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The Body Snatchers
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Author
Jack Finney
Country
United States
Language
English
Genre
Science fiction novel
Publisher
Dell Books

Publication date
 1955
Media type
Print (Hardback)
Pages
191 pp
OCLC
7148659
The Body Snatchers is a 1955 science fiction novel by Jack Finney, originally serialized in Colliers Magazine in 1954, which describes the town of Mill Valley, California, being invaded by seeds that have drifted to Earth from space. The seeds replace sleeping people with perfect physical duplicates grown from plantlike pods, while their human victims turn to dust.
The duplicates live only five years, and they cannot sexually reproduce; consequently, if unstopped, they will quickly turn Earth into a dead planet and move on to the next world. One of the duplicate invaders suggests that this is what all humans do; use up resources, wipe out indigenous populations, and destroy ecosystems in the name of survival.
The novel has been adapted for the screen four times; the first film in 1956, the second in 1978, the third in 1993, and the most recent in 2007. Unlike two of the film adaptations, the novel contains an optimistic ending, with the aliens voluntarily vacating after deciding that they cannot tolerate the type of resistance they see in the main characters.


Contents  [hide]
1 Critical reception
2 Editions 2.1 First edition
2.2 Revised edition
3 Film adaptations
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

Critical reception[edit]
In 1967, Damon Knight criticized the novel's scientific incoherence...[1]

The seed pods, says Finney, drifted across interstellar space to Earth, propelled by light pressure. This echoes a familiar notion, the spore theory of Arrhenius. But the spores referred to are among the smallest living things - small enough to be knocked around by hydrogen molecules...In confusing these minute particles with three-foot seed pods, Finney invalidates his whole argument - and makes ludicrous nonsense of the final scene in which the pods, defeated, float up into the sky to hunt another planet.
...and its crude plot development:

Almost from the beginning, the characters follow the author's logic rather than their own. Bennell and his friends, intelligent and capable people, exhibit an invincible stupidity whenever normal intelligence would allow them to get ahead with the mystery too fast. When they have four undeveloped seed pods on their hands, for instance, they do none of the obvious things -- make no tests, take no photographs, display the objects to no witnesses. Bennell, a practicing physician, never thinks of X-raying the pods.
Under Jack Finney's entry in The Science Fiction Encyclopedia, John Clute remarks concerning the novel:[2]

Horrifyingly depicts the invasion of a small town by interstellar spores that duplicate human beings, reducing them to dust in the process; the menacing spore-people who remain symbolize, it has been argued, the loss of freedom in contemporary society. Jack Finney's further books are slickly told but less involving.
Galaxy reviewer Groff Conklin faulted the original edition, declaring that "Too many s-f novels lack outstanding originality, but this one lacks it to an outstanding degree."[3] Anthony Boucher found it to be "intensely readable and unpredictably ingenious" despite noticeable inconsistencies and its sometimes lack of scientific accuracy.[4] P. Schuyler Miller reported that, once Finney sets out his premise, the novel becomes "a straight chase yarn, with several nice gimmicks and a not entirely convincing denouement."[5]
Editions[edit]
First edition[edit]
Finney, Jack (c. 1955). The Body Snatchers. Dell.
Revised edition[edit]
Finney, Jack (c1954, 1955, 1978). Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Revised and updated ed.). New York: Dell.
Film adaptations[edit]
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Body Snatchers (1993)
The Invasion (2007)
See also[edit]
"The Body Snatcher" (1884), a short story by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson
The Puppet Masters (1951), a science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein in which a trio of American government agents attempts to thwart a covert invasion of Earth by mind-controlling alien parasites
It Came From Outer Space (1953), based on a Ray Bradbury story, involves an alien invasion wherein humans are duplicated by the aliens
Contamination (1980) a science fiction horror film that revisits parts of the novel.
The Father-thing (December 1954), a short story by Philip K. Dick, appearing in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, uses the ideas of pods duplicating humans and fire being the means of destroying the pods
Invasion of the Pod People (2007), a mockbuster film from The Asylum intended to coincide with the premiere of the 2007 film The Invasion
The Host (2008), a novel by Stephenie Meyer that depicts a world wherein the human population has already been taken over by parasitic aliens
The Puppet Masters (1994), a science fiction film based on the Robert A. Heinlein novel
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Knight, Damon (March 1967). "Half-Bad Writers". In Search of Wonder (2nd ed.). Chicago: Advent. pp. 72–75. ISBN 0-911682-15-5.
2.Jump up ^ Clute, John (1979). The Science Fiction Encyclopedia. New York: Doubleday & Co, Inc. ISBN 0-385-13000-7.
3.Jump up ^ "Galaxy's 5 Star Shelf", Galaxy Science Fiction, July 1955, p.92
4.Jump up ^ "Recommended Reading," F&SF, May 1955, pp.71.
5.Jump up ^ Miller, P. Schuyler. "The Reference Library," Astounding Science-Fiction, September 1955, pp.151-52.
External links[edit]
The Body Snatchers title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
Cinefantastique book review
Critique of book to filmed versions


