It has some originality in its sci-fi horror premise about aliens, but it often remains situated on a soft, skin-deep surface that unfortunately never emerges from the sheath to interrogate post-war paranoia. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jul 30, 2024

Even today, Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a rather wonderful alien thriller. Carrying both a devilish tension and undeniable charm, the film pulls audiences in with both great characters and filmmaking.

| Sep 22, 2022

A dive into Invasion of the Body Snatchers shows how special this movie is... Whether it be though an examinations of the pods as a metaphor for communism, or... the downside of consumerism... this movie is a riveting example of timely 1950s cinema.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 1, 2022

...the rising terror of the nightmare depicted here is very much in tune with 2021's on-going state of fear and loathing between previously trusting neighbours...

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 28, 2021

A daring, tragic, influential, adventurous, utterly perfect blend of smart sci-fi and creeping dread.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Aug 23, 2020

This remains not only the best of the adaptations but also one of the best horror/sci-fi films ever made.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 14, 2019

Don Siegel's lean, efficient masterwork of paranoia has never looked better thanks to a gorgeous restoration that vividly brings the black and white terror to your home.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 6, 2018

Still the quintessential science fiction horror film...

| Nov 1, 2018

gripping and suspenseful... perfectly paced.

| Oct 22, 2018

The film's brilliance lies in the way it splits the difference between the horror and sci-fi, turning the potential wonders of outer space into a nightmare about inner space

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 17, 2018

The original version of the oft-filmed science fiction horror is still the most insidious alien invasion film ever made.

| Oct 6, 2017

[This movie] scares the holy piss out of me.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 9, 2015

"You fools! You're in danger! Can't you see? They're after you! They're after all of us!" It's one of the greatest lines in sci-fi movie history, from one of the greatest films, Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 4, 2014

Watch it in the cinema and you'll find yourself gazing warily at everyone else in your row.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 2, 2014

A movie that can claim kinship with Alberto Cavalcanti's Went the Day Well? as well as The Matrix and Under the Skin.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 30, 2014

A film whose righteous anger is visible in its every frame.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 30, 2014

Brilliantly placed, however unwittingly, to illustrate America's political paranoia from both ends.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 30, 2014

This modest, sci-fi-inflected 1956 horror movie may come to be seen as the defining metaphorical work of the twentieth century.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 27, 2014

The modest budget and B-list stars (Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter) - enhance the movie's impact, and Don Siegel's taut direction makes the sheer ordinariness of the setting all the more scary.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 27, 2014

Although expertly remade twice - in 1978 and 1993 - and rather less successfully in 2007, the original is still the most striking, with a justly famous scalp-freezing ending.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Oct 7, 2013