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Noah Baumbach once opened up about a movie from his childhood that left a lasting impression on him. In a conversation with Lynn Hirschberg, the filmmaker revealed that the 1956 sci-fi horror classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers was a film he wished he could “unsee.”

Baumbach explained, “The movie we saw together that really wrecked me, and it was one of those things that I wished I could unsee it, was Invasion of the Bodysnatchers.”

For Baumbach, the film carried extra weight because of the personal circumstances in his life at the time. He recalled, “The thing is that it also coincided with my parents starting to precipitate the end of [my parents’] marriage,...

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February 27, 2015, marked the 10th anniversary of Leonard Nimoy's death.

Spock may still live on thanks to Ethan Peck in "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds," but without Nimoy, there wouldn't be a Spock. I think Nimoy himself had accepted by the end what a big part "Star Trek" was going to play in his legacy. You don't go from writing "I Am Not Spock" to writing "I Am Spock" without realizing that.

Nimoy played a lot more parts than just the Enterprise's Vulcan science officer, though. He'd been acting for over 10 years before he booked "Star Trek." Some of his other most famous roles were between the cancellation of "Star Trek" in 1969 and its return in 1979, via "Star Trek: The Motion Picture." During that hiatus, Nimoy played the Great Paris on the "Mission: Impossible" TV show, began to host "In Search Of...,...

On Monday April 28 2025, Travel broadcasts Mysteries of the Unknown!

Alien Plague, Body Snatchers and Killer Weed Season 9 Episode 9 Episode Summary

The upcoming episode of “Mysteries of the Unknown,” titled “Alien Plague, Body Snatchers and Killer Weed,” promises to take viewers on a thrilling journey through eerie events and strange occurrences. Set to air on Travel, this episode dives into three chilling stories that will keep audiences on the edge of their seats.

In a sleepy town in Massachusetts, thousands of creepy crawlers emerge, causing panic among the residents. The episode explores how these unsettling creatures disrupt the peaceful lives of the townsfolk. As the mystery unfolds, it becomes clear that something unusual is at play, leading to questions about their origin and purpose.

Meanwhile, a determined detective finds himself entangled in a dark web of crime. He must navigate through a macabre ring of criminals that seems to be linked...

The upcoming episode of “Mysteries of the Unknown,” titled “Alien Plague, Body Snatchers and Killer Weed,” promises to be a thrilling ride for fans of the series. Set to air on Monday, April 28, 2025, at 8:00 Pm on Travel, this episode delves into the eerie happenings in a quiet Massachusetts town.

In this episode, thousands of creepy crawlers invade the town, causing chaos and fear among the residents. The situation escalates as a local detective steps in to uncover a sinister ring of criminals behind the strange occurrences. The detective faces a daunting task, piecing together clues and battling the unsettling atmosphere that has taken over the community.

Meanwhile, a supernatural sickness sweeps across the American frontier, adding another layer of mystery to the unfolding events. This episode blends elements of horror and suspense, keeping viewers on the edge of their seats. With its intriguing plot and spine-chilling scenarios, “Alien Plague,...

A couple of things that we’ve covered on the channel at length are the works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft and the films of gone too soon writer and director Stuart Gordon. For Lovecraft, we have looked at everything from behind-the-scenes drama on The Curse to the accuracy and differences of literary adaptations like The Resurrected. We have given Gordon his time in the sun as well, with deep looks at both his movie Dolls and his Poe adaptation of The Pit and the Pendulum. These two titans have also intersected more than a few times with Gordon making movies out of Lovecraft stories like Dagon and Castle Freak and, most famously and something we have covered on more than a few occasions, Re-Animator. Lost in the shuffle is a collaboration of these two greats that may be the greatest achievement that nobody talks about. From Beyond takes a lot of the elements,...

Batman famously has one of the best rogues' galleries in American superhero comics. But even among that stunning ensemble, writers do play favorites. You can definitely tell, watching the superlative "Batman: The Animated Series," that plant-controlling femme fatale eco-terrorist Poison Ivy (Diane Pershing) was one of the show's preferred villains.

Poison Ivy was one of the first villains to appear in "The Animated Series," debuting in episode 5, "Pretty Poison." The show gave Ivy a partner-in-crime with Harley Quinn (Arleen Sorkin), establishing a friendship (and ultimately romance) that's lasted 30 years. Ivy also got major supporting parts in villain team-up episodes, "Almost Got 'Im" (where Gotham's worst play poker and swap stories about fighting Batman) and "Trial" (where Arkham inmates start running the asylum). In the series' final run of episodes, Ivy even got a dedicated farewell episode: "House & Garden" (written by Paul Dini). As the title suggests, Ivy seemingly reforms...

