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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The screenplay was adapted by Daniel Mainwaring and Richard Collins (uncredited) from the novel The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney.
		Body Snatchers—now available on DVD and digitally remastered—brought respectability to the science fiction genre that emerged in the post-war era, a genre that was exploding on screens around the country, partly due to the numerous post-Roswell UFO sightings.
		In defense of Body Snatchers, he stated, "I think the world is populated by pods and I wanted to show them." He also believed that humans had lost much of their sensitivity because of the advance in military weaponry and the atrocities of recent wars.
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	Invasion of the Body Snatchers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a 1956 science fiction film.
		Sutherland's character appears to be successful in destroying the invasion's pod-growing facility, but this optimistic development is called into question by a twist ending in the film's final seconds.
		A 1993 version, called simply Body Snatchers, was directed by Abel Ferrara (director of Bad Lieutenant), with the story adapted by B-movie auteur Larry Cohen (with Raymond Cistheri) and a screenplay by Re-Animator's Stuart Gordon and Dennis Paoli (along with Nicholas St. John, a frequent Ferrara collaborator).
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	The Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Often overlooked by modern viewers as grade-B science fiction The Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a classic horror film released in 1956.
		INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS is one of those novels that have become part of popular culture.
		Samson Superslug and the Invasion of the Body Snatchers
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	Invasion of the Body Snatchers
		Invasion of the Body Snatchers is one of many films created during the 1950's that reflects both paranoia and concerns about conformity, technology and humanity using science fiction themes.
		A quiet, nonviolent invasion is found in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956, US), a film that echoes cold war paranoia, concern about changing values in modern day society, and fear of the loss of individuality.
		In this film, the alien invasion comes in the form of giant pea pods that hatch into human replicas, silently replacing real humans while they sleep.
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	Gadfly Online.
		In Body Snatchers, the pod people, who, like McCarthy and the other red-baiters, look like typical, fine upstanding Americans, search out rebels like Miles who refuse to conform to what has been newly defined as the "American Way"—just as McCarthy and HUAC destroyed the lives of those who refused to knuckle under to their directives.
		Body Snatchers is set in the small California town of Santa Mira, which is infiltrated by pods from outer space that replicate and take the place of humans.
		Body Snatchers may also be interpreted as anti-scientific, reflecting the fears of a particular decade.
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	Invasion of the Body Snatchers
		It is hard for me to imagine the shock The Invasion of the Body Snatchers must have generated when it debuted in 1956.
		Invasion presents the disintegration of small town America as a peripheral horror, but it is important to the central horror, since small town life is traditionally the product of individuality.
		The central horror in The Invasion of the Body Snatchers is dehumanization.
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	Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a 1956 science fiction / horror film which tells the story of ordinary small town people whose bodies are taken over by aliens.
		The taking-over of ordinary citizens metaphor ically reflected the paranoia in Cold War America of how communism might infiltrate the body politic in such a way that you would have no way of suspecting if your friends and neighbors had been corrupted.
		This meaning of the word is derived from (1) because the human body is considered a whole which is of greater value than the sum of the value of the individual members.
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	invasion of the body snatchers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Silently, subtly, almost imperceptibly, alien life-forms were taking over the bodies and minds of his neighbors, his friends, his family, the woman he loved -- the world as he knew it.First published....
		Invasion of the Body Snatchers is one of the most ingenious and influential works of science fiction ever to "take over" the public imagination.
		Based on the 1955 novel The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney (author of the classic Time and Again), this classic tale of alienation, conformity, and political paranoia has inspired three motion pic....
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		Tied to that fear of depersonalization and the loss of self, however, is another fear, one inherent in the unknowability of other individuals and the recognition of that knowledge, which itself leads to the anxieties that underlie emotional intimacy (with the breakdown of the social contract not far behind).
		Invasion of the Body Snatchers begins in media res when Dr. Bennett returns to Santa Mira from a medical conference, the town is already besieged by an inexplicable epidemic.
		Invasion of the Body Snatchers, unfortunately, suffers from a significant plot hole at the third-act climax.
