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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community Jun 6, 2000
Pros: Good script, good acting. Still scary after all these years.
Cons: Sometimes corny.
Summary: “It started, for me it started, last Thursday. In response to an urgent message from my nurse, I hurried home from a medical convention I’d been attending. At first glance, everything looked the same. It wasn’t. Something evil had taken possession of ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 1, 2009
Pros: Direction, story, entertaining, short
Cons: None
Summary: One classic film that has been imitated, taken from, and remade into such pitiful films like 2007's The Invasion is the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers movie directed by Don Siegel. Here you are looking into the eyes of Dr. ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 3, 2008
Pros: This is one of the best science fiction movies ever made.
Cons: None.
Summary: INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS 1950'S VERSION
Have you ever woken up in the morning only to find that your spouse and loved ones have ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jun 28, 2003
Pros: good spook flick-entertaining and suspenseful. keeps your attention.
Cons: the special effects are poor and the whole thing is campy.
Summary: I started watching this movie with the opinion that I would hate it. Surprise, surprise. it was actu ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 16, 2002
Pros: Siegel's direction, high level of suspense
Cons: Wooden acting
Summary: This classic sci-fi B-movie is one of the best alien invasion flicks of the fifties. But while most most of these films depict aliens bringing death and destruction from above, this film is unique in that it depicts a gradual, invisible invasion from ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 27, 2001
Pros: Realistic acting, atmosphere, direction
Cons: None
Summary: Welcome to 1956. The fear of Russian attack is becoming a reality and America is plunged into the dark days of the Cold War. This war put fear into the hearts of all Americans and there was an ever present sense of dread that they might one day be ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 27, 2001
Pros: All.Great script, great acting.
Cons: None
Summary: Starring Keven McCarthy and Dana Wynter.
This is a black and white classic.There is no
doubt about it.And it is certainly up there on
the level with another great science fiction
movie, The Day The Earth Stood Still.
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 15, 2000
Pros: great acting and story line
Cons: none
Summary: I just got done watching this film, and I must say, it is truly the classic I've heard it is. Although it is an old film, Invasion Of The Body Snatchers is extremely chilling frightening.
It starts out with Dr. Bennell being in a ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 12, 2000
Pros: Understated horror
Cons: Some hokey moments
Summary: “They’re here!” yells the man in the rumpled suit, eyes wide with fear, hair plastered to his forehead with sweat, as he stumbles into the traffic on a bustling California freeway. Of course, no-one believes him. The guy’s nuts, or drunk, or just plain ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 21, 1999
Pros: originality, script, suspense, story
Cons: hammy, paranoid, characters
Summary: "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" is an interesting, intelligently scripted film, particularly for a 1950s horror film. However, the melodramatic score, heavy-handed direction and hammy acting make it more of a comedy than it was intended to ... read more
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