Christine Elise has shared the screen with Chucky the killer doll several times over the decades, first appearing as the heroine Kyle in Child’s Play 2 back in 1990, then reprising the role for Cult of Chucky (the seventh film in the series) in 2017 and multiple episodes of the Chucky TV show, which ran for three seasons, from 2021 to 2024. JoBlo’s own Ryan Cultrera was able to catch up with Elise at the Ve Neill’s Vampire Weekend convention in California last month and talked with her about her experiences working with Chucky and interacting with the horror community – and you can find out what she had to say by checking out the interview video embedded above.

In addition to her work with Chucky, Elise may be best known for playing Emily Valentine in 12 episodes of Beverly Hills, 90210, a version of herself in the meta revival BH90210, and Harper Tracy in 15 episodes of ER.

The very concept of aliens plays on our collective fear of the unknown; there’s no telling what horrors await in the cosmos. While there are plenty of horror movies that explore that horror by sending humans into space, alien invasion horror movies induce paranoia, tension, and fear by bringing extraterrestrials earthbound to invade in various unsettling ways.

It’s home invasion horror on a massive scale, with humanity often facing apocalyptic doom against the threat of intelligent life from beyond our galaxy.

This week’s streaming picks are dedicated to alien invasion horror movies that unsettle for the eerie, inhuman invaders and their even creepier means of assimilation.

As always, here’s where you can watch them this week.

For more Stay Home, Watch Horror picks, click here.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers – Hoopy, Kanopy, MGM+

This update of the 1956 sci-fi film Invasion of the Body Snatchers is regarded...

The 1990s are hot again here in 2025, with properties including Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer and even Idle Hands all plotting returns. Additionally, Variety reports today that Miramax is headed back to school with a remake of The Faculty now in the works.

Robert Rodriguez, who directed the original The Faculty back in 1998, is returning to produce the remake, with Drew Hancock (Companion) attached to write the screenplay.

The Faculty remake will be produced by BoulderLight.

Written by Kevin Williamson, the 1998 sci-fi horror film starred a cast of hot young talents including Jordana Brewster, Clea DuVall, Laura Harris, Josh Hartnett, Shawn Hatosy, Famke Janssen, Piper Laurie, Bebe Neuwirth, Robert Patrick, Usher Raymond, Jon Stewart, and Elijah Wood.

In that original movie, a group of small-town high school students, including an introverted photographer and a charismatic drug dealer, begin to suspect something’s off with their teachers. After realizing the faculty is,...

January is generally considered a dumping month when studios unload movies that they don’t have a lot of faith in, although some incredible horror films stand in the face of this supposition. While awards season tends to give accolades to films released toward the end of the year, some truly astounding horror movies have carved out impressive legacies despite coming out during January. Plenty of cult classics, surprise hits, and under-the-radar triumphs have proven that January isn’t a lost cause for releases.

Some of the best horrors ever made were surprisingly released in January and defied the longstanding idea that this was a bad time to put out a scary movie. It’s often good to go against the grain and take audiences by surprise during a release window that’s generally quiet when it comes to horror movies. It should also be noted that all following release...

In 2024, a film’s TV debut is hardly ever an event to remember. Not so this Christmas, when the cinema event of the year might just premiere on the small screen…

Remember network premieres? Christmastime, and Christmas Day in particular, used to be full of them. With much of the Northern hemisphere forced to take some time off and the sun setting before we’ve finished lunch, channels knew they had something of a captive audience – one that couldn’t always be satisfied by the same six episodes of Dad’s Army.

Instead, the festive period often turned into a lifeline for the cash-strapped cinephile. With some of recent years’ biggest blockbusters making their way to the likes of the BBC, ITV and Channel 4, there was always the slightest tingle of excitement that came with the knowledge we’d finally – finally – be able to watch Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End...

Abel Ferrara’s sci-fi horror Body Snatchers was largely overlooked in 1993, but it’s aged remarkably well in the decades since.

Movie-goers and film scholars have argued for decades over which side of the political divide director Don Siegel and his collaborators fell on when they made Invasion Of The Body Snatchers at the height of the Cold War in 1956. Did it tap into contemporary fears of an insidious communist takeover, or was it a Crucible-like jab at McCarthyist witch hunts?

Siegel always maintained that he didn’t have politics in mind when he made the film, adapted from author Jack Finney’s novel, The Body Snatchers; he simply intended it to be an entertaining, disturbing thrill ride. And what a thrill-ride it is: starring Kevin McCarthy as a small-town doctor who’s slow to realise his patients – and gradually the entire town – is being replaced by soulless pod people – it’s a tense,...