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	notcoming.com \| Invasion of the Body Snatchers
		Invasion of the Body Snatchers exceeds the other two mentioned, as it transcends the generic trappings of Fifties Sci-Fi.
		The subtext of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, ambiguous as it may be seen, is a transcendent element, and is what has secured the film’s timeless relevance.
		Invasion of the Body Snatchers is superficially about the conventional, trademark conspiracy of hostile aliens in Fifties science fiction, when it can actually be about another conflict altogether.
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	Dual Lens - Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		More accurate titles would have been, possibly, Invasion of the Body Duplicators or Invasion of the Brain Snatchers, but the former is unwieldy to say and the later just sounds disgusting.
		So Invasion of the Body Snatchers it is, but if you’re looking for actual snatching of bodies you’ll have to go elsewhere.
		Dr Miles Bennel in invasion of the Body Snatchers is not a psychiatrist - he is a GP.
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	Amazon.co.uk: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Film Ink S.): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Everyone has heard of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, no less than three film adaptations of the story have been produced, and the book itself remains in print and will surely remain so for the foreseeable future.
		Invasion of the Body Snatchers played upon and drew from this type of internal self-doubt and paranoia, and I believe that is its true secret of success.
		The enemy within is always the most insidious threat, and Invasion of the Body Snatchers is the very embodiment of this most terrifying of fears.
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	THE BODY SNATCHERS
		So far, your team has learned all about the outside of the human body, but you are still stumped about how the humans work on the inside of their bodies.
		Your mission is to snatch and take over 10 internal body parts from the humans, study them, and report back to your alien colony.
		You also learned about the human body, the parts inside of it and why these body parts are important to life.
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	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		And when it rains on San Francisco at the beginning of Phillip Kaufman's 1978 version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, it pours tiny alien organisms who plan to consume and replace the human race.
		Instead of developing Adams' and Sutherland's paranoia by concentrating on the subtle changes around them, Kaufman breezes past this and instead prolongs the third-act chase as the aliens pursue the few remaining human holdouts.
		Although this bottom-heavy imbalance is a tad wearying, this Snatchers has many memorable moments, a chilling atmosphere, and fine supporting performances by Jeff Goldblum, Veronica Cartwright, and Leonard Nimoy.
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	New York State Writers Institute - Invasion of the Body Snatchers Film Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		For all its social awareness, Invasion of the Body Snatchers is also a genuinely creepy film.
		Made in 23 days, on a budget of $380,000, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, like the quiet horror films made by Val Lewton in the 1940's, continues to influence filmmakers and novelists with its combination of plausibility and surrealism.
		Literate, passionate, and compelling, Invasion of the Body Snatchers is the very embodiment -- you may prefer another word -- of the possibilities of the horror cinema.
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	Movie Review: 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The whole town is gradually taken over by these alien "body snatchers"and our hero and heroine (yes, there is a hackneyed love story of sorts) face a desperate need to escape.
		Given the jewish pedigree of "Body Snatchers," this interpretation is highly plausible.
		Television and other mass media have taken over the bodies and are attempting to control the minds of all those Whites who fail to remain awake.
	www.vanguardnewsnetwork.com /lettersOct-Nov03/112903brooksbodysnatchers.htm (929 words)

	Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1956)
		Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) is a thrilling, disturbing classic science fiction/alien film from veteran producer Walter Wanger.
		The screenplay, written by Daniel Mainwaring (who also wrote the script for the classic noir Out of the Past (1947)) was aided, according to some sources, with uncredited scriptwriting and dialogue direction by Sam Peckinpah (the great Western director who appears in a bit cameo part as a meter reader).
		When the duplication process is complete, the real person's body is destroyed and replaced by the zombie duplicate - "taken over" by the pod, without typical human emotions such as anxiety, love, faith, or hope.
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	Hollywood Gothique: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) Review
		The one overtly graphic moment occurs when the seed pods are discovered, disgorging their duplicate bodies amidst a gurgle of gooey bubbles; it's mild by modern standards but still effective enough to make you queasy.
