The main characters struggle to understand what’s happening, then desperately try to escape the danger. Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Jeff Goldblum, Veronica Cartwright, and Leonard Nimoy come across as people of interest. Then there is the cast their quirks and interactions with each other turn the science fiction into a human drama piece. He though has writing credits on Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Outlaw Josey Wales. Philip Kaufman is probably not a name on the tongue of most movie watchers. What makes this movie work? First, look to the director.
The Thing, The Fly, Invaders from Mars, and The Blob probably would not have been produced without the critical and commercial success of this film.
However, when Philip Kaufman directed this version of Invasion in 1978, he led the way in a decade of re-imaginings of other 1950s science fiction films. In the current Hollywood environment, where it seems remakes are being greenlit either to just cash in on fondly remembered properties, or to make superficial changes by changing the race or sex of characters without looking at the story from another angle, the word remake can leave a bad taste in the mouth. Even if one does not subscribe to that view, one can’t doubt that it’s one of the best remakes in cinematic history. There are some that believe it surpasses the original adaptation from 1956. While some have fallen flat, Invasion of the Body Snatchers from 1978 is probably one of the best adaptations.
Countless science fiction movies and television shows also have taken ideas from the original work. It’s probably why there’s been four official adaptations. Relevant no matter the era-that’s how many would describe the Jack Finney-penned novel about pod people replacing humans and substituting individual consciousness with collective thought.
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