Invasion of The Body Snatchers 1978 -- OPENING TITLE SEQUENCE 

I absolutely loved that opening sequence as a kid. In reality atmospheric entry / solar radiation would burn up anything un protected and gelatinous like that. Fortunately.

Great opening sequence, watching the pods invade San Francisco on a gray chilly afternoon. It sets the mood nicely.

to see how easily an alien invasion COULD happen...chilling!

I remember seeing this in the theater with my dad when it came out in 1978.

I think this is one of the best remakes ever

What's most chilling about this film it's not the typical giant UFO that visits earth packed with aliens. This hypothetical alien life is something that is undetected really. It's more believable to me that alien life would come to earth this way.

this movie is absolutely amazing in every aspect. i have loved it since i was a child. for a very long time now i have been watching it at least once every year. i'm a huge movie buff but this is one of few movies that i need to keep re-watching.

These are some of the best pre-CGI visual effects of all time. 👍🏻

The noises in this opening had my cat's eyes popping open wide and scanning the room.

Extremely sad to hear of the passing away of Donald Sutherland today. The Invasion Of The Bodysnatchers, remains for me the greatest example, of his 'idiosyncratic genius'!! RIP Donald!!❤

When I heard the heartbeat of my unborn child for the first time I thought of this film :-)

The "buzzing" sound is part of the movie. I own this and have watched it countless times and the audio in this clip is exactly the way it should be. Thanks for posting. Amazing film.

The music when the pods ascend into space sounds so oddly awe inspiring.

The first time I heard my daughter's heartbeat on a doppler, I was like.....fucking BODY SNATCHERS.

One of the best film openings ever. It feels so real, so alien. CGI these days doesn't have the same sharpness and distinction that practical effects did back then. CGI (when it noticeably CGI) just looks bland and monotonous and makes me feel so outside of the film. This sequence draws me in.

Pure cosmic horror. These opening scenes are a tribute and recognition to the cosmic horror of H. P. Lovecraft and his many-times plagiarized creatures. Just as Carpenter's The '82 Thing is a recognition of Lovecraft's work "In the Mountains of Madness," so said by Carpenter himself, this remake of Kaufman is also a recognition of Lovecraft's mythology. It could be said that Jack Finney was inspired by the "Mi-go", beings that were fungi, that is to say, between the animal and the vegetable and that obviously reproduce by spores. The Mi-go could control humans since they could perform brain surgery and also introduce other organs to be able to communicate with other humans. Another inspiration for Finney was "The Ancients", since their anatomy is the same as plants and animals and they reproduce by spores or bipartition.

Philip Kaufman made a beautiful sci-fi/horror film - and this is it Watch the whole film. This outstanding music, plays off of all the energy of the original film. Then, as the film gets underway, it reverts to those incredible sound effects. It just works!

The Main Title opening to this awesome movie is one of the best and it gets better. I love the scene where Donald, Brooke, Jeff and Veronica are sleeping and the pods start to open and grow, how the special effects team pulled it off was brilliant. Robert Bridgend Wales

Great film! I remember seeing this at the Drive-In theater in 1978. I was 12 at the time.

A bit of consolation for you folks who worry about the nihilistic ending of this film and the final fate of humanity. The 1978 Jack Finney novelization of this film (adapted from his original work) has quite a different ending. Hard to say more without spoilers, but it is beautiful and melancholy at the same time. Well worth a read.

What’s intriguing is how innocuous it looks. Even if you notice it, you wouldn’t think anything of it: a weird fast growing flower and some snot, no one would care until it’s too late.

That noise is them invading

Why does everymovie that take place in San Fransisco, Like this classic. Always reminds me of The Room. Hey, maybe it is secretly an spin-off and Johnny is an alien.

and now 43 years later San Francisco.. yep makes total sense

In my opinion this was as good as the original. You would think though that the seeds would have been incinerated upon entering our atmosphere.

Apparently, this opening was not supposed to be of an alien world, but actually Earth in the distant future after being completely consumed. According to the director's trivia anyway. Doesn't really explain the other planets in the background..

