![]() ![]() The film’s setting is different-the fictional Santa Mira, near L.A., replaces the real Mill Valley, north of San Francisco, though both represent Small Town U.S.A. Though panned by critics of the day, the story had enough chops to spawn adaptations as much as half a century later.įans of the 1956 version, which starred Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter, would find the novel quite familiar, the others, not so much. First published in 1954 in serial form by Collier’s magazine, the story came out in book form a year later, and a revised edition appeared in 1978, likely to coincide with the release of the second movie. (See my post, “ Is ‘Outstanding Remake’ An Oxymoron?”)īoth these films, plus two subsequent ones in 19, have their origins in a novel titled, The Body Snatchers, by Jack Finney. (See my post, “ They’re Here Already!”) Or perhaps the excellent 1978 remake of the same name. ![]() More than likely these folks, as kids, saw the same movie-the 1956 classic sci-fi thriller, Invasion of the Body Snatchers. ![]() In it, they awaken one morning to discover that their mother is not their mother, or their favorite uncle is no longer their uncle…or sister, or father, or whomever. During my many decades-or is that centuries?-living o n this planet I have encountered a number of people who’ve shared