Review #244: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
This review was originally written in October 2022. Gabe's 100 Bucket List Horror Films Review #98: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a film about a group of friends in San Francisco (Matthew, Elizabeth, Jack, and Nancy) when a rash of odd panic begins cropping up around town. Elizabeth notices her significant other acting unusually, meeting with strangers and conducting covert business, and Matthew tries to help her see through this irrational fear. But when Jack and Nancy discover a strange lifeless body has begun to materialize in their place of business that resembles Jack, it kicks off a sequence of events that make it clear that something supernatural and sinister is indeed manipulating the city of San Francisco- and possibly, the world. I think this was a very fun film. At the start, before anything concrete is established, a lot of work is done to show that something is amiss, and also to lay the groundwork for what will eventually be ...