big city. The 1993 movie shifts to an army base in the deep south while the 2007 version switches back to the big city of Washington DC.

This rendition has a peculiar tone with a lot of the events taking place at night. There’s a subdued eerie and dreary air with paranoia morphing into conspiratorial and then ghastly reality. The 70’s atmosphere and cast are highlights, as is the score with its unnerving pieces. Brooke Adam’s has exquisitely sculptured facial features (eyes, nose, lips, teeth, chin, cheeks and forehead). The creepy pod-birthing sequence in the garden is cogently done.

THE MOVIE RUNS 1 hour, 55 minutes and was shot in San Francisco. WRITER: W.D. Richter.

GRADE: B

Still one of the best alien invasion movies that exists. The newer ones tend to be about how many guns and explosions are needed to defeat the invaders, this one is a little different and has a strong cast and many moments of suspense that keep you interested. The dialog is perhaps weak in places and some areas do tend to drag at the start of the movie but thats all overcome later by the convincing characters and ever intriguing plot. It starts slow paced and almost doesn’t give you enough information to work out exactly whats going on leaving it up to your paranoia and imagination to fill the void, this begins to change the movie into more of a horror with a scifi plot. The totally unforgettable ending will send chills down your spine and is one of the best cinematic endings I have ever seen. If you’re all alone, at midnight and in the dark then stick it on but don’t fall asleep…

As Good If Not Better Than The Original Because of the Characters and razor-sharp Dialogue
Let me start out by saying that I am very fond of the original movie of 1956. But the biggest difference between the two films is the handling of the characters and the use of camera angles that ring of film noir. The characters of the 1956 offering are just a little bit generic. Dr Miles Bennell is an “ordinary” doctor in an ordinary town. Handsome and amiable, he does seem a bit “typical”. The two couples that become the main focus are a little bit less defined, which was true of B-movie horror/SF flicks of the 1940’s and 1950’s in which the horror of the plot trumped character development. By the 1970’s, horror had to some degree become more mainstream, and character development became nearly as important as the shock value in some of the higher-budgeted offerings. “Rosemary’s Baby” and “The Exorcist” come to mind.

The four characters of the 1978 film are quite distinctive individuals. Matthew Bennell (played by Donald Sutherland and essentially the equivalent character to Miles Bennell) is a bureaucratic FDA inspector who gets his car windshield smashed when he tags a restaurant for sub-standard quality. His best friend is Elizabeth Driscoll (Brook Adams) who is a fun-loving woman with a rye sense of humor and married to a sports fanatic.

Both of the Jack Bellicec characters are writers, although in the 1978 offering, Jeff Goldblum’s take on the role is as a very frustrated writer/poet who is jealous of the likes of Dr. David Kibner (Leonard Nimoy), pop-psychologist, writer and lecturer. Jack attends one of Kibner’s lectures and book-signings. Nimoy plays his character to the hilt, acting like he has the answer to all people’s problems. Goldblum at one point says “His ideas are garbage. Pure garbage.” response: “How can you say that about a man like Kibner?” Goldblum: “Not a man like Kibner. I’m saying it about Kibner.” We never find out what the character wrote about in the 1956 offering. Nancy Bellicec played by the incomparable Veronica Cartwright in the newer offering becomes a much more important character than in the 1956 film. She’s the one, not Bennell, who realizes how to fool the “snatched” people by exhibiting no emotions. She has one of the best lines when she says “Well why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?

Their lives start to fall apart when Elizabeth Driscoll claims her husband Geoffrey is not her husband. Before he is snatched, he is an amiable guy who enjoys watching sports events with headphones to hear the announcers. After he’s snatched, all he watches on the television is a video of a stop-watch, as if for him life has stopped, and he’s just marking time. She recounts to Sutherland how she followed him and that he was meeting all these strange people. Sutherland encounters others with similar dilemmas, particularly an older Asian couple who own a Laundromat. The older man claims “she not my wife.” The build-up in the 1978 offering is a little slower and more deliberate.

Jack’s wife, Nancy Bellicec (Cartwright), discovers a duplicate body of Jack in a back room of their mud bath. At first the body seems to have almost no detail. But gradually it begins to look like Goldblum. Is there any connection with this body and this epidemic of people claiming that their loved ones are not their loved ones? In a particularly brilliant if not disturbing sequence, Bennell tries to call some of his contacts in the US government. The camera angles work well to literally dizzying affect as Bennell begins to realize the snatchers have infiltrated the government.

An incredible take on Jack Finney’s original novel about the horror of losing one’s identity to an emotionless collective, sort of akin to what it would be like to have to spend eternity with either Jehovah Witnesses or Beaurocrats! You are no longer you but simply a clone among the collective, a terrifying thought.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 55 min (115 min)
Budget 3500000
Revenue 24946533
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Horror, Sci-Fi
Director Philip Kaufman
Writer W.D. Richter, Jack Finney
Actors Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Jeff Goldblum
Country United States
Awards 3 wins & 10 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (prints), DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length 3,100 m (Italy), 3,165 m (Sweden)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (4K) (2021 remaster), Dolby Vision, Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm