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The Dominator reviews
Terror Vision/Warner Home Video
- Cert: 15
- Running time: 111 minutes
- Year: 1978
- Cat.no: S055134
- Sound: Dolby Surround
- Widescreen : 1.85:1
- Price: £12.99
Director:
- Philip Kaufman
(The Right Stuff, Henry and June, Rising Sun)
Producer:
- Robert H. Solo
Screenplay:
- W.D. Richter
(based on Jack Finney’s “The Body Snatchers”)
Music
- Danny Zeitlin
Cast:
- Matthew Bennell: Donald Sutherland (Don’t Look Now, Klute, Backdraft)
Elizabeth Driscoll: Brooke Adams (Lace, Gas Food Lodging)
Dr. David Kibner: Leonard Nimoy (Star Trek, The Simpsons)
Jack Bellicec: Jeff Goldblum (The Fly, Jurassic Park)
Nancy Bellicec: Veronica Cartright (Alien, The Right Stuff)
Forthose not in the know, this film is the remake of the 1956 Don Siegel classic andbreaks the convention of most remakes, managing to be just as good as theoriginal.
The story has been updated and is now set in San Francisco, with DonaldSutherland as a public health inspector, assisted by Brooke Adams. When the citybecomes covered in spider’s webs, Adams begins to notice changes in thebehaviour of her boyfriend as he becomes seemingly distant.
This is happening all over the city, and while Sutherland doesn’t want to believewhat Adams is telling him, he soon comes round to her way of thinking.
Jeff Goldblum and Veronica Cartright play a couple of come across one of the blankpod bodies before Goldblum is affected.
Kevin McCarthy, who starred in the original version, makes a cameo role picking upexactly where he left off at the end of the original.
Picture quality is very good, and the surround sound adds to the ambience of thefilm in just the right moments.
Review copyright © Dominic Robinson, 1996.
Reviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same year. Running DVDfever.co.uk since 2000. Nobel Peace Prize winner 2021.