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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 film)
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
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Movie poster by Bill Gold

Directed by
Philip Kaufman
Produced by
Robert H. Solo
Screenplay by
W. D. Richter
Based on
The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney
Starring
Donald Sutherland
Brooke Adams
Leonard Nimoy
Jeff Goldblum
Veronica Cartwright

Music by
Denny Zeitlin
Edited by
Douglas Stewart
Production
   company
Allied Artists Pictures
Distributed by
United Artists
Release date(s)
December 20, 1978

Running time
115 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$3.5 million[1]
Box office
$24,946,533[2]
Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a 1978 science fiction thriller[3] directed by Philip Kaufman, and starring Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Veronica Cartwright and Leonard Nimoy. Released on December 20, 1978, it is a remake of the 1956 film of the same name, which was based on the novel The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney. The plot involves a San Francisco health inspector and his colleague who discover humans are being replaced by duplicate aliens who appear to be perfect copies of the persons replaced, but devoid of any human emotion, who attempt to install a tightly organised, conformist society.
A box office success, Invasion of the Body Snatchers was very well received by critics, and is considered by some to be among the greatest film remakes.[4]


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Background
4 Release 4.1 Critical reception
4.2 Home video
5 Legacy
6 References
7 External links

Plot[edit]
In deep space, a race of gelatinous creatures abandon their dying world. Pushed through the universe by solar wind, they make their way to Earth and land in San Francisco. Some fall on plant leaves, assimilating them and forming small pods with pink flowers. Elizabeth Driscoll (Brooke Adams), an employee at the San Francisco health department, is one of several people who bring flowers home. The next morning, Elizabeth's partner, Geoffrey Howell (Art Hindle), suddenly becomes distant, and she senses that something is wrong. Her colleague, health inspector Matthew Bennell (Donald Sutherland), suggests that she see his friend, psychiatrist Dr. David Kibner (Leonard Nimoy). Kibner suggests that Elizabeth wants to believe that Geoffrey has changed because she is looking for an excuse to get out of their relationship.
Meanwhile, Matthew's friend Jack Bellicec (Jeff Goldblum), a struggling writer who owns a mud bath with his wife Nancy (Veronica Cartwright), discovers a deformed body on one of the beds and calls Matthew to investigate. Noticing that the body (which has adult features but lacks distinguishing characteristics) bears a slight resemblance to Jack, Matthew breaks into Elizabeth's home and finds a nearly complete double of her in the bedroom garden. He is able to get Elizabeth to safety, but the duplicate body has disappeared by the time he returns with the police.
Matthew realizes that what is happening is extraterrestrial, not realizing that Dr. Kibner has also been changed. He calls several state and federal agencies, but they all tell him not to worry. In addition, people who had earlier claimed that their loved ones had changed seem to have been converted as well.
That night, Matthew and his friends are nearly duplicated by the pods while they sleep. The pod people try to raid Matthew's house, but the humans are able to slip away. During this, they discover that the pod people emit a shrill scream once they learn someone is still human among them.
Jack and Nancy sacrifice themselves to a crowd of pursuing pod people to distract them and give their friends time to escape. Matthew and Elizabeth are chased across San Francisco. They are eventually found by the doubles of Jack and Dr. Kibner at the Health Department. Kibner's double tells them that their species is incapable of hating humanity; that what they are doing is the only way for their species to survive and that they are even doing humanity a favor by ridding them of emotion. They are both injected with a sedative to make them sleep. However, having already taken a large dose of speed, the couple is able to overpower them and escape the building.
In the stairwell, they find Nancy, who has learned to evade the pod people by hiding all emotion. Outside, Matthew and Elizabeth are exposed as human when Elizabeth screams after seeing a mutant dog with a man's face. They flee, and discover a giant warehouse at the docks where the pods are grown. After Matthew and Elizabeth profess their love for each other, they hear "Amazing Grace" being played nearby. Matthew goes out to investigate, only to discover a cargo ship being loaded with hundreds of pods.
Matthew returns to find that Elizabeth has fallen asleep. Although he tries to wake her, her body crumbles to dust and Elizabeth's naked double arises behind him, telling him to go to sleep. Now alone, Matthew destroys the pod-growing facility by cutting the overhead lights. Within moments, the entire warehouse is on fire and the unhatched pods begin to die. He is pointed out by Elizabeth's double and hides under a pier while the pod people search for him.
The next morning, Matthew watches dozens of children being led into a theater to be replaced. At work he sees Elizabeth, but she is completely oblivious to him. While walking towards City Hall, he is spotted by Nancy, who has avoided conversion into a pod person. She calls his name, to which Matthew responds by pointing to her and emitting the piercing pod scream. Realizing that Matthew is now a pod person, Nancy screams in helpless terror, and the camera backs into Matthew's mouth right before the end credits.
Cast[edit]
Donald Sutherland as Matthew Bennell
Brooke Adams as Elizabeth Driscoll
Leonard Nimoy as Dr. David Kibner
Jeff Goldblum as Jack Bellicec
Veronica Cartwright as Nancy Bellicec
Art Hindle as Dr. Geoffrey Howell, DDS
Lelia Goldoni as Katherine Hendley
Kevin McCarthy as Dr Miles J. Bennell
Don Siegel as Taxicab Driver
Background[edit]


