Horror News Seventy Years of Insomnia: Why the Horror of the Body Snatchers Never Ages
Seven decades. That is how much time has passed since 1956, when Don Siegel’s black-and-white masterpiece projected a terror onto the screen that would never leave the collective imagination. Celebrating the 70th anniversary of Invasion of the Body Snatchers today is not merely an act of cinephile nostalgia; it is the recognition of a disturbing fact: seventy years later, we still haven’t found a cure for that paranoia.
While other films from that era might make us smile today due to their rudimentary special effects or naive plots, Siegel’s "pod"... Read More |