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* [[Assimilation Plot]]: [[Discussed Trope|Discussed]] in this version.
* [[Body Horror]]: The remake answers the question of what happened to the people whom the pods replaced. {{spoiler|They melt}}.
* [[The Cameo]]: Quite a few; the star of the 1956 version, Kevin McCarthy, [[Remake Cameo|plays a man crying, "They're here!"]] (just like the end of the 1956 film); [[Creator Cameo| the 1956 version's director, Don Siegel]], plays a cab driver; Robert Duvall plays a priest near the beginning of the film; and [[The Grateful Dead|Jerry Garcia]] can be heard on the soundtrack playing the banjo.
* [[Cleanup Crew]]: The garbagemen.
* [[Dutch Angle]]: The remake features many bizarre camera angles to emphasize disorientation and isolation.
* [[Eat the Camera]]: Ends this way.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: When the group are being chased by the Pod people, {{spoiler|Jack and Nancy}} sacrifice themselves to the pod people [[We Need a Distraction|as a distraction]] to allow their friends to escape.
* [[Hope Spot]]: The "[[Soundtrack Dissonance|Amazing Grace]]" scene.
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