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The film features a number of cameo appearances. Kevin McCarthy, who played Dr. Miles Bennell in the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers, makes a brief appearance as an old man frantically screaming "They're here!" to passing cars on the street. Some reviewers have taken this scene to mean that the film is not a direct remake, but a sequel to the original, with the man on the street being an older version of Bennell.[5] The original film's director, Don Siegel, appears as a taxi driver who pretends to drive Matthew and Elizabeth away from the city. Robert Duvall is also seen briefly as a silent priest on a swing set in the opening scene.[6] Director Philip Kaufman appears in dual roles both as a man wearing a hat who bothers Sutherland's character in a phone booth, and the voice of one of the officials Sutherland's character speaks to on the phone. His wife, Rose Kaufman, has a small role at the book party as the woman who argues with Jeff Goldblum's character. Cinematographer Michael Chapman appears twice as a janitor in the health department.
The film score by Denny Zeitlin was released on Perseverance Records. Despite its popularity and critical praise, it is the only film score Zeitlin has composed.
Release[edit]
Invasion of the Body Snatchers earned nearly $25 million in box office revenue in the United States.[7]
Critical reception[edit]
Reviews for Invasion of the Body Snatchers have been nearly unanimously positive. It maintains a 95% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes,[4] the consensus reading "Employing gritty camerawork and evocative sound effects, Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a powerful remake that expands upon themes and ideas only lightly explored in the original," and is regarded as one of the best films of 1978,[8][9] as well as one of the greatest film remakes ever made.[10]
The New Yorker's Pauline Kael was a particular fan of the film, writing that it "may be the best film of its kind ever made".[11] Variety wrote that it "validates the entire concept of remakes. This new version of Don Siegel's 1956 cult classic not only matches the original in horrific tone and effect, but exceeds it in both conception and execution."[12] The New York Times' Janet Maslin wrote "The creepiness [Kauffman] generates is so crazily ubiquitous it becomes funny."[13]
The film was not without its criticism. Roger Ebert called Pauline Kael's praise for the movie "inexplicable",[14] while Time magazine's Richard Schickel labeled its screenplay "laughably literal".[15] Phil Hardy's Aurum Film Encyclopedia called Kaufman's direction "less sure" than the screenplay.[16]
The film received a nomination from the Writers Guild of America for Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium. The film was also nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation. It was also recognized by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films. Philip Kaufman won Best Director, and the film was nominated Best Science Fiction Film. Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams and Leonard Nimoy received additional nominations for their performances.[17]
Home video[edit]
Invasion of the Body Snatchers was released on DVD in the United States, United Kingdom and many European countries. The film was released on Blu-ray Disc in the United States in 2010 and in the United Kingdom in 2013.
Legacy[edit]
The Chicago Film Critics Association named it the 59th scariest film ever made.[18]
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Box Office Information for Invasion of the Body Snatchers. IMDb. Retrieved October 10, 2012.
2.Jump up ^ Box Office Information for Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved October 10, 2012.
3.Jump up ^ Dillard, Brian J. "Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) – Trailers, Reviews, Synopsis, Showtimes and Cast : AllMovie". AllMovie. Retrieved October 1, 2012.
4.^ Jump up to: a b "Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved September 26, 2012.
5.Jump up ^ Knowles, Harry (March 26, 1998). "Invasion of the Body Snatchers...". aintitcool.com. Retrieved November 13, 2012.
6.Jump up ^ In the director's commentary on the DVD release, Kaufman states that Duvall, who had worked with him in The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid, happened to be in San Francisco at the time of filming and did the scene for free. Kaufman also notes that Duvall's character is the first "pod" to be seen in the film.
7.Jump up ^ "Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Box Office Information". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 5 June 2012.
8.Jump up ^ "The Best Movies of 1978 by Rank". films101.com. Retrieved September 26, 2012.
9.Jump up ^ "Most Popular Feature Films Released in 1978". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved September 26, 2012.
10.Jump up ^ "Best Remakes: 50 Years, 50 Movies". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved September 26, 2012.
11.Jump up ^ Menand, Louis (March 23, 1995). "Finding It at the Movies". nybooks.com. Retrieved September 26, 2012.
12.Jump up ^ Hurtley, Stella (December 31, 1977). "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". Variety 332: 147. Bibcode:2011Sci...332U.147H. Retrieved September 26, 2012.
13.Jump up ^ Maslin, Janet (December 22, 1978). "Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978): Screen: 'Body Snatchers' Return in All Their Creepy Glory". The New York Times. Retrieved September 26, 2012.
14.Jump up ^ Ebert, Roger (November 9, 2009). Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2010. Andrews McMeel. p. 218. ISBN 9780740792182. Retrieved September 26, 2012.
15.Jump up ^ Time (Time Inc.). December 25, 1978.
16.Jump up ^ Hardy, Phil (1991). The Aurum Film Encyclopedia – Science Fiction. Aurum Press.
17.Jump up ^ "Invasion of the Body Snatchers: Award Wins and Nominations". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved September 26, 2012.
18.Jump up ^ "Chicago Critics' Scariest Films". Alt Film Guide. 26 October 2006. Retrieved 5 June 2012.
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Body Snatchers (1993 film)
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Body Snatchers
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Theatrical film poster

