INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1956–2007) - “They're Coming! They’re Here Already!”

INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1956) d. Don Siegel (USA)
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1978) d. Philip Kaufman (USA)
BODY SNATCHERS (1993) d. Abel Ferrara (USA)
THE INVASION (2007) d. Oliver Hirschbiegel (USA)

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The theme of an alien entity occupying or replacing the bodies of those nearest and dearest to us had been utilized in horror cinema throughout features as plentiful and varied as Invaders from Mars, It Came from Outer Space, Planet of the Vampires, It Conquered the World, I Married a Monster from Outer Space, The Stepford Wives, The Thing, The Faculty, and many more. But it is producer Walter Wanger’s 1956 production of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, directed by Don Siegel, and starring Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter, which has come to exemplify the concept.

THE DEAD ZONE (1983) movie review

Dead Zone, The (1983) d. Cronenberg, David (USA)

Driving home from his girlfriend’s house one rainy night, Christopher Walken crashes into a runaway jackknifed milk truck canister (certainly a genre first), ending up in a coma for the next five years. Upon awakening, he discovers that his sweetheart has married another man, but even more dramatically, he now possesses the ability to know people’s past, present or future simply by making physical contact with them.