Saturday Night Movie: Invasion of the Body Snatchers

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So sorry for no movie review last weekend. My brain needed a minor break from watching B films. This week I wanted to watch a classic film, and one that I had not seen before. After a few minutes browsing recommendations online, Invasion of the Body Snatchers seemed the obvious choice. How silly that in all my years I hadn’t see this until now. I sure am glad I did–this is a great one!

After returning home from a short holiday Dr. Miles Bennell finds that a number of people in town are acting quite peculiar. Around the same time Dr. Bennell is reunited with a former flame, Becky. Becky quickly realizes that her cousin Wilma is among those acting strange. Suddenly afraid of their Uncle Ira Wilma continues to go on about how “Uncle Ira isn’t Uncle Ira anymore”. It isn’t until late one night when Miles’ friend Jack calls him over to his house, that they realize the severity of what is going on in town. When Miles and Becky arrive at Jack’s house, he shows them a body he found. A body with no life, no expressions, and completely void of emotion. However it does have an eery resemblance to Jack. They soon discover that these creatures or “pod people” are replacing the humans for which they look like, and are completely unidentifiable other than their lack of emotions. Like all other films in this genre it soon becomes a race for two people to save the entire planet from these Body Snatchers.

This movie was a lot of fun to watch. The film was pretty fast paced, and unlike a lot of old movies–kept my attention throughout the entire film! The theme of this movie reminded me a lot of I Married a Monster from Outer Space, and when I was looking at the Wikipedia page for this film, they said the same thing. If you are just getting started on the B-movies, this would be a great place to start. Now I can’t wait to see all the remakes they did of this 1956 classic!