Aliens are replacing the population of San Francisco with glassy-eyed pod people.
Philip Kaufman’s update of one of the most famous sci-fi movies of the ‘50s replaces the original’s paranoid, stranger-among-us Red Menace subtext and gives it a decidedly Me Decade ‘70s twist. Aliens are replacing the population of San Francisco with glassy-eyed pod people. Conformity and post-Watergate distrust are the targets here, and Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, and a truly amazing Leonard Nimoy seem to be the only sane people left to sound the alarm. Come for the ‘70s turtlenecks, stay for the icy cold terror.