Keith's Horror Show Episode 7: Invasion of the Body Snatchers Franchise ranking

I will be cutting down the original list of franchises by a bit just to make it easier on myself, the franchises still in the running will be listed at the end. Also for this list I will be including The Faculty as it's very inspired by Invasion of the Body Snatchers. 5th: The Invasion (2007) - With a stacked cast you'd think this would be a home run film right? But no, it completely fundamentally misunderstands what made the original so good, and fails to justify it's own existence. Daniel Craig and fucking Nicole Kidman are in this, James Bond is in this movie and yet we still managed to make a shitty mediocre retelling of the invasion of the body snatchers story with zero sauce. It's kind of crazy how bad this is considering how much star power was behind this. 4th: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) - It's very good, especially for a classic 50's horror film, but I honestly just found the other 3 movies to be far more entertaining, better paced and left more of an impression on me. I wanted to like this one much more than I actually do, but it's still a very good movie. 3rd: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1993) - I ranked this above 56 because I like the pacing more, I found the characters less interesting but the effects are far better, I love some of the performances, but the practical effects really carry this movie, holy shit they still look fantastic even 30+ years later. 2nd: The Faculty - I adore The Faculty, the first big Elijah Wood movie and you instantly see exactly what people saw in him. The effects are still quite good, all of the characters are the best of this franchise for the most part and the acting across the board is fantastic. It's a peak movie and if you have paramount+ (or pirate it idgaf) you should definitely give this movie a watch. 1st: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) - This is in my top 25 favorite horror films of all time, it's truly a near masterpiece from the horrific effects to one of the best endings in horror movie history, a stacked cast of older actors like Donald Sutherland and Leonard Nimoy. It's the best version of this story we have ever gotten and will likely ever get, it's peak, it's fantastic, please watch it if you haven't before. And with Invasion of the Body Snatchers down we now have 4 franchises left to go, Excited but also nervous to rank all of these, it's a long list. Franchises Done: Halloween, Cube, Hellraiser, Children of the Corn, Friday the 13th, Scream, Invasion of the Body Snatchers Franchises to go: Nightmare on Elm Street, Candyman, Psycho, Silence of the Lambs