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Kino Lorber have detailed their upcoming 4K Blu-ray and Blu-ray releases of Don Siegel's cult film Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), starring Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Larry Gates, King Donovan, and Carolyn Jones. The two releases are scheduled to arrive on the market on June 25.
"They're already here! You're next!" With these chilling words, Invasion of the Body Snatchers sounded the clarion call to the dangers of conformity, paranoia and mass hysteria at the heart of 1950s American life.
One of the greatest and most influential science fiction films ever made, Invasion stars Kevin McCarthy (Nightmare, Mirage) as Miles Bennell, a doctor in a small California town whose patients are becoming increasingly overwrought, accusing their loved ones of being emotionless imposters. They're right! Plant-like extraterrestrials have invaded Earth, taking possession of humans as they sleep and replicating them in giant seed pods. Convinced that a catastrophic pandemic is imminent, Bennell, in a terrifying race for his life, must warn the world of this deadly invasion of the pod people�before it's too late!
This is the original adaptation of Jack Finney's eerie tale, produced by Walter Wanger (Scarlet Street, Cleopatra) and directed by Don Siegel (Dirty Harry, Charley Varrick) in beautiful black-and-white Superscope. One of the mightiest cult classics of cinema is now scarier and timelier than ever!
Special Features and Technical Specs:
DISC ONE - 4K BLU-RAY
NEW 4K RESTORATION OF TWO VERSIONS OF THE FILM - IN 2.00:1 AND 1.85:1 RATIOS
DOLBY VISION/HDR PRESENTATION OF THE FILM
NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historians Steve Mitchell and Nathaniel Thompson
NEW Audio Commentary by Professor and Film Scholar Jason A. Ney
Audio Commentary by Actor Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter, Moderated by Legendary Filmmaker Joe Dante
Audio Commentary by Film Historian Richard Harland Smith
Optional English Subtitles
DISC TWO - BLU-RAY
NEW 4K RESTORATION OF TWO VERSIONS OF THE FILM - IN 2.00:1 AND 1.85:1 RATIOS
NEW Audio Commentary by Film Historians Steve Mitchell and Nathaniel Thompson
NEW Audio Commentary by Professor and Film Scholar Jason A. Ney
Audio Commentary by Actor Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter, Moderated by Legendary Filmmaker Joe Dante
Audio Commentary by Film Historian Richard Harland Smith
The Fear is Real: Featurette (12:26)
The Stranger in Your Lover's Eyes: Featurette (11:54)
No Longer Belong � The Rise and Fall of Walter Wanger: Featurette (21:08)
A long time coming, but so very happy to finally have a release date. One of my favorite Sci-Fi films of all time. Now if they could do the same with The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951). That deserves a 4K restoration too. Until then, this will definitely be added to my collection on day one.
Good commentaries (e.g. Joe Dante's) are welcome, but Kino has too many tracks that sound like someone's reading the IMDB and Wikipedia entries for each member of the cast and crew.
I can't watch this movie with the studio imposed optimistic ending. I saw the original version on the sci-fi channel where it ended with Kevin Mccarthy on the highway looking at the pods and that was the correct conclusion.
This is very exciting news! And this will hopefully be an easy upgrade over the Olive release. Can't wait to rewatch this one in 4K! Iconic film, and I'm very curious about the two different ratio options for this.
Day 1 for me !!! : ) I have the 2 Olive Bluray's and a HD Digital version. This one will be my "New" Go To version. : ) Thanks KL ! You guys are #1 with me. ; )
Already pre-ordered this on Kino Lorber. The original classic is the best one. The other two remakes are garbage. Also have The Manchurian Candidate on 4K. Again, the original classic is the best one, while the Denzel Washington remake is garbage.
This could be huge. The film was not shot for widescreen, but was cropped to 2.0 Superscope to cash in on the widescreen craze. This resulted in awkward framing and exaggerated film grain. The uncropped version has been assumed lost, so the big question is: Has the original 1.85 version been found, or is this just the 2.0 cropped down a second time?
I can't think of another Hollywood film made during the Hays Code that was even remotely scary, besides Psycho, and I still don't know how Hitchcock did it. He was a master of getting around the rules.
First of all, Day freakin� One! This is one of the KL discs I�ve been waiting for! While there�s tons of great discs this year, this is one where they just went above and beyond the call of duty. This could easily be the disc of the year, in what�s poised to be the best year ever for catalog discs.
TV2693 I wonder why that hasn�t been included here. It should be, since I agree that ending is better.
Moleman TL;DR, the 1.85:1 version on this disc is the original 1.85:1 version.
The film was shot on standard 35mm film, shot for 1.85:1, and the negative was just fully opened up. It wasn�t hard matted like some films were. Usually they would either make prints that were identical to the negative and then the projectionist would apply a 1.85:1 matte plate to the projector, or in some cases the studio would apply a 1.85:1 matte in post production and the prints would be widescreen, although that wasn�t very common.
