Body Snatchers - one of the best ?

I actually think the 1956 version is the best. That's one of the first movies to give me nightmares and leave me with a sense of paranoia at a young age. Not too many films were able to do that to me. I recently saw it at Chicago's Outdoor Film Fest and it was great seeing it on the big screen. The '78 and '93 versions were okay, but they just didn't do much for me.

As for The Faculty, I thought that was really a melting pot of different alien invasion movies e.g. The Thing. They could've used the Misfits song Walk Among Us.

I love the original - it is a classic sci-fi movie in every sense of the word.

But the 78 version is filled with such end of the world dread...I think it's very creepy.

I have all the respect in the world for the '56 version.

With that said, the '78 version is the first film I recall seeing.

EVER.

Seriously, my first cinematic memory. Saturday morning (more like early Friday, being it was easily before 5 or even 4, I'd never seen the sky look like that before), I woke up after a bad dream and wanted to see if cartoons were on yet.

They weren't, of course... but HBO had something on that I watched for some unknown reason.

I recall seeing about 3/4 of it (with the hindsight of seeing the entire film later), and I loved it. It was like I was growing pubes instantaneously - my world was never the same. One of my favorite parts that I honestly recall crying at because it was just so aces was when Jeff Goldblum runs down the street to distract the pod people, screaming "COME AND GET ME!" and they give chase with a chorus of alien shrieks. Heroic sacrifice always gets me, and seeing his fate just a bit later was sad but wild at the same time (my household was very conservative, so I was raised on Disney, Indy, and SW... this was a whole new world for me). The ending gave me chills, but all I could do was grin like an idiot.

About a week later, Fox premiered THE FLY, and I recognized Goldblum and watched half of it before I was grounded for watching such "garbage." Doesn't matter, though, because I saw a man sacrifice himself to pod people in vain, and then begin mutating into an insectoid.

And I've been a geek ever since.

the dog/man hybrid is still creepy to this day.

I had a phobia of potted plants after watching the 78' version. It was that GOOD.

The latest version is good, but not really a classic in my eye.

The Abel Ferrara version? It was alright.

I like the first use of the pod people shriek in that one. And Gabrielle Anwar is hot.

I hear there's another remake in the works...

Farrar's version has its moments, if you can get past Whitiker's stuttering ham job, and Tiley's stoned out interpretation that gives new meaning to the sublime.

While the original was pretty good, I have to say the 70s version was much more effective. I couldn't sleep after watching it, particularly the ending. I haven't seen the whole thing again since.


AS for the Faculty, I freaken love that movie...particularly watching it on network tv, cause the dubbing over the swear words cracks me up.