Mark, Jonah: I’m afraid you guys are out to lunch on Invasion of the Body Snatchers. I haven’t seen this latest remake, but the 1978 version was much superior to the 1956 one. Among film buffs there seems to be a powerful need to believe that “the original was better.” Sometimes it was, sometimes not.

The 1978 Invasion was the first scary movie my son ever watched, and it imprinted itself deeply on his infant faculties. We still trade phrases from it sometimes: “She much better now …” etc.