Jason Statham is one of the biggest and most recognizable action stars of our time. In 2018, the actor blended what he knew best and fought a 75-foot-long shark in The Meg, which was a major success and is soon heading to streaming.

The Meg will swim to Prime Video on November 22. The sci-fi action film is loosely based on Steve Alten's 1997 novel Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror, and had Jon Turteltaub as director from a screenplay by Dean Georgaris, Jon Hoeber, and Erich Hoeber. The movie premiered on Aug. 10, 2018, and was a major commercial success despite its mixed reviews. Other titles joining The Meg on Prime Video in November are Body Snatchers, Gone Baby Gone, Cold Mountain, and the two Carrie adaptations.

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The Meg had...

Thom Yorke began his solo tour of New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, and Japan on Wednesday night in Christchurch, New Zealand, and played a handful of rarities, Radiohead and The Smile cuts, and even a brand new song called “Back in the Game.”

As Yorke alluded to in his recent interview with Double J — where he claimed he didn’t “give a flying fuck” about fans clamoring for Radiohead’s return — he took the stage with a minimalist set-up featuring several large synth machines and a microphone (and no drummer).

He opened the show with an acoustic rendition of the In Rainbows favorite “Weird Fishes/Arpeggi,” and continued with Radiohead’s “I Might Be Wrong.” Yorke went on to play several more Radiohead tracks, including “Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box” (which he debuted solo for the first time ever live), “Bloom,” “How to Disappear Completely,” “Daydreaming,” “Everything in its Right Place,...

Mention the late Donald Sutherland, and chances are the first thing that springs to mind is the horrifying final shot of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978). His frozen face and alien howl put the finishing touches on a truly frightening motion picture. Sutherland made recurring but infrequent appearances in the horror genre, never lightly and always with something interesting to lend to the production. None of them landed with quite the power of Body Snatchers, which continues to resonate to this day. The film is doubly impressive considering that it's a remake.

The original Invasion of the Body Snatchers from 1956 is widely considered not only one of the greatest movies of the decade, but also one of the greatest sci-fi horror movies ever made. Yet, the 1978 version, directed by Phillip Kaufman, tops it in almost every way, which is a remarkable accomplishment considering the masterpiece that preceded it. Other remakes have improved upon the original,...

There are some stories in the history of film that end up being repeated over and over again. Some of these are just simple categories like vampire, werewolf, and zombie films. Some of them get a little more granular and specific like the story of Dracula or Frankenstein’s monster. Finally, we can get even more granular and look at a specific title that has made the rounds a few times. I Am Legend by the wonderful and prolific Richard Matheson was made into three different movies with Last Man on Earth, The Omega Man, and finally I Am Legend. While King Kong and Phantom of the Opera probably have the most, Invasion of the Body Snatchers has the most consistent offerings. The 2007 iteration was a bust but the other 3 are all incredibly solid. With the 90s version turning 30 we thought it was worth seeing if it was a generic...

You used to hear the refrain from horror film fanatics with a lot more frequency – the original was so much scarier.

And while this is still true to some degree (the films of John Carpenter have been remade with an oddly uniform lousiness), there are still plenty of horror films that have been remade well. Sometimes the remakes are just as good as the original. In rare cases, it even surpasses the original.

Here is our definitive list of the very best horror remakes ever.

(United Artists) “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” (1978)

Don Siegel’s 1956 classic “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” is based on Jack Finney’s story “The Body Snatchers,” which was serialized in Collier’s in 1954 and published as a novel shortly after, has been remade several times over the years. But the very best iteration is still the 1978 version, the first since Siegel’s, from director Philip Kaufman and writer W.D. Richter.

Welcome to IndieWire After Dark, where we pick a new theme for our midnight movie programming every month!

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Kick up your feet and get ready to take note. This September, we’re celebrating Back to School Night.

IndieWire After Dark is practicing the fundamentals over the next four weeks, kicking off a fall semester of midnight movies that’s all about students, teachers, parents, and the lethal side of learning. Yes, the following recommendations are education-themed — but they’re also great building blocks for any new students in this school of cinema.

Not unlike Harvard, Yale, or the elite university in “Halloween H20,” the admissions rate for titles featured in our weekly watch-and-rewatch club is competitive. We want to see every Tubi, Freevee, and fringe Shudder effort out there.

Since Jack Finney’s “The Body Snatchers” was first published 70 years ago, screen adaptations — official and unofficial alike — have taken place in small-town USA, Me Decade San Francisco, a military base, high school and so forth. All had a gist in common: humanity being infiltrated and co-opted by a shape-shifting invasive force from outer space. Loosely playing on that theme, Zach Clark’s “The Becomers” adds a new wrinkle, in that this time the body-hopping entities don’t necessarily intend conquest. They just want to co-exist, peacefully. But it turns out they may have chosen the wrong planet and/or species, because they discover today’s mankind is perhaps too messed up to be worth the trouble.

