Invasion of the Body Snatchers

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Summary: Emotions and humanity...
Review: Is it better to experience life's high happy peaks and its disastrous valleys of pain, or to live in a mediocre stasis with no ups, but no downs either? How important are emotions to the state of humanity?

Such are the questions posed by this influential black and white 1956 classic. Kevin McCarthy is great as the last hope Dr. Bennell, who must escape from the pod people to warn neighboring towns about the body snatchers! The story is great, the acting is good, the lighting and cinematography prove that you don't need today's modern colorization.

Its just an all around great watch.

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Summary: Open your eyes!
Review: Scary science fiction movie around small town residents who are replaced by inert duplicates sown by alien pods. Tense dramatic and anguish from beginning to end . This movie may be well the best sci fi film in the fifties due its originality .
Directed by Don Siegel . The open ending is a classic and still menaces to you .
So let's do what Hamlet and let's kill the dream!, because remember in an insane world only the insane is normal.

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Summary: Still Good
Review: I just watched this film over the weekend, and I was impressed with how well it has stood up over time. The story has a great pace, and gets creepier by the minute. Some minor criticisms:

--Cheesy love story, but typical for the 50's ("My darling...")
--Some minor plot inconsistencies (without giving away any plot twists, it implies that "pods" must be nearby for people to be "snatched," but there is at least one "snatching" where no pod could possibly have been close by).

Overall, one of the best horror movies of the era. Great cinematography, good acting, and a well-paced story. Recommended.