Where things went wrong for this film is the studio decided to release the film in Superscope AFTER the film was shot and edited. Siegel was pissed, but they overrode him. As a result, some prints were released at 2.00:1, while others were released at 2.55:1. It�s unclear whether the prints were your usual 1.37:1 prints and the matte was applied by the projectionist, whether they were hard matted by the studio, or a combination of the two. But either way, the film was rarely if ever seen at the intended 1.85:1 aspect ratio. While I�m sure a few rogue projectionists screened it at 1.85, I haven�t found any hard proof of that.
When KL got the negative (I believe Paramount now owns the rights and the elements outright but don�t quote me), KLI claimed it was one of the worst elements they�d ever seen, and put a lot of time, money, end effort into repairing it and restoring it. It was an open matte, 1.37:1 negative, and it seems that it was just supposed to be screened at 1.85:1 in theaters. In other words, everything would�ve went normally had the studio not stepped on Siegel�s toes. After KL were done restoring it, they set two aspect ratios, the correct aspect ratio of 1.85:1 that Siegel preferred, and the more common ratio of 2.00:1. The 2.55:1 ratio is missing, but honestly it�s no real loss. You�d be getting less than half of the picture. A 1.37:1 version would�ve been cool, but again it�s not a dealbreaker.
Jexes23 Hitchcock incurred the wrath of the censors at least once, when he made Psycho. Half of the MPAA (or whatever it was called back then) were fine with the original cut, and half of them weren�t. They sent him back to do edits, but he just kept the print intact. He went back six weeks later, screened the same print, and everyone flip-flopped. The people who had a problem were now calmed, and the people who had no problem before now had one. They eventually got him to make some cuts (I believe 14 seconds of them), and that cut version was the only one released for decades. They then found that one print of the censored cut, and the cuts were then restored.
Feel free to completely downvote me as well, but I have to agree with TheArgentinian, this many commentaries from "film historians" and a "film scholar" is completely unnecessary. Give them an essay in a booklet instead. Actors, directors, people involved in the production (special effects, etc), I always welcome those. Hopefully they're just Stereo and don't take up too much space on the Blu-ray. And with well over 40 minutes of additional special features, I'm somewhat concerned about putting both versions on one Blu-ray disc, if they will be sacrificing the encodes. Call me old but I'm still in the Blu-ray crowd rather than the 4K crowd, watching on a projector, a non-HDR presentation is more faithful to the original theatrical experience for me. So I still care about the 2K presentation and always hate to see it sacrificed when they fill a single disc with both the movie and all the special features, sometimes at the expense of the movie itself.
I like the original and the 1978 one. I started watching Invasion after I learned that too was another remake. Instead of remakes, why don't they make a sequel?
@BrokenGlast41- Don Siegel's original ending was just Kevin MCcathy on the highway screaming about the pods. The studio imposed the optimistic ending where he wakes up in the hospital and tells military officials what's going on. So tacky.
You need to stop posting inaccurate information about this film, especially with regard to its aspect ratio. It was shot for 1.85.1 and released in 2.00.1. That's it. It was never released in 2.55.1. Also, while it was originally thought this restoration would be sourced from the OCN, that information turned out to be incorrect. It is therefore sourced from other elements.
Shot for 1.85, yes. Exhibited at 2.00:1, yes. 2.55:1, sadly also yes. Per my Criterion laserdisc, it was in fact exhibited at 2.55:1 on some occasions.
Don�t kill the messenger. I�m not the moron who decided cutting half of the image out of the frame would make it look better. It�s basically reverse pan-and-scanning, for lack of better words. This is why the Superscope system sucked. There were so many second variables, more than other widescreen processes, that it was almost guaranteed to go wrong somewhere along the line.
As for the OCN, admittedly I haven�t been following the KL thread as closely as I should. After this was initially teased a while ago (well over a year ago now), someone asked KLI for updates, and the answer boiled down to �we have the OCN, it�s a shitshow on stilts, it�s one of the worst elements we�ve ever worked with, but we�re working with it�. That was at least seven months ago now. If you could give me more accurate info on the elements, I�d really appreciate it.
Will be getting but don't care for commentaries by people not involved with the film. Besides not watching many current films because they're generally made by and depressingly made FOR hipster-doofuses, it really annoys me when I buy a film made by actual artists and it has a hipster-doofus attached to it. Would love to see the original ending too. Nag nag
MaxRenn made by and for idiots who usually sit there on their phones while the movie plays. Not only did movies as a whole get dumber but so did the audience.
@TV2693 The original ending has not ever been shown on TV or released on video. It's debated whether Don Siegel even had a personal print of this version.
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