That’s a good premise for the kind of sly, deadpan absurdism Clark aims for here. But despite its fantastical hook, this episodic narrative lands short of the curiously winsome black comedy quirkiness...

This August, Prime Video is bringing you a lot of entertainment with the highly anticipated Season 2 of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, an all-new action-comedy film starring John Cena and Awkwafina titled Jackpot!, and an animated Batman series titled Batman: Caped Crusader. However, for the purposes of this article, we are only including the films that are coming to Prime Video this month and have a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score. So, check out the 10 best films that are coming to Prime Video in August 2024 with a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score.

Fargo (August 1)

Rotten Tomatoes Score: 95%

Fargo is a dark comedy crime drama film written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. The 1996 film follows the story of Jerry, a sales manager who is under a huge debt. To repay his loan he hatches a plan to hire two henchmen to kidnap his wife and...

On July 17, 1926, a theater opened in Portland, Oregon. Talkies were still a year away and the Great Depression hadn’t yet struck vaudeville, so it played host to variety acts, as well as silent films paired with an 8-piece orchestra and organist. It was called the Hollywood Theatre and its popularity grew so rapidly that soon, the entire district around the theater became known as the Hollywood of Portland. Today it remains the last theater of its era still standing in the City of Roses and showcases both first-run films and a wide range of repertory cinema.

Put on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, the theater has three auditoriums, one of which features a 50-foot screen and 384 seats. In 1997, the theater was made a non-profit, with major renovations taking place between 2011 and 2015 that revitalized the marquee and brought back 70mm screening capabilities. Extending its reach beyond its doors,...

It’s the first day of Amazon’s annual Prime Day, with hundreds of products discounted — including prices slashed on horror movies!

We’ve rounded up some of the scariest deals for you…

4K Ultra HD Collections:

The Mummy Trilogy – $26.99 The Shining / 2001: A Space Odyssey / Full Metal Jacket – $29.99 Universal Classic Monsters: Icons of Horror Collection Vol. 1 – $32.99 Universal Classic Monsters: Icons of Horror Collection Vol. 2 – $34.99 The Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection Vol. 1 – $33.99 The Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection Vol. 2 – $34.99 Batman: 4-Film Collection (1989-1997) – $39.99 Resident Evil Collection – $56.49 The Toxic Avenger Collection – $72.50 Rosemary’s Baby / Pet Sematary / Crawl / Smile / Sweeney Todd – $74.49 Universal Classic Monsters: Limited Edition 8-Film Collection – $99.99

Steelbook 4K UHDs:

Insidious – $15.37 Last Action Hero – $17.55 Fright Night – $20.99 King Kong (1976) – $26.49 Friday the 13th: 8-Movie Collection – $29.99 Ghostbusters / Ghostbusters II – $33.99

Individual 4K UHDs:

Brawl In Cell Block 99 – $8.99 Get Out – $9.99 The Thing – $10.99 Escape from L.A. – $10.99 Cloverfield – $10.99 Pacific Rim – $10.99 Godzilla vs. Kong – $10.99 A Quiet Place...

Exclusive: Alongside prepping to shoot his next feature, veteran filmmaker Abel Ferrara is working on a book, he tells Deadline. Entitled Scene, Ferrara doesn’t categorize it exactly as a memoir, saying, “I’m trying to focus it more on the people that I’ve met and all the crazy sh*t in this business and around this business, than on myself. I got some crazy sh*t that’s happened to me for sure.”

Scene is due for release around the middle of next year, in Italy and the U.S. Ferrara wouldn’t be led as to who the American publisher is, but mused, “I can’t believe I actually got a book (deal).”

Ferrara should have plenty of fun material to expound on. Known for his provocative, neo-noir and often controversial content, the versatile indie stalwart has made films including The Driller Killer, King Of New York,...

In the late 1970s, two subgenres of horror began to take off, with both slashers and grindhouse pictures marking a change in the genre. Thanks to films like The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Black Christmas, and Halloween, movies about knife (and chainsaw) wielding killers gave audiences a more realistic type of fear, after the domination of fear fests like The Exorcist and The Omen. The '70s also marked the rise of grindhouse, low budget movies which might have been campy and filled with bad acting, but which were effective thanks to their gritty rawness. In 1979, director Abel Ferrara found a way to tap into both subgenres with The Driller Killer. Ferrara had made his name as a director of adult films, but with The Driller Killer, the future mastermind behind critically acclaimed films such as King of New York, Bad Lieutenant, and Body Snatchers, got to tell a story about madness,...

