Double Bill Tickets
Standard - £10
Conc. - PWYC*
Patron - £8
Single film tickets available on the door.
Doors 3.00 PM
First Film 3.30 PM
Second Film 6.30PM
Welcome to Sci-Fi Sundays YEAR 2 at Deptford Cinema. Join us for a special screening on the last Sunday of the month. Split again into 4 quarterly mini-seasons our 2020 programme will delve into themes of paranoia and invasion, marvel at the mysteries of the mind, journey across the universe and show you that nothing is quite what it seems…
Alongside each screening we’ve organised a little something extra; quizzes, short-films, expert talks discussions and much more.
This year Sci-Fi Sundays is pleased to be working alongside another Deptford Cinema science fiction season - Is This Yesterday? A film season exploring issues of invasion, atomic power and the red threat in 1950s Hollywood Sci-Fi.
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS
dir. Don Siegel
starring. Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter
country. USA
year. 1956
runtime. 80 MINS
rating. PG
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS
dir. Philip Kaufman
starring. Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Jeff Goldblum Leonard Nimoy
country. USA
year. 1978
runtime. 115 MINS
rating. 15
The first two adaptations of Jack Finney’s 1955 novel, The Body Snatchers, share many similarities; themes of paranoia and fear of losing ones “self’ and the antagonists in both are extra-terrestrial replicas grown from pods, but both these films are also products of their time.
Don Siegel’s 1956 film is set in post World War two, idyllic green belt America. Kaufman exchanges this setting for claustrophobic, Post-Watergate San Francisco in his 1978 version.
Both films use Finney’s original kernel of an idea as a springboard to explore themes that reflect the zeitgeist of the social and political contexts the films were made in. Siegel’s film has been read as both a warning of creeping communism or as an attack on Middle Class American conformity and McCarthyism. Kaufman’s film explores themes of social anxiety, psychotherapy and the family unit. The threat of disruption by outsiders was often the subject of science fiction of the 1950’s whilst by the 1970’s the enemy was often much closer to home.
These films also reflect the film the making style of the time- the original focuses on the big ideas whilst the 1978 version makes the most of progression in special effects to make a much grosser finished product.
“Incredible! Invisible! Insatiable!”
“Watch out! They get you while you’re sleeping!”
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