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INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS
USA, 1956, 80 MIN
DIRECTED BY DON SIEGEL
50th ANNIVERSARY SHOWING—BRAND NEW 35MM PRINT!
The all-time classic of Eisenhower-era paranoia returns to the big screen in a gorgeous new Cinemascope print, struck especially for the film's 50th anniversary. Twice remade, often imitated but never equaled, director Don Siegel's terrifying nightmare of malignant conformity still reigns as one of the greatest chillers of the fifties—or any other decade. When the residents of Santa Mira tell psychiatrist Kevin McCarthy that their relatives aren't themselves any more, they're more correct than they realize: home by home, block by block, the townspeople are being replaced with emotionless duplicates, free of pain, strife… and humanity. Variously read as both an allegory of the loss of personal autonomy under Communism and, conversely, a satire of Cold War paranoia in the McCarthy era, INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS remains distressingly timeless—a chilling, fever-pitch illustration of what happens when our very individuality becomes obsolete. Even the studio-dictated "happy ending" (so to speak) is of little comfort in this still-frightening blast of doomsday, here presented in its full, fever-pitched glory. You may never sleep soundly again!