From the creators of the cosmic horror movie Daniel Isn’t Real, Brian DeLeeuw and Adam Egypt Mortimer, comes Invader, an upcoming sci-fi novel with a very unique twist.

Described as “a horrifying and thought-provoking vision of what it feels like to invade the Earth,” Invader is a deluxe, full-color, illustrated novel about an alien invasion — told from the alien’s point of view! “In a style that’s one part Stephen King, one part David Cronenberg, and one part shattering family drama, Invader‘s gripping text is magnified by twenty full-color illustrations by acclaimed comic book artist Jock.”

The team explains, “DeLeeuw and Mortimer worked together for several years developing the story of an alien invasion using this unique point of view.”

“I love Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” said Mortimer. “All the versions. But what’s always interested me, and what I think has focused most of the work that I’ve done,...

The Invasion (2007) is considered the worst of the Invasion of the Body Snatchers movies, turning the horror story into a big-budget action film. Body Snatchers moved the action to an isolated military base, with director Abel Ferrara working from a screenplay co-written by Stuart Gordon. The most recent was 2007's The Invasion, starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig. The original novel ended surprisingly upbeat, but how do the different iterations of the Invasion Of The Body Snatchers endings stack up?

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Movie Title

Director

Rotten Tomatoes Score

Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1956)

Don Siegel

98%

Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1978)

Philip Kaufman

93%

Body Snatchers (1993)

Abel Ferrara

71%

The Invasion (2007)

Oliver Hirschbiegel

20%

The Invasion (2007) Dr. Bennett Finds...

The Body Snatchers story has been adapted into four movies, with the 1978 version considered the best. The Invasion (2007) was a troubled production that failed to capture the essence of the original story. The 1993 Body Snatchers remake and the 1956 original are highly regarded, with the latter influencing many sci-fi horror staples.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers' tale of humans being replaced by emotionless alien clones has graced screens in four different decades. Jack Finney's 1954 sci-fi novel The Body Snatchers has been adapted into four different movies, each bringing its own unique spin on the tale. While it's become quite common in recent decades for any movie that's popular enough to get remade, it's not very often that the same story gets told in more than two films, barring public domain items like the works of Shakespeare and books like Dracula and Frankenstein.

It's not hard to see why the Body...

Donald Sutherland starred in the 1978 version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, playing Matthew Bennell. The film, directed by Philip Kaufman, is praised for its depiction of 1970s America, ensemble cast, and special effects. Sutherland's performance is praised for his versatility and embodying a desperate victim.

Donald Sutherland, the Canadian actor who recently passed away and was mostly known for films like Don't Look Now, The Hunger Games, and Animal House, among others, was a classic performer who imprinted his own identity on his movies. It didn't matter if he played the lead character or if it was a more secondary performance; Sutherland had the presence needed to make every role a memorable one. Among his most notable renditions was playing Matthew Bennell in Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

Bennell is the lead character in Philip Kaufman's 1978 version of the literary classic by Jack Finney, The Body Snatchers. The second...

Some stories are simply too good to be contained within a single film, and that's especially true in the horror genre. Many film tales of terror have been remade, sometimes as a cash grab, but mostly because these classics are timeless. It doesn't always make sense to attempt rebooting an iconic movie, but often, a fresh take on a classic can be more original than a derivative new property.

They're some of the biggest and longest-running franchises, but horror films can wear out their welcome with seemingly endless, uninspired sequels. Sometimes a reboot is necessary to reignite the fans' passion and hopefully spawn a new franchise. Lots of horror movies have been remade, but the truly great ones have multiple reboots.

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers...

If you were casting a movie about an alien invasion of Earth, who would play the human hero? One of our musclebound action stars, like Dave Bautista or Jason Statham? A magazine-cover beauty like Zendaya or Anya Taylor-Joy? Whatever script you’re working with, it’s unlikely you’d be on the lookout for a mustachioed, soft-spoken, fortysomething man to play a city bureaucrat gradually convinced that everyone around him is being replaced with soulless clones, but it’s this performance by the late Donald Sutherland that makes Invasion of the Body Snatchers...

Billy Ray called him “a prince.” Kiefer Sutherland said his dad was “never daunted by a role, good, bad or ugly.” Horror filmmaker Joe Russo simply wrote, “Rip to the Goat.”

Hollywood is sounding off on the death of Donald Sutherland, the 2017 recipient of an Honorary Oscar who died Thursday in Miami at 88. Stars such as Michael Douglass and Rachel Zegler have responded to the news as well.

Sutherland played key parts in films like Ordinary People (1980), Pride & Prejudice (2005) and The Hunger Games quartet of films based on the books by Suzanne Collins. He was also a staple of Robert Altman’s Mash in the role of Hawkeye Pierce.

