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4K Ultra HD Film Review | Arrow Video
The Invasion (2007) • Limited Edition 4K Ultra HD [Arrow Video] — muddled attempt to update the Body Snatchers franchise
A doctor fights to protect herself and her young son (and maybe all of humanity) from an insidious alien invasion.
It’s sometimes said that the best horror succeeds by injecting disquiet into the everyday; by turning the things we thought were safe and reliable, homes or people or places or objects, into sources of threat. In this light, the various screen incarnations of Jack Finney’s novel The Body Snatchers — from 1956, 1978, 1993, and 2007 — tap into the most fundamental horror imaginable, the fear of losing control of our bodies, of our minds no longer being “us”.
This is, of course, very similar to the fear that zombie stories build on, and that has also been exploited creatively in countless other films from Robert Hamer’s “Haunted Mirror” story in Dead of Night (1947) to Jordan Peele’s Get Out (2017). But it also resembles certain fears of disease. Cancer is, at least in part…