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Philip Kaufman directed this stylish remake of the film, which moves the action to San Francisco where (as I post below in "Vertigo") the city becomes another character. Doonald Sutherland is a Public Health Officer who gradually becomes aware that people all around him are changing. He allies himself with a co-worker (Brooke Adams) and a couple of friends (Jeff Goldbloom and Veronica Cartwright) to try to outrun those who've been "snatched" but with limited success. Kevin McCarthy from the 1958 classic has a clever cameo. Leonard Nimoy is excellent as a psychiatrist supposedly treating those who think that the snatchers are afoot. The film has a great surprise ending.
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I think "Days of Heaven" was released before this.
The remake missed the essential quality the original had - the "aliens" were just subtly different in the original. Uncle Joe was just not Uncle Joe anymore but there was an inexpressible difference.In the remake, we have a beer guzzling rabid sports fan husband turn into a lackadaisical drone. That aspect of the remake sorely misses the essence of what is frightening.
Even your recently reviewed "Fallen" was hip to that . That's why I'll always prefer the original Invasion.
This one above all was truely creepy. paranoid and ominous.
But the original still has its charms for me. The second remake was poor.
i think there is a fourth version floating aroun somewhere. Why?
...ending than the one which ended up in theatrical release. The studio imposed a "happy" conclusion, rather than the one Don Siegel preferred. Siegel's version ends the film with McCarthy running in traffic screaming hysterical warnings. The Kaufman version was definitely superior in the fright department.
Yes, when I run the 1956 version I eliminate the scene in the clinic and jump right to the train arriving bearing the doctor. At the end I end it with the McCarthy on the road sequence. That's why the McCarthy cameo in the Kaufman film is so effective, it's like he ran all the way to San Francisco.
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