“I never had the honor of knowing him personally, but it was the honor of a lifetime to follow in his footsteps,” Tom Blyth, who portrayed a younger version of Sutherland’s Hunger Games character in a prequel film, wrote on Instagram.

Not even legends live forever. Donald Sutherland, the acclaimed Canadian actor with decades worth of roles and awards to his name, has died at age 88, Deadline reports. He is survived by his wife Francine Racette, who he'd been with since 1972. Sutherland had been married twice before meeting Racette, first to Lois Hardwick from 1959 to 1966 and then to the late Shirley Douglas from 1966 to 1970.

Sutherland also leaves behind five children: Kiefer ("24"), Rachel, Rossif ("Three Pines"), Angus ("1917"), and Roeg. All of Sutherland's children followed him into the entertainment business: Kiefer, Rossif, and Angus are actors, Rachel is a production manager, and Roeg is a talent agent.

Born in Saint John, New Brunswick on July 17, 1935, Sutherland had a middle-class upbringing -- his father Frederick was a salesman and his mother Dorothy was a teacher. However, he was also a sickly child, suffering at different points from polio, rheumatic fever, hepatitis, pneumonia, and scarlet fever.

The hit and miss nature of both early 2000s horror and the premise are quite obvious in today’s selection. While the original Willard and its sequel Ben are known entities, it’s not like they are the heaviest of hitters in terms of horror property. In fact, Willard is Exactly the type of property that I will always argue needs a remake. Well, needs is a strong word, but it lends itself better to a remake than something as perfect as the first Halloween or Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Willard is a solid movie but underseen by today’s audience and would have maybe been more attractive to the audiences of 21 years ago who maybe grew up with the original. Sadly, that didn’t happen as it was arguably one of 2003’s biggest flops and that’s a huge bummer because not only is the movie fun with great, mostly practical effects,...

In 2002, M. Night Shyamalan had already done the impossible in Hollywood: He was a director who became a household name. At the time, you couldn’t probably only say that about a handful of directors, the usual suspects: Spielberg, Scorsese, Tarantino. Maybe a few others. But after the blockbuster success of 1999’s The Sixth Sense, which became one of the biggest movies of all time, not to mention a Best Picture nominee, Shyamalan was now a brand. One year after The Sixth Sense, Shayamalan brought us Unbreakable, a brooding, suspenseful drama about a man who’s burdened with a great responsibility he doesn’t even know about. To say it was an unusual take on the superhero genre would be an understatement, and as hard as it is to believe, superhero movies were not a “thing” when Unbreakable came out. So the movie, while respected and destined to build a loyal following,...

The sci-fi classic Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (starring Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Veronica Cartwright and Jeff Goldblum) is out now on 4K Uhd (Blu-ray) and Limited Edition Blu-ray from Arrow Video.

Remakes of great films are usually on a hiding to nothing, but Philip Kaufman’s brilliant update of the 1956 classic Invasion Of The Body Snatchers 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?

Synopsis:

When health official Elizabeth Driscoll (Brooke Adams...

Killer Collectibles highlights five of the most exciting new horror products announced each and every week, from toys and apparel to artwork, records, and much more.

Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week!

Evil Dead Posters from Bottleneck Gallery

Bottleneck Gallery will release two Evil Dead posters today, March 29, at 9am Pst/12pm Est. Set an alarm if you’re hoping to snag one, because they’re going to move faster than a Deadite.

Adam “Readful Things” Perocchi’s The Evil Dead artwork is inspired by the classic RoboCop poster. 24×36 giclee prints, limited to 125, will cost $60. Evil Dead 2 by Jack Gregory is a 24×36 screen print, limited to 75, for $70.

Bad Lieutenant 4K Uhd from Kino Lorber

Bad Lieutenant shoots onto 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on May 21 via Kino Lorber. The 1992 neo-noir crime film has been newly restored in 4K from the original camera negative with Dolby Vision/Hdr.

Stuart Gordon was a cult director known for his wacky strand of comedy-horror and penchant for wildly gory special effects. He got his start in experimental theater before gaining attention with his bold feature debut Re-Animator. From there, he continued to explore horror, sci-fi, and film noir, often collaborating with actor Jeffrey Combs. In particular, he specialized in Lovecraftian horror. In addition to directing, Gordon also worked as a writer on movies like Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, and Abel Ferrara's Body Snatchers.

Abel Ferrara is the maverick director responsible for violent and controversial gems like Ms. 45, King of New York, and Bad Lieutenant. He also helmed the solid 1993 Body Snatchers remake and the 2019 drama Tommaso, starring Willem Dafoe. Although not all of his films were successful on release, Ferrara's work went on to influence subsequent filmmakers like Quentin Tarantino and the Safdie brothers.

