10 Greatest Apocalypse Movies Of All Time
6. Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1978)
While the original Invasion Of The Body Snatchers is a tour de force of acting talent, the 1978 remake increased the tension, ramped up the (often grotesque) special effects, and generally made for a more complete film.
Paranoia looms large in San Francisco, as extraterrestrials quietly attempt to take over our world by invading the bodies of human beings one by one, transforming the entire race into pod people. They look the same, they sound the same, but underneath their human facade, they're aliens who want nothing more than to drain the life out of you and your loved ones.
It's certainly a slow burner compared to other, more popular films in the genre. After all, there's no nuclear bomb, no fast-acting disease... it's just aliens playing dress up in human meat suits. Which, when you get right down to it, might be the most inherently terrifying way for civilization to come to an end.
Based simply on the chosen method of world destruction, Invasion Of The Body Snatchers will always be one of the top apocalypse movies of all time.
And the one-two punch of Donald Sutherland and (an incredibly fresh-faced) Jeff Goldblum is one of the greatest things to be captured on film in the last 50 years. So that doesn't hurt, either.