Invasion of the Body Snatchers is that rare thing, a remake that is as good as the original. There have been countless lousy and incompetent remakes - Stagecoach, for instance, or Father of the Bride. Sometimes they are so bad they have to be concealed under a different title: the remake of Out of the Past was called Against All Odds. Off hand, I can think of only one other genuinely good remake, and that was William Friedkin’s Sorcerer, a truly inspired retelling of the French classic Wages of Fear. Sorcerer was a great film based on a great film; it was also a monumental failure at the box office. Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a good film based on a good film.