This week’s streaming picks will have you seeing double. Doppelgangers are inherently terrifying, or at the very least alarming, for a variety of reasons. In mythology, a doppelganger often acts as a foreboding harbinger of bad news or luck. On a biological level, there’s something unsettling about the discovery of an unrelated person or entity sharing your face.

Then there’s the matter of identity theft, something horror exploits when it comes to doppelgangers. It’s eerie enough to see what appears to be your clone in the wild, but it’s a whole new level of scary when they attempt to take over your entire existence as their own.

This week’s streaming picks highlight the perils of doppelgangers.

Here’s where you can stream them this week.

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Body Snatchers – Criterion Channel

Abel Ferrara’s Invasion of the...

It seems to tickle Graham Yost when people refer to Silo as a sci-fi drama.

Though the Apple series is as high-concept as it gets—the adaptation of Hugh Howey’s novels is about a futuristic community that exists in a massive underground vault with 144 floors — there are no spaceships in Silo. And there are certainly no lasers.

“It’s not science heavy,” says Yost, the clever mind behind FX’s Justified, who created the Rebecca Ferguson starrer for the streamer. “For me, it’s fantasy, it’s whatever. It’s alternate reality, all that stuff. But the key is to make it feel real and lived-in. I mean honestly, if you pick at the science too much, it falls apart.”

Several studios tried to pick apart Howey’s tomes before Silo finally became a small-screen reality. After Howey self-published Wool, the first book in his dystopian series in 2011, 20th Century Fox...

William Shatner. Leonard Nimoy. Nichelle Nichols. These names belong to some of the most influential actors in television history, but they are almost interchangeable with the names James T. Kirk, Mr. Spock, and Uhura. For better or for worse, these names and faces are inextricably tied to the characters they played.

That said, anyone who only knows the cast of Star Trek’s original series as the command crew of the USS Enterprise is missing out on some pretty fantastic acting work elsewhere. Every member of the cast had credits before the first season in 1966, and they all went on to other projects after the show’s cancelation in 1969, even as they reconvened for the feature films. If you don’t want to sift through hours of Westerns and police procedurals, here is a cheat sheet to the best non-Trek performances from the stars of The Original Series.

William Shatner...

Stars: Timothy Haug, Christie Griffin, Miles Taber, Julianne Ruck, Mark Norwood, Whitney Reade | Written and Directed by Jared Allmond

Albie and Penny are having a night out without their two kids. They need it because their once-perfect marriage is falling apart, something that’s obvious from his lack of reaction when she comes downstairs ready to go.

Things do get better, Penny’s mother even says she’ll keep the kids overnight. But things take a bad turn on the way home. And an even worse one when they get home and find a man and woman (Julianne Ruck) claiming to live there. When Albie gets hostile, the man uses some kind of mental power on him.

Compounding their problems, their neighbour Mark (Mark Norwood; Mantra) claims not to know them and the police not only don’t care, they’re actively hostile. They visit Penny’s sister Kimmy (Whitney...

Among the myriad reasons we could call the Criterion Channel the single greatest streaming service is its leveling of cinematic snobbery. Where a new World Cinema Project restoration plays, so too does Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight. I think about this looking at November’s lineup and being happiest about two new additions: a nine-film Robert Bresson retro including L’argent and The Devil, Probably; and a one-film Hype Williams retro including Belly and only Belly, but bringing as a bonus the direct-to-video Belly 2: Millionaire Boyz Club. Until recently such curation seemed impossible.

November will also feature a 20-film noir series boasting the obvious and the not. Maybe the single tightest collection is “Women of the West,” with Johnny Guitar and The Beguiled and Rancho Notorious and The Furies only half of it. Lynch/Oz, Irradiated, and My Two Voices make streaming premieres; Drylongso gets a Criterion Edition; and joining...

Author H.P. Lovecraft's ghoulish stories remain popular among many filmmakers, and now there's a new one to savor: Suitable Flesh. Inspired by the 1930s short story "The Thing on the Doorstep" but with its own modern twist on characters and events, this body horror film isn't afraid to dive into its sexual nature and explore the more cerebral side of the horror genre.

Directed by Joe Lynch, produced by horror legend Barbara Crampton, and written by Dennis Paoli, Suitable Flesh follows the story of psychiatrist Dr. Elizabeth Derby (Heather Graham) as she encounters a young patient, Asa Waite (Judah Lewis), who struggles with a personality disorder. As Elizabeth spends more time with Asa, she begins to suspect something more nefarious is at play, but she also commits the number-one cardinal sin in her profession: She falls for her patient.

Lynch combines elements of neo-noir and erotic thriller with the...