Directed by
Abel Ferrara
Produced by
Robert H. Solo
Screenplay by
Stuart Gordon
 Dennis Paoli
 Nicholas St. John
Story by
Raymond Cistheri
Larry Cohen
Based on
Novel:
Jack Finney
Starring
Gabrielle Anwar
Meg Tilly
Music by
Joe Delia
Cinematography
Bojan Bazelli
Edited by
Anthony Redman
Distributed by
Warner Bros.
Release date(s)
January 28, 1994

Running time
87 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Box office
Domestic
 $428,868
Body Snatchers is a 1993 American science fiction horror film loosely based on the 1955 novel The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney. The film was directed by Abel Ferrara, starring Gabrielle Anwar, Billy Wirth, Terry Kinney, Meg Tilly, R. Lee Ermey and Forest Whitaker.
Body Snatchers is the third film adaptation of Finney's novel, the first adaptation being Invasion of the Body Snatchers in 1956, followed by a remake of the same name in 1978. The plot revolves around the discovery that people working at a military base in Alabama are being replaced by perfect physical imitations grown from plant-like pods. The duplicates are indistinguishable from normal people except for their utter lack of emotion.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Background info
4 Reception
5 See also
6 References
7 External links

Plot[edit]
Steve Malone, an agent from the Environmental Protection Agency, is sent to a military base in Alabama to test possible effects on the surrounding ecological system caused by military actions. With him is his teenage daughter from his first marriage, Marti, his second wife Carol, and Marti's half brother Andy. On their way to the base, they stop at a gas station. In the rest room, Marti is threatened by an MP member with a knife. When he notices her fear, he lets go of her, satisfied that she shows an emotional response. Before she leaves the room, he warns her, "they get you when you sleep".
Steve and his family move into their new home on the base, and Marti makes friends with the base commander's daughter Jenn. On his first day in day care, Andy runs away because he is recognized as an outsider among the other somehow conformist children. He is picked up and brought home by helicopter pilot Tim. Marti and Tim quickly feel attracted to each other. Meanwhile, while examining soil samples, Steve is approached by officer Major Collins, who asks him about psychological effects particularly narcophobia (the fear of sleep) and their possible relation to toxication of the environment. Steve believes that a physiological reaction would be more likely.
In the evening, Marti and Jenn go to the bar attended by the station's military personnel, where they meet not only Tim but also the MP who threatened Marti at the gas station. He denies that they ever met before. That night, a group of soldiers can be seen picking giant pods from the river running by the base. When Andy wakes up and enters his mother's room, Carol crumbles to dust, while a soulless double emerges from the closet. Nobody believes Andy's story that his real mother is dead and the person pretending to be Carol is only an impostor.
The following night, Marti and her father are nearly "taken over" too by duplicates emerging from the giant pods. Carol attempts to convince Steve that the takeover is a good thing, claiming that it ends confusion and anger. She also claims that there's no place to go, as the invasion is not an isolated incident. Steve is almost shocked and saddened into compliance, but Marti and Andy drag him out the door. Carol emits a shrill and mechanical scream that alerts other "pod people" to the presence of a human being. Now the majority in numbers, they swarm over the base chasing the remaining humans.
After hiding Marti and Andy in a warehouse, Steve enters Major Collins' office. The hysterical Major tries to call for help, but the line is blocked. While swallowing sleep-prevention pills Collins announces that it is too late to run; all they can do is fight. Their conversation is interrupted by the arrival of a group of pod people, led by base commander General Platt. While Steve hides, the pod people try to convince the Major that the individual is not important, and that only conformity can solve the world's problems. The Major shoots himself rather than live in such a world.
Steve returns to his children and tells them to follow him, claiming to have found a way out. They drive aimlessly through the military base, as loudspeakers shout out instructions for spreading the invasion by carrying out pods in trucks. Realizing that her father was replicated while he was away, Marti swerves the car to the side and tries to escape with her brother. Tim, who escaped his former comrades who tried to turn him into one of them, enters the scene. Marti takes his gun and shoots the person pretending to be her father. The father duplicate shrinks into a mass of seething, bloody goo.
Tim manages to get hold of a helicopter, but Marti and Andy are taken away by the pod people. They sedate both of them and take them to the base infirmary where remaining human beings are systematically duplicated by pods. Tim is able to rescue Marti, and although Marti's half brother and Jenn, now duplicates themselves, try to stop them, they manage to escape.
