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

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.