Pure bliss. This is a really fun movie. The first one, that is. I think this film has been re-made about 27 times, seemingly once a decade. There’s a sense of terror and awe in the thought of everyone around you being taken over by outside forces. An alien is your best friend but on the exterior he or she looks exactly the same. The slow, burning paranoia that takes over the film for the first hour works beautifully, and the execution, with an awesome last-minute twist, is one that I should’ve seen coming but unfortunately didn’t. This is the second of two 50’s sci-fi movies I’ve watched, and while The Day the Earth Stood Still is by far the more classy of the two, I was definitely more entertained by Invasion of the Body Snatchers. I look forward to seeing a couple of the re-makes, specifically the one made in the 70’s that I’ve heard is pretty solid. My introduction to this story was through a scene of Robert Rodriguez’s The Faculty, whose story is basically the same but with teachers, and I’m happy that all these years later I’ve finally gotten to discover what all the fuss is about. Invasion of the Body Snatchers is not remarkable by any means, but it’s a damn fun and exciting early science fiction classic worth seeking out.