		The cast is strong, even when the characters sometimes seem to be a bit slow reacting to the initial stages of the invasion (for example, after discovering an anonymous body -- actually, a half-formed pod person -- they decide to wait and see what happens, instead of calling the police immediately).
		Of course, thematically, none of this matters: the mechanics of "body-snatching" are not important; the film derives its horror from the fear of losing one's identity and turning into an emotionless pod-person, however that is accomplished.
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	GreenCine \| product main - Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
		Needless to say, Miles and his friends are terrified, but since it's hard to tell who's a person and who's a pod, they're at a loss for what to do, especially when it seems that there are increasingly more aliens than humans.
		Invasion of the Body Snatchers builds tension slowly and steadily, dealing not in the shock of bug-eyed monsters common to other 1950s science-fiction movies but in the unnerving possibility that the enemy is among us -- and impossible to tell from our allies.
		Based on a novel by Jack Finney, Invasion of the Body Snatchers was remade in 1978 by Philip Kaufman and in 1993 by Abel Ferrara (as Body Snatchers); and its influence can be felt from The Stepford Wives (1975) to The X-Files.
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	digihitch Road Shop: Invasion of the Body Snatchers
		Considered one of the best science fiction films of the 1950s and '60s, this classic paranoid thriller was widely interpreted as a criticism of the McCarthy era (that's Senator Joseph, not actor Kevin), which was characterized by anticommunist witch-hunts and fear of the dreaded fllist.
		Released in '56, 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' is an intelligent and insightful sci-fi/horror film dealing with the topic of an alien invasion from another planet perpetrated in a most unexpected and highly original way.
		The Invasion of the Body Snatchers is believably acted and economically written, which helps make it a 5 star thriller.
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	Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
		But when they try to show the bodies to the police they have vanished and they think, in the rationale of daylight, that they have succumbed to the mass delusion too.
		There were a number of other similar films being made around the time all on alien infiltration and takeover themes - It Came from Outer Space (1953), Invaders from Mars (1953), It Conquered the World (1956), The Brain Eaters (1958) and I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958).
		There were two remakes, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) and Body Snatchers (1993), both of which are excellent films.
	www.moria.co.nz /sf/bodysnatchers56.htm (1821 words)

	Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The original 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers' is one of my favourite thrillers of all time, and a very hard movie to top.
		'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers' is a superb example of how to remake a horror classic, and is one of the creepiest and most nerve-wracking thrillers of the 1970s.
		I highly recommend it and the original 'Body Snatchers', they are two of the scariest movies ever made!
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		Philip Kaufman's Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
		There's something about Philip Kaufman's remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, that makes it a different concept from it's 1956 counterpart.
		After watching the classic version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers(1956), I am not at all surprised to hear that it inspired a remake 20 years later.
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	INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS
		Screenwriter Daniel Mainwaring, who adapted Jack Finney's The Body Snatchers for the screen worked with Siegel on Baby Face Nelson, and later went on to write for the hit 60s TV series Wild, Wild West.
		From this aspect, they are like the zombies of old -- only we never bothered to wonder if the zombies were happy in their trance.
		The human counterfeits of Don Siegel's Invasion of the Body Snatchers are those we love, our family and friends.
	www.filmnight.org /invasion.htm (750 words)

	invasion of the body snatchers - movie and tv vault reviews at videovista.net
		Directed by Don Siegel (The Shootist and Dirty Harry, among so many others) and produced by Walter Wanger, Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, like Hawks' The Thing, is a fascinating fusion of science fiction with horror that fed upon the fears of a generation.
		Invasion Of The Body Snatchers avoids this problem because its plant pods assume human form and remain that way.
		The sheer intensity of Invasion Of The Body Snatchers was so great that the studio (Allied Artists) demanded that Siegel toned down the film's ending.
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	Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Well, Invasion of the Body Snatchers first few scenes have Dana Wynter as Becky Driscoll and Jean Willes as Nurse Sally Withers and they are both HOT.
		I have been a big fan of the 1978 version of Invasion for many years and thought what was the point of seeing the 1956 version since the 70s version is so good?
		If you have never seen any of the Body Snatcher movies this would be a good place to start.
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