The ending of the film is an ambiguous one. Tim destroys the trucks filled with pods with the helicopter bombs, while Marti confesses her profound hatred in a voice-over narration, thereby hinting at a loss of humanitarian quality. While they land on another base, the words of Marti's stepmother earlier in the film can be heard, suggesting that the phenomenon has already spread beyond the army base: "Where you gonna go, where you gonna run, where you gonna hide? Nowhere... 'cause there's no one like you left."
Cast[edit]
Gabrielle Anwar - Marti Malone
Terry Kinney - Steve Malone
Billy Wirth - Tim Young
Christine Elise - Jenn Platt
R. Lee Ermey - Gen. Platt
G. Elvis Phillips - Pete
Reilly Murphy - Andy Malone
Kathleen Doyle - Mrs. Platt
Forest Whitaker - Maj. Collins
Meg Tilly - Carol Malone
Background info[edit]
Warner Brothers released Body Snatchers to only a few dozen theaters, and subsequently its domestic gross was a mere $428,868.[1]
The film marked director Ferrara's first venture into the science fiction and horror genre. Producer Robert H. Solo had already produced its 1978 predecessor Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
The largest difference in this version of the story is that it takes place on an army base in Alabama, unlike a small California town in the original novel and the first adaptation filmed in 1956, or in San Francisco like in the 1978 remake. While the first two films portrayed the tightly organised, conformist "pod society" invading a free civil society, Ferrara's film, according to Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert, made a connection between "the Army's code of rigid conformity, and the behavior of the pod people, who seem like a logical extension of the same code".[2]
Body Snatchers is the film which departs the farthest from the original novel, compared to the 1956 and 1978 versions. While Steve Malone, like the doctors Bennell in the earlier films, also has a medical/scientific profession, the main character in this film is his daughter Marti. The character of Becky/Elizabeth (Bennell's love interest and his companion during his escape attempt from the invaders) is dropped completely, as are Bennells acquaintances and later antagonists Dr. Kaufman/Kibner and the Belicecs. Re-invented, however, are two elements which had been dropped from the 1978 version: A young boy (named Jimmy Grimaldi in the 1956 version, here Marti's half brother Andy) claims that his mother is not his "real" mother. Also, the film features a voice-over narration by the main character. Two ideas invented by the 1978 version are picked up here again: The mortal remains of the "original" human beings are picked up by garbage trucks, and the duplicates utter an outworldly scream when they discover a genuine human, thereby calling assistance from other pod people.
Reception[edit]
Body Snatchers was shown in competition at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.[3] Still, some critics panned the film — Richard Harrington of the Washington Post (February 18, 1994) called it "a soulless replica of Don Siegel's 1956 model and Philip Kaufman's 1978 update".[4] Owen Gleiberman noted in Entertainment Weekly (February 11, 1994), "[the] notion of a military base as a symbol of mindless conformity isn't exactly revelatory, and the characters remain sketchy and underdeveloped."[5]
The film also received very positive reviews from some critics. Roger Ebert considered it superior to the previous adaptations of Finney's famous novel and in his review (February 25, 1994) gave it four stars out of four, praising it for psychological realism and social criticism. Ebert stated "as sheer moviemaking, it is skilled and knowing, and deserves the highest praise you can give a horror film: It works".[2] Nick Shager of the horror film review site Lessons of Darkness said in his review of the film, "this economical horror show still offers a few stunning moments of paranoia-laced terror".[6] Blake Davis of KFOR Channel 4 News said of the film: "One of the creepiest and most overlooked horror movies made in the past decade, featuring a strong, scary turn by Meg Tilly".[7]
The film currently has a "fresh" 70% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.[7]
See also[edit]
The Body Snatchers, Jack Finney's 1955 original novel.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the first film version directed by Don Siegel in 1956.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the 1978 remake directed by Philip Kaufman starring Donald Sutherland.
The Invasion, the 2007 remake starring Nicole Kidman.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ Body Snatchers in the Internet Movie Database.
2.^ Jump up to: a b Ebert, Roger (1994-02-25). "Body Snatchers Review". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved 2009-04-03.
3.Jump up ^ "Festival de Cannes: Body Snatchers". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-08-17.
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The Invasion (film)
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The Invasion
The Invasion film poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster

