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Originally Posted by Gazjam

Great to pass down the love of good film, my Dad did it with me...hope Im doing the same with the boy!

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He loves all the old horrors especially Hammer stuff. He has a great collection.

Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 classic... Psycho, starring Anthony Perkins,Janet Leigh, Martin Balsam and Vera Miles. Written by Joe Stefano and based on a book by Robert Bloch, it was budgeted under a million. Needless to say it made money and continues to. After the death of Hitch, a string Of spinoff films appeared .

This is from my Amazon library

Good cast for this 1978 remake of Jack Finney's the body snatchers novel of 1955. Stars include Donald Sutherland, Leonard Nimoy, Jeff Goldblum and Brooke Adams.
Screenplay is by W D Richter and directed by Philip Kaufman, who also directed The Right Stuff in 1983, which was nominated for several academy awards winning 4, was a huge critical success and yet bombed at the box office... critics eh, what do they know.:lol:

anyway, back to the bodysnatchers; I like this version and although the original is great in its own way, i prefer this.

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Originally Posted by struth

Good cast for this 1978 remake of Jack Finney's the body snatchers novel of 1955. Stars include Donald Sutherland, Leonard Nimoy, Jeff Goldblum and Brooke Adams.
Screenplay is by W D Richter and directed by Philip Kaufman, who also directed The Right Stuff in 1983, which was nominated for several academy awards winning 4, was a huge critical success and yet bombed at the box office... critics eh, what do they know.:lol:

anyway, back to the bodysnatchers; I like this version and although the original is great in its own way, i prefer this.

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Good remake but doesn't have the force of the original, classic 50s paranoia thriller.

Interestingly Kevin McCarthy was in both films.

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Originally Posted by struth

Interestingly Kevin McCarthy was in both films.

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Oh yeh, a reprisal of his last scene in the original. The film seems as relevant today as ever.

Not generally big on remakes but I liked this. Not to say I don't like the original for it's good points too. I have both.
They were going to remake, or add to the krell story too, but so far it's failed to get off ground. Not sure if that would be a good idea

Maverick. 1994 stars Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster and James Garner.

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History of Mr Polly. Stars John Mills and Sally Ann Howes. . Quality film all round this

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Dial M For Murder from Alfred Hitchcock stars Grace Kelly and Ray Milland. Made in 1954