Results tagged “bodysnatchers”

, a play about the people of a village transforming into the aforementioned animals, as a statement against fascism.

Judging by the, as of this writing, abysmal freshness rating of 18% on Rotten Tomatoes, a lot of people don't agree with me, but I thought The Invasion was a pretty good movie. It's apparently the fourth film adaptation of a story originally told in a Collier's magazine serial (and which was later turned into a novel), but the only other movie version I've ever seen was the first one - 1956's Invasion of the Body Snatchers. That film, which is quite excellent, used the concept of a secret invasion of plant-like aliens who could replace humans with not-quite-perfect-replicas while they were asleep as a metaphor for Cold War paranoia. The 2007 version of the film takes the horrifying concept of our loved ones - and ourselves - becoming weird emotionless others that we don't recognize, and goes off in an entirely different direction with it, using it as a stepping-off point to examine humanity and its relationship to violence, and concluding finally that the lasting terror will come not so much from outer space, but from ourselves.

What's new and/or interesting in Philly theaters this weekend.