Horror and comedy may seem like opposites – experiences that rarely overlap in the real world – but they have much in common. Both depend on timing, for example, and both use the element of surprise to catch their audience unawares. In the hands of a skillful filmmaker, horror and comedy can be combined to memorable effect, as directors and writers like Edgar Wright, Jordan Peele, Wes Craven, and even Mel Brooks can attest.

The last decade has seen a notable uptick in horror comedies, part of a long push away from the torture porn movement of the mid-2000s. While some can be pretty gruesome, they all find ways to inject plenty of humor into the mix, giving the scares a carnival feeling that readily welcomes the audience in on the fun.

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Goosebumps (2015)

R.L. Stine's YA horror mega-franchise receives a surprisingly jaunty big-screen treatment thanks...

The ’70s shocked you, the ’80s gored you . . . now the ’90s come in for the kill!

The Criterion Channel has announced this year’s Halloween spectacular, which “celebrates an era that saw terror undergo unsettling new transformations.”

The team previews, “In the ’90s, horror movies got bigger budgets, became playfully self-aware, and even won some Oscars—but they’re just as nasty as what came before.

“Featuring cult heroes like John Carpenter (In the Mouth of Madness) and Abel Ferrara (The Addiction) plunging the dark depths of their uncompromising visions, established auteurs like Francis Ford Coppola (Bram Stoker’s Dracula) taking on the genre, and new voices like Ernest R. Dickerson (Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight) and Antonia Bird (Ravenous) offering fresh perspectives on familiar tropes, this selection curated by Clyde Folley offers a hair-raising tour through an oft-overlooked decade in horror that’s ripe for rediscovery.”

The full...

Every generation gets the Invasion of the Body Snatchers movie it deserves. To date, there have been four official adaptations of Jack Finney’s 1954 novel The Body Snatchers and each one adapts its premise to the concerns of the time in which it was made. The deep core of the novel asks, “what exactly is it that makes us human?” and then examines it through a non-human threat that attempts to replicate humanity but just can’t get it quite right. Every twenty years or so, a new version of the story applies that question to the current climate. We are right around that twenty-year mark. We are ready for a new Body Snatchers movie, and it should be about Artificial Intelligence.

In 1954 and 1956 when the novel and the first film version of the story directed by Don Siegel were released, the Cold War was America’s preoccupation. The brilliance...

On Friday nights, IndieWire After Dark takes a feature-length beat to honor fringe cinema in the streaming age.

First, the spoiler-free pitch for one editor’s midnight movie pick — something weird and wonderful from any age of film that deserves our memorializing.

Then, the spoiler-filled aftermath as experienced by the unwitting editor attacked by this week’s recommendation.

The Pitch: Sad Puppy-Seeing Soccer Himbo Seeks Refugee Son

For lovers of soccer and movies about hot guys being dumb, it’s been the highest of highs and the lowest of lows lately.

“Barbie” became a bona fide cultural phenomenon by giving us something we never knew we needed: Ryan Gosling running around as a sexy Beach professional who does a shockingly decent Rob Thomas impression despite having nothing going on behind his eyes. The performance was a reminder that men are just as capable of playing the ditzy sidekick as...

Movies about clones have been around for ages and are easily a fan favorite. Netflix's new movie "They Cloned Tyrone," which hit the streamer on July 21, is no exception.

The film stars Hollywood hotshot John Boyega along with Teyonah Parris and Jamie Foxx. The trio work together to uncover a government cloning conspiracy that sees agents watching the lives of Black people so they can make them vanish and replace them with clones. The movie's twist ending is sure to stick with you long after the credits roll.

If you're finished watching "They Cloned Tyrone" and itching to see more movies about clones, check out the list below, and soon you'll be seeing double.

1. "Oblivion"

Tom Cruise stars as Jack, a member of a team tasked with surveying the smoldering ruins of planet Earth in the year 2077, 60 years after a battle with aliens where Earthlings lost. While on his journey,...

The latest addition to the ever-expanding Marvel Cinematic Universe, Secret Invasion, is a high-octane streaming series event that looks to blend the more fantastical science-fiction elements of the MCU into the political paranoia thriller wheelhouse the MCU has dabbled in before on projects like Captain America: The Winter Soldier. The first episode of the series has plenty of ambition but mixed results.

Opening with a monologue delivered by Richard Dormer, delightfully playing up his role as a man on the edge in a way that fits immediately into the tonal space of classic '70s paranoid thrillers like All the President's Men or The Parallax View, things get off to a strong start. As written by Kyle Bradstreet and Brian Tucker, the opening lines of the episode highlight some direct parallels between the uncertainty of our modern age and the uncertainty of the Cold War era. It reaffirms Secret Invasion...