Sadly Over-hyped

Just what I expected

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Danny Peary, in his 'Cult Films' books series years ago correctly called this film an attack on communism, an allegorical expose of insidious commie tricks by which the reds gull the weak minded into going along with their genocidal 'utopian vision.'People appear the same on the outside, but within there has been 'revolution within the form' to use a commie phrase. This means that external appearances are the same but inside, there's another person, a whole new 'socialist man' just itching to destroy civil society and all human and animal life. The Venona Papers and the Mitrohkin Archive, among others released during the 90s well proved the massive effort on part of the soviets to use all necessary means to subvert America from within.Job well done. Paul Vincent Zecchino Manasota Key, Florida 26 May, 2018

For a truly insightful look at America's pervasive "Red Scare" culture of the 1950s, one need look no further than Don Siegel's (original) 1956 "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", wherein the pod people are metaphors for the near universal fear of a "Godless, soulless" Communist takeover coming from within via sleeper agents born, raised, and trained to seamlessly blend in with American society (they look, talk, and seem just like us, but are alien and out to destroy us). Everything one needs to know about America's fear of Communism in the 1950s is contained in this film. This is Scifi at its very best, as social commentary as well as a potent art form and a valuable historical source.

This was the first ever scary film that i ever saw. I have enjoyed three differing versions of this story. A low budget effort it is, but superbly directed, a fantastic script and it is so good that the case for special effects almost can be thrown out the window. I have always loved science fiction horror films, and this one is right up there with the best of them. A slow start, and a believable tale is shown to the audience, as the doctor struggles to deal with the comings and goings on in the town. Simply a must see for students of science fiction horror.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers is directed by Don Siegel, has a screenplay by Daniel Mainwaring, is based on the novel by Jack Finney and stars Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter.This is one of the best science fiction films ever made. Instead of aliens landing in spaceships and trying to make contact with us or destroy us from outer space, the aliens in this film invade us and kill us, replacing us with identical duplicates which lack emotion. This film perfectly captures the feelings of hysteria and paranoia such an event would cause. The film can also be seen as an allegory for the so called threat of the day which was communism. In this film people look at everyone with suspicion and paranoia is rampant.The film opens with a deeply distressed Miles Bennell(Kevin McCarthy)arrested by Police and begging for people to listen to what he has to say. He claims that there has been an alien invasion. We then see in flashback what he has experienced.Doctor Miles Bennell returns home to his small town and stumbles upon a nightmare. He has many patients contacting him claiming that family members are not who they say they are. Miles suspects some sort of mass hysteria but as time goes on he notices that people are acting strangely.A strange seed pod is found at his friends house and Miles discovers a growing duplicate of his girlfriend Becky(Dana Wynter).Soon almost everyone in town is replaced by an alien duplicate, these duplicates look human but they have no emotions. The pod people are sending their seed pods out of town to other towns and cities to take over more people. Miles and Becky try and escape the town to warn other people what is happening but are pursued by the pod people.This film is truly chilling and is still very effective today. I like this version very much but my favourite is the 1978 remake starring Donald Sutherland, that is truly chilling and the pod people's scream is one the scariest things I've ever heard.