Directed by
Oliver Hirschbiegel
James McTeigue (uncredited)[1]
Produced by
Joel Silver
Written by
Dave Kajganich
Wachowski brothers (uncredited)[1]
Based on
The Body Snatchers
 by Jack Finney
Starring
Nicole Kidman
Daniel Craig
Jeremy Northam
Jackson Bond
Jeffrey Wright
Veronica Cartwright
Music by
John Ottman
Cinematography
Rainer Klausmann
Edited by
Joel Negron
 Hans Funck
Production
   company
Village Roadshow Pictures
Silver Pictures
Vertigo Entertainment
Distributed by
Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date(s)
August 17, 2007

Running time
99 minutes
Country
United states
Language
English
 Russian
Budget
$65 million[1]
Box office
$40,170,568[2]
The Invasion is a 2007 science fiction thriller film starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig, directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, with additional scenes written by The Wachowskis and directed by James McTeigue.
The Invasion is the fourth film adaptation of the 1955 novel The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney, following Don Siegel's 1956 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Philip Kaufman's 1978 remake of the same name, and Abel Ferrara's 1993 Body Snatchers.


Contents  [hide]
1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Comparison with other adaptions
4 Production
5 Reception
6 References
7 External links

Plot[edit]
After the space shuttle Patriot crashes on Earth, a fungus-like alien lifeform is discovered on the remaining parts scattered over US territory. Once people get in contact with the organism, they are being controlled by it when they enter REM sleep. One of the first people infected is Tucker Kaufman, a CDC director investigating the crash.
Tucker's ex-wife, psychiatrist Carol Bennell, begins to feel something is amiss when people seem to have "changed". Her patient Wendy Lenk describes how her husband "is not her husband", and one of her son's friends acts detached and emotionless. At a neighbourhood kids party, Carol's son Oliver discovers a strange lifeform. The mothers speculate if the organism is in any way connected to the reports of a fast-spreading flu. Carol takes the organism to her doctor friend Ben Driscoll to have it checked. Meanwhile, Tucker uses the CDC to spread the disease further, disguising the spores as flu inoculations.
Ben and Dr. Stephen Galeano, a biologist, discover how the spore takes over the brain during REM sleep. They also find that people who had brain affecting illnesses, such as encephalitis or ADEM, are immune to the spore because their previous illnesses prevents the spore from "latching on" to the brain matter. Carol's son, Oliver, is immune to the spore because of the ADEM he had as a young child. Carol decides to get her son, who might show a way to a cure, back from Tucker. Before she drives to Tucker's house, she joins Ben's team who are called to the house of the Belicecs in a case of emergency. There they witness Yorish's transformation.
When Carol arrives at Tucker's house, he and several colleagues close in on her. He explains that the changed humans, devoid of irrational emotions, are offering a better world, and asks her to join them. When Carol resists, he holds her to the ground and infects her by spurting his saliva on her. She escapes and returns to Ben at the Belicecs' house. They flee when Belicec returns with more transformed people intent on infecting anyone in the house. Galaneo and one of his assistants head to a base outside Baltimore where they and other scientists attempt to find a cure for the alien virus. Carol and Ben separate to find Oliver, who texts his location, the apartment of Tucker's mother, to Carol.
Finally Ben arrives, but Carol realizes that he too has become one of the infected. He tries to seduce her to give in to the new society, but also frankly states that there is no room for people like Oliver who are immune. Carol shoots him in the leg with a revolver she stole earlier from a transforming policeman, and flees with her son. With the infected closing in on them, Galeano picks them up with an army helicopter at the last second. They head back to the base, where scientists use Oliver's blood to create a vaccine.
One year later, most victims of the infection have been cured, having no memory of the events which took place during their illness. Asked by a reporter if he considers the virus to be under control, Galeano replies that a look at the newspaper headlines should be proof enough that humanity acted human again. At her home, Carol helps her son to get ready for school, while Ben, now apparently her partner, reads the morning newspaper. He expresses his dismay about the violence in the world. Carol remembers Yorish's remark that a world without violence would be a world where human beings ceased to be human.