The Pulse - Pounding Precision of a Paranoid "Pod"- Cast. ... Who are the unemotional, somnambulant drones who spitefully denied this absolutely top-drawer "Me Decade" redo of at least a paltry smattering of "Oscar" nods? I am well aware that genre pictures, let alone remakes, tend to get short shrift from the cantankerous, white-haired cruds within the Academy but this little Sci'-Fi' '70's sizzler was clearly deserving of some "Above the Line" nominational love. Not to mention Chapman's coldly-clinical off-kilter San Fran' lensing and Zeitlin's memorably offbeat One-Off incidental scoring. Whenever I put scissors to paper, I am always reminded of a stylishly primped, Disco' era Sutherland's "Matthew Bennell" and the remaining balance of that fabulously real leading-four ensemble. From the most excellent secondary cast, an Art Hindle Genetic Duplication Trimester Trifecta would be completed with the busted NBC pilot "The Clone Master", also from '78, then Cronenberg's chilling child-custody manifesto "The Brood" as the placenta-ripping Midnight Finale. Every -"Body" Needs Some - "Body" Sometimes...

There's a scream-face at 1:03

So, did they target Earth specifically, or did they just float off into space and see where the solar winds take them?

Easily one of the best openings I've ever seen. The entire scenario is told to us with only visuals, and it's quite clear that something from outer space is manifesting on earth

Chubby Rain!

The beginning of this movie is so creepy and messed up.

Just f'ing fantastic! The sound design is fantastic and I completely understand why Phil would want US, his audience to hear the sounds of the aliens. The soundtrack didn't kill it completely, but it came close to it! The film is crazy, amazing and great.....anymore superlatives?

Incredible movie. I can actually see this happening in some sort of way. Where someone decides they need to upgrade the human race.

I’ve never really understood how to pods work

amazing movie, watched it a few days ago, just awesome XD

The Original and this one are my Favorite.

It's strange, but on occasion I've found similar substance in the rain before

I love this movie and it's a shame that it doesn't get shown on British TV any more as this is just a terrific remake of a great film from the 50s. I also think the UK quad poster 30x40 inch for this creepy but in all fairness Super movie is a striking poster which I have seen on eBay and am seriously interested in buying. I would love to see this on 2 Dvds.

This explains our proclivity for Lilac Vegetal....

Well, that is pretty interesting to show the aliens coming here and how maybe the rain helped them survive. But I still don't see why they remade the damn film anyway with a darker ending.

Anyone know what were looking at? Like what they used for the special fx. it seems to be something through a microscope

So Excellent!

Invasion via Panspermia maybe from an interstellar asteroid like Oumuamua as it passes the Earth.

How they travelled across the space?

Could you please fix the annoying buzzing sound?

The atmosphere of this opening scene is perfect. But even as a kid I knew this was ridiculous. Space is much, much, *much* too big for this to be even remotely possible. Spores spreading through interstellar space? No..

Does anyone.know where I can watch this movie that's not netflix or where I can buy it I tried looking in moviestop but got no luck :(

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they say one of the ways our world could end is due to alien seeds and spors

i love this opening, but what's wrong with the sound?!

While the music is good, there was something confusing about it. During the shots where the pods are floating into space it seems to be stuck between awe and terror. Not sure if it was intentional but it threw me off.

Anyone out there know how they made this sequence? The Aliens that is.. are they some real life sea animal lava or something similar? Definitely not special effects ... anyone??

1:10 you know? I got to wonder if that's planet Mars where those pod things came from.

If I were one of the main actors....I wouldn't have lasted more than 10 minutes into the movie. I can't stay awake past 9:00 at night

Great film, but the idea of gelatinous spores jumping off a planet and floating through space at faster than light speed (and surviving) is ridiculous.

Panspermia. It may be how we got here.

In the clouds at the beginning a pagan 3 of wands ( tarot ) can be seen, was Ira Levin a witch? He did let the Satanists win in Rosemary's baby?

The invasion...of cellphones and tablets.they will deprive you of emotions!!!! Hahahaha!!!

Morgellons....😔😔😔

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I like this opening scene quite a bit but when things start to get going afterwards,the film is hit & miss for me.

#18 down. Trump,, and Clinton did it!

Annoying Buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzing!

if ever a video clip should be obliterated…

And whats the godsam deal with the chick peas! And the motherf-in snow peas....

Why you wannaact like a brussel sprout?! Why?!

Pod squad