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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 behaviouralbehavioral changes -- but they are still convinced that the people they suspect are [[Not Himself|no longer themselves]]. Bennell and his colleague, Kaufman, initially assume this is merely mass hysteria, a diagnosis which seems to be confirmed when the patients start recanting their accusations.

''Invasion of the Body Snatchers'' (1978) starred Donald Sutherland as Benell (now named Matthew instead of Miles) and transferedtransferred the setting to [[The City]] (San Francisco) and worked in an effective theme of urban alienation, which in some respects actually reverses the theme of the original - at one point a character expresses her paranoia that she keeps witnessing people ''recognizing'' each other. Isolation is so much a feature of city life that excessive human contact itself is suspicious. This version also cranked the [[Body Horror]]; appropriately, three of the film's stars (Brooke Adams, Art Hindle, and Jeff Goldblum) all went on to do films with [[David Cronenberg]]. Thanks to its critical acclaim and high performance at the box office, it is considered one of the best horror remakes.