Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-12-07 (Saturday)

On Sun, 8 Dec 2024 15:08:26 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
wrote:

BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

On Dec 8, 2024 at 11:22:53 AM PST, "Arthur Lipscomb"
<arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
 

Body Snatchers (blu-ray) 1993 sci-fi movie based on the 1954 novel by
Jack Finney about alien pods that come to Earth and take over by copying
people.  This version moves the action to an army base which means there
are plenty of weapons and people trained to use them to fight back.
This is a very underrated movie with a great cast that includes Meg
Tilly, R. Lee Ermey, and Forest Whitaker.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11aUKrc_b9c

 
One of the scariest scenes in all of the horror film genre, IMO. Here's a
slightly longer version that doesn't cut off the best part:
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk2gIdLgwz4
 
"Where're you gonna go? Where're you gonna run? Where're you gonna hide?
Nowhere. Because there's no one... like you... left."
 
And then the scream. The way the score suddenly ramps up to punctuate it...
the first time I saw this in the theater, I actually got physical chills.
 
 
 

>
Eek

It never impacted me that much. Maybe because I didn't see it in the
theater and things typically don't seem as scary when you see them in
your home than on the big screen. (Though now some people have screens
and sound systems that can have the same impact.)

That said the idea that you might be alone in a world of not people
that just want to remake you into one of them isn't comforting at all.
Not one bit.