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