115 mins |
Rated
M (Violence)
Directed by Philip Kaufman
Starring Leonard Nimoy, Veronica Cartwright, Brooke Adams, Jeff Goldblum, Donald Sutherland
Each month we have a film picked by a special film industry guest. For October we have a special Halloween edition, screening Philip Kaufman's chilling 70s remake of INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS - often considered one of the best remakes ever made!
Tickets only $10!
Happy Hour drinks from 7pm.
Screening 8:15pm.
Watch Out! They Get You While You're Sleeping!
When health official Elizabeth Driscoll (Brooke Adams) notices that her lover has become strangely distant, this sets in train a series of shocking discoveries that sees both her and colleague Matthew Bennell (Donald Sutherland) fleeing for their lives to the sound of ear-piercing alien screams.
Remakes of great films are usually on a hiding to nothing, but Philip Kaufman's brilliant update of the 1956 classic is a rare and memorable exception. Transposing the action to the heart of San Francisco allows Kaufman to retain all the suspense of Jack Finney's original story while adding caustic social commentary about the selfishness of the 1970s 'me generation' that remains all too relevant today.
But it's a paranoid thriller first and foremost, based on one of the most psychologically terrifying of all premises - what happens when you can no longer trust not just the authorities but even your nearest and dearest?
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Each month we have a film picked by a special film industry guest. For October we have a special Halloween edition, screening Philip Kaufman's chilling 70s remake of INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS - often considered one of the best remakes ever made!
Tickets only $10!
Happy Hour drinks from 7pm.
Screening 8:15pm.
Watch Out! They Get You While You're Sleeping!
When health official Elizabeth Driscoll (Brooke Adams) notices that her lover has become strangely distant, this sets in train a series of shocking discoveries that sees both her and colleague Matthew Bennell (Donald Sutherland) fleeing for their lives to the sound of ear-piercing alien screams.
Remakes of great films are usually on a hiding to nothing, but Philip Kaufman's brilliant update of the 1956 classic is a rare and memorable exception. Transposing the action to the heart of San Francisco allows Kaufman to retain all the suspense of Jack Finney's original story while adding caustic social commentary about the selfishness of the 1970s 'me generation' that remains all too relevant today.
But it's a paranoid thriller first and foremost, based on one of the most psychologically terrifying of all premises - what happens when you can no longer trust not just the authorities but even your nearest and dearest?