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{{quote|''Look, you fools. You're in danger. Can't you see? They're after you. They're after all of us. [[You Have to Believe Me|Our wives, our children, everyone. They're here already. YOU'RE NEXT!]]'' |'''Benell''''s last words.}}
Miles Benell is a doctor in the small town of Santa Mira whose patients start accusing their family and friends of being impostors. They can't explain their suspicions -- there are no physical or
However, Benell soon discovers that the patients were right. The people of Santa Mira are being replaced by alien doppelgangers, identical duplicates grown in pods, which replaced them while they slept. Behind their perfect mimicry of humanity, including emotions, is a soulless void. The pod people have no culture of their own, only what they have copied from humanity, and they have no goal beyond survival.
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Usually interpreted as a [[Red Scare|metaphor for Communism]], although some view it more as an indictment of McCarthyism and small-town insularity and conformity. There have been several [[Homage|homages]] and three remakes:
* ''[[Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 film)|Invasion of the Body Snatchers]]'' (1978)
* ''Body Snatchers'' (1993) was a [[Gender Flip|gender flipped]] (and teenage) version set on an Army base starring [[Burn Notice|Gabrielle Anwar]]. More personally focused than the earlier versions; significantly the heroine's step-mother is one of the first to be duplicated and the family dynamic plays a big part in the movie. The film also got some mileage from its military setting and the fact that the protagonist herself was already somewhat
* ''The Invasion'' (2007), another [[Gender Flip]] version with Nicole Kidman is regarded by most as being the worst of the lot - amongst many changes they dropped the idea of alien replacements entirely going for a simple ({{spoiler|and reversible}}) version of [[The Virus]].▼
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▲''Body Snatchers'' (1993) was a [[Gender Flip|gender flipped]] (and teenage) version set on an Army base starring [[Burn Notice|Gabrielle Anwar]]. More personally focused than the earlier versions; significantly the heroine's step-mother is one of the first to be duplicated and the family dynamic plays a big part in the movie. The film also got some mileage from its military setting and the fact that the protagonist herself was already somewhat detatched from the community.
▲''The Invasion'' (2007), another [[Gender Flip]] version with Nicole Kidman is regarded by most as being the worst of the lot - amongst many changes they dropped the idea of alien replacements entirely going for a simple ({{spoiler|and reversible}}) version of [[The Virus]].
* [[Alien Invasion]]: Sounds like it. [[Captain Obvious|From the name]].
* [[Assimilation Plot]]: All of them
* [[Cassandra Truth]]
* [[Covered in Gunge]]: The 2007 version.
* [[Creepy Child]]: {{spoiler|Two of Oliver's friends}} in the 2007 version. {{spoiler|Both were infected by the virus}}.
* [[Evil Twin]]: Kinda.{{context}}▼
▲* [[Evil Twin]]: Kinda.
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▲** The 2007 version had a woman reprising the Kevin McCarthy performance, and then getting hit by a car.
* [[Never Sleep Again]]: The Pod People can only replace you when you sleep.
* [[Only Sane Man]]: By the end of the original film, Bennell, and no one left unaffected believes him.
* [[Puppeteer Parasite]]
▲* [[Replicant Snatching]]: The entire premise of the series.
* [[Stepford Suburbia]]
* [[Twist Ending]]:
* [[The Virus]]: The 2007 version. It still causes a pod people [[Transformation Trauma|transformation]] when the victim sleeps, though.
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[[Category:The Criterion Collection]]▼
[[Category:National Film Registry]]
[[Category:Horror Films]]
[[Category:Danny Peary Cult Movies List]]
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[[Category:The Fifties]]
[[Category:Hugo Award]]▼
[[Category:Films of the 2000s]]
[[Category:Films of the
▲[[Category:Hugo Award]]
[[Category:Films of the 1950s]]
▲[[Category:The Criterion Collection (LaserDisc)]]
[[Category:Invasion of the Body Snatchers]]
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