#jack finney

[thatsbelievable]

[ninaandjames]

All time fave book. Short stories of what the Twilight Zone really coulda been. Comes highly recommended.

[gregorygalloway]

Invasion of the Body Snatchers was released in the US on 5 February 1956.

Based on Jack Finney's 1954 novel (originally serialized in Collier's magazine), with a screenplay by Daniel Mainwaring, Don Siegel shot the film in less than 3 weeks on a budget of $350,000 (about $4 million in today's value).

According to Siegel, the studio cut out some humor that was in the original, as well as added a "prologue" and "epilogue" over his objections ("The film was nearly ruined by those in charge at Allied Artists who added a preface and ending that I don't like," Siegel said).

Mostly ignored by critics when it was first released, Invasion of the Body Snatchers was a hit, earning more than $1 million in its first month, and is now considered one of the best horror and science fiction films of all time.

Sam Peckinpah (who worked as an assistant and dialogue coach on 5 films with Don Siegel) can be briefly seen as a the Gas Meter Reader.

[omercifulheaves]

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

[nerds-yearbook]

The Invasion of the Body Snatchers was released in theaters on February 5, 1956. The movie was based on the serial story "The Body Snatchers" published in Collier's Magazine by Jack Kinney. In 1994 the film about alien pods replacing people with clones was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registery. A framing device was added post production as the studio feared ending the movie on a downbeat and uncertain note. They also forced the production to remove all the humorous lines and beats from the production as they felt a movie couldn't both be humorous and horror. ("Invasion of the Body Snatchers", Movie Event)

[seanleelevin]

Checking out this horror anthology TV movie on Tubi.

[brokehorrorfan]

The Invasion will be released on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray on November 12 via Arrow Video. Tommy Pocket designed the new cover art for the 2007 sci-fi thriller; the original poster is on the reverse side.

The fourth adaptation of Jack Finney's 1955 novel The Body Snatchers is directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel (The Experiment) and written by David Kajganich (Suspiria). Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Jeremy Northam, and Jeffrey Wright star.

The Invasion is presented in 4K with Dolby Vision and original lossless DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio. Special features are listed below, where you can also see more of the packaging.

Special features:

Audio commentary by The Faculty of Horror's Andrea Subisati and Alexandra West (new)

Body Snatchers and Beyond - Visual essay by film scholar Alexandra Heller Nicholas (new)

That Bug That’s Going Around - Visual essay exploring The Invasion as pandemic prophecy by film scholar Josh Nelson (new)

We’ve Been Snatched Before, an archival featurette from 2007

The Invasion: A New Story

The Invasion: On the Set

The Invasion: Snatched

Theatrical trailer

Image gallery

Booklet with new writing by film critics William Bibbiani and Sally Christie

Double-sided fold out poster with original and new artwork by Tommy Pocket

A space shuttle crashes to Earth carrying an alien organism. Soon people are changing, becoming detached and emotionless. People like CDC director Tucker Kaufman (Jeremy Northam) who is investigating the crash. Meanwhile his ex-wife, psychiatrist Carol Bennell (Nicole Kidman), sees the same behaviour in a friend of their son, and a patient claims that her husband is no longer her husband. As people all across Washington D.C. become infected and the insidious epidemic spreads, Carol must fight to protect herself and her son, who might just hold the key to stopping the escalating invasion.

Pre-order The Invasion.

[knightotoc]

"In my father's day, a night operator, whose name he'd have known, could've told him who'd called. It would probably have been the only light on her board at that time of night, and she'd have remembered which one it was, because they were calling the doctor.

"But now we have dial phones, marvelously efficient, saving you a full second or more every time you call. Inhumanely perfect, and utterly brainless. And none of them will ever remember where a doctor is at night when a child is sick and needs him. Sometimes I think we're refining all humanity out of our lives."

-- The Body Snatchers, Jack Finney, 1955