What is your favorite Body Snatchers film?

[Mr. Laser Beam]

The heroes would obliterate the villainess, but lose to a pure-energy form.

Bomp, bomp, bomp-bomp-bom-bomp,

PURE ENERGY.

I'll tell you what first freaked me out about the '78 film: the POSTER. I was 8 years old when it came out and it gave me the screaming heebie-jeebies. This was before I even knew what the damn thing was about...

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I wonder if people go up to Donald Sutherland in public and do the point-and-scream thing.

 

[Pingfah]

I rather like the Abel Ferrara version.

 

[Pingfah]

Yes, I saw that on a plane and still felt ripped off. Time could have been better spent staring at the tops of clouds.

 

[J.T.B.]

I rarely like any remakes better than the original, and this is no exception. But the 1978 one is really good, and comes very close.

Because PG-13 was six years away, you had borderline R-rated moments in this PG-rated film. And not for the first or last time.

Yeah, I was in elementary school and a few schoolmates had seen it. When I saw it later I was a little surprised, my parents would never have let me see something like that.

 

[Greg Cox]

Just to be contrary, I'm going to go for The Body Snatcher with Boris Karloff, which is, of course, based on an entirely different story!

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I wonder if people go up to Donald Sutherland in public and do the point-and-scream thing.

I couldn't say. But that's exactly what I had Veronica Cartwright do to me for a photo at last year's NostalgiaCon. She channeled Sutherland while I channelled Leslie Nielsen.

Leslie Nielsen...that I'd like to have seen.

"My name is Sergeant Frank Drebin, Detective Captain Lieutenant Inspector of Police Squad. There'd been a recent wave of gorgeous pod aliens lying naked and unconscious in laundromats on the West Side..."