Sunday, July 25, 2010

Invasion of the Body Snatchers


Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049366/]

The Gist:
Ah, the campy 50s sci-fi thriller B-movie with social relevance, where some unknown alien threat is taking over the innocent people of small town, USA and replacing them with emotionless drones spurring the paranoiac escapades of Joe Doctor and his high school sweet heart and some other people that aren't important save for alien pod fodder and how it all resembles the collective of communism where everyone is "the same" and thus are debased into evil carbon copies who drive through American highways with trucks full of pods to infect other small towns like a disease and Joe Doctor can't do anything except avoid sleeping lest he or High School Betty get turned into drones themselves and so they shoot themselves up with some anonymous secret stay awake drugs and run away a lot and finally its just Joe Doctor alone screaming frantically in a police station like a mad man with his hair all fussed and uh... Well, in other words, I liked the film.

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