{"id":1045,"date":"2014-03-10T05:28:47","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T18:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/?p=1045"},"modified":"2014-03-10T05:28:47","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T18:28:47","slug":"review-invasion-of-the-body-snatchers-1956","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2014\/03\/10\/review-invasion-of-the-body-snatchers-1956\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a big fan of Body Snatchers films and the various remakes and clones, so I guess it is<a href=\"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/invasion-of-the-body-snatchers-1956-film-review-shelf-heroes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1046\" alt=\"invasion-of-the-body-snatchers-1956-film-review-shelf-heroes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.australianbroadcastingmedia.com.au\/publishing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/invasion-of-the-body-snatchers-1956-film-review-shelf-heroes-300x192.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a> something of a surprise that I had never gotten around to watching the original 1956 version. This is unusual for me and something I have since rectified!<\/p>\n<p>I must say that of all the various films following much the same story this one is my supreme favourite now! \u00a0Filmed in Black and White in a time when the Cold War and McCarthyism was rabid, the film takes on a paranoid veneer somewhat missing in the later versions. You can almost feel the &#8220;reds under the bed&#8221; atmosphere in every scene. Scenes where the whole town swiftly changed from normal small town everybody-going-about-their-business-USA to an alien invasion in an eye blink, somehow worked better than the cities later versions revolved around. There is a brilliant scene where the town is alive and thriving on a Saturday morning, which suddenly changes to a nightmare as trucks full of pods arrive. Seemingly normal people immediately drop everything they are doing&#8230;very creepy!<\/p>\n<p>I guess the only thing I did miss was Leonard Nimoy from the eighties version turning the tables on us after he is taken over (Mr Spock what are you doing?) , but we can&#8217;t have everything!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a big fan of Body Snatchers films and the various remakes and clones, so I guess it is something of a surprise that I had never gotten around to watching the original 1956 version. This is unusual for me and something I have since rectified! I must say that of all the various &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/2014\/03\/10\/review-invasion-of-the-body-snatchers-1956\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Review: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}