Cast[edit]
Nicole Kidman as Carol Bennell
Daniel Craig as Ben Driscoll
Jeremy Northam as Tucker Kaufman
Jackson Bond as Oliver
Jeffrey Wright as Dr. Stephen Galeano
Veronica Cartwright as Wendy Lenk
Josef Sommer as Dr. Henryk Belicec
Celia Weston as Ludmilla Belicec
Roger Rees as Yorish
Eric Benjamin as Gene
Susan Floyd as Pam
Stephanie Berry as Carly
Alexis Raben as Jill
Adam LeFevre as Richard Lenk
Joanna Merlin as Joan Kaufman
Malin Åkerman as Autumn (Uncredited)
Jeff Wincott as Transit Cop
Comparison with other adaptions[edit]
The greatest difference to the novel and earlier filmic versions is the transformation of humans to aliens: instead of substituting the humans with duplicates grown from pods, the alien organism manipulates its victim from within the brain.
As in the 1978 version, the aliens can be seen in their original shape before they appear in human form.
Other than the 1993 Body Snatchers, the invaders again appear in a civilian environment as in the first two films. As in the 1978 film, the setting is again an urban one, with Washington D.C. replacing San Francisco.
As in the novel and the first two films, the main character is named Bennell and working in the medical profession. Here, Bennell is a psychiatrist - and a woman.
Other names have also been lifted from the novel and the first two films: Driscoll is Bennell's friend and later partner (here a male character named Ben instead of a woman named Becky or Elizabeth). Kaufman is the acquainted scientist/doctor who turns out to be an alien impostor. Although in a different constellation, also the name Belicec for a befriended couple is used.
The first time Bennell witnesses a transformation is in the house of the Belicecs - in the 1956 and 1978 films, the person in the process of transformation was Jack Belicec, here it is their guest Yorish.
As in the 1956 and 1993 films, a young boy early on senses that a parent has changed and is not herself or himself anymore.
As in the 1956 and 1978 versions, Kaufman first tries to seduce Bennell to become "one of them" by praising the advantages of the new society, before he uses force.
All earlier versions had one main character reveal himself as a human being through an emotional response, here, various secondary characters react emotionally and end up being caught by the aliens.
Again, the police play a prominent part in the takeover.
All films show a main or central character trying to stay awake with pharmaceuticals to prevent the transformation.
Body Snatchers depicted humans being systematically transformed to aliens in an army infirmary. Here, Carol Bennell, in a back room of the pharmacy she hides in, discovers a group of humans in an identical state of transition, obviously victims of a systematic infection.
As in Body Snatchers, the final words of an off-camera voice questions the victory humanity has achieved.
Production[edit]
In March 2004, Warner Bros. hired screenwriter Dave Kajganich to write a script that would serve as a remake of the 1956 science fiction film Invasion of the Body Snatchers.[3] In July 2005, director Oliver Hirschbiegel was attached to helm the project, with production to begin in Edgemere, MD.[4] The following August, Nicole Kidman was cast to star in the film then titled Invasion, receiving a salary of close to $17 million. Invasion was based on the script by Kajganich, originally intended as a remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, but Kajganich crafted a different enough story for the studio to see the project as an original conception.[5] Kajganich described the story to reflect contemporary times, saying, "You just have to look around our world today to see that power inspires nothing more than the desire to retain it and to eliminate anything that threatens it." The screenwriter said that the story was set in Washington, D.C. to reflect the theme.[6] In August, Daniel Craig was cast opposite Kidman in the lead.[7] The film, whose original title Invasion of the Body Snatchers was shortened to Invasion due to Kajganich's different concept, was changed once more to The Visiting so it would not be confused with ABC's TV series Invasion.[8]
Filming began on September 26, 2005 in Baltimore and lasted 45 days.[9] The film had minimal visual effects, with no need for greenscreen work. Instead, the director shot from odd camera angles and claustrophobic spaces to increase tension in the film.[10] In October 2006, The Visiting changed to the title of The Invasion, due to the cancellation of ABC's TV series of a similar name.[11] The studio, however, was unhappy with Hirschbiegel's results and hired the Wachowski brothers to rewrite the film and assist with additional shooting.[1] The studio later hired director James McTeigue to perform re-shoots that would cost $10 million,[12] an uncredited duty by McTeigue.[13] After 13 months of inactivity, re-shoots took place in January 2007 to increase action scenes and add a twist ending.[14] The re-shoot lasted for 17 days in Los Angeles.[1] During the re-shooting, Kidman was involved in an accident, while in a Jaguar that was being towed by a stunt driver and was taken to a hospital briefly.[15] Kidman broke several ribs, but she was able to get back to work soon after being hospitalized.[16]
In May 2007, composer John Ottman recorded the musical score for The Invasion, using heavy synthesizers combined with a 77-piece orchestra intended to create "otherworldly foreboding and tension". The music was also designed to have an avant-garde postmodern style, with atmospheric and thrilling action elements.[17]
The Invasion was originally intended to be released in June 2006,[18] but it was postponed to 2007.[11] The film was released on August 17, 2007 in the United States and Canada in 2,776 theaters. The film grossed $5,951,409 over the opening weekend. The Invasion has grossed $15,074,191 in the United States and Canada and $24,727,542 in other territories for a worldwide gross of $40,170,558 as of March 9, 2008.[2]
The music in the trailer is called "Untitled 8 (a.k.a. "Popplagið")" by Sigur Rós.
Reception[edit]
The film received mixed to negative reviews. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, The Invasion rates 19%.[19] On review aggregator Metacritic, The Invasion received an average score of 45 out of 100.[20]
"[…] the fourth, and the least, of the movies made from Jack Finney's classic science fiction novel […]." – Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times.[21]
"[…] a soulless rehash […] The movie isn't terrible; it's just low-rent and reductive." – Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly.[22]
"[…] uninspired fourth version of the 1956 sci-fi classic […] With all the shoot-outs, the screaming, the chases, collisions and fireballs, there isn't much time for storytelling." – Joanne Kaufman, The Wall Street Journal.[23]
References[edit]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c d e Nicole Sperling; Christine Spines (August 10, 2007). "Hidden 'Invasion'". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved August 18, 2007.
2.^ Jump up to: a b "The Invasion (2007)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved September 21, 2007.
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4.Jump up ^ "Body Snatchers Get a Director". ComingSoon.net. July 15, 2005. Retrieved April 28, 2007.
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6.Jump up ^ Felix Cheong (September 14, 2007). "Remaking the Remake". Today. Retrieved October 5, 2007.
7.Jump up ^ Pamela McClintock (August 18, 2005). "Craig plans for 'Invasion'". Variety. Retrieved April 28, 2007.
8.Jump up ^ Pamela McClintock (October 9, 2005). "'Invasion' title snatched". Variety. Retrieved April 28, 2007.
9.Jump up ^ Chris Kaltenbech (September 24, 2005). "'Invasion,' downgraded to a 'Visiting,' will hit city". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved April 28, 2007.
10.Jump up ^ Susan Wloszczyna (January 11, 2006). "Paranoia gets revisited in 'The Visiting'". USA Today. Retrieved April 28, 2007.
11.^ Jump up to: a b Pamela McClintock (October 15, 2006). "The 'Invasion' is back on again". Variety. Retrieved April 28, 2007.
12.Jump up ^ Patrick Goldstein (March 7, 2007). "Success and Failure Can Cross Hollywood Border". Los Angeles Times.
13.Jump up ^ Michael Fleming (June 26, 2007). "McTeigue to get Thai'd up in 'Bangkok'". Variety. Retrieved July 7, 2007.
14.Jump up ^ "August 17 – The Invasion". Entertainment Weekly. May 4, 2007.
15.Jump up ^ Associated Press (January 25, 2007). "Kidman in Crash on The Invasion Set". ComingSoon.net. Retrieved April 28, 2007.
16.Jump up ^ Patrick Lee (August 14, 2007). "Kidman Talks Invasion Injuries". Sci Fi Wire. Archived from the original on October 11, 2007. Retrieved August 14, 2007.
17.Jump up ^ Dan Goldwasser (May 25, 2007). "John Ottman scores The Invasion". SoundtrackNet. Retrieved May 9, 2007.
18.Jump up ^ Susan Wloszczyna (November 17, 2005). "Kidman happily visits while filming 'Visiting'". USA Today. Retrieved April 28, 2007.
19.Jump up ^ "The Invasion". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved October 27, 2011.
20.Jump up ^ "Invasion, The (2007): Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved October 27, 2011.
21.Jump up ^ Review in the Chicago Sun-Times, August 17, 2007.
22.Jump up ^ Review in Entertainment Weekly, August 15, 2007.
23.Jump up ^ Review in The Wall Street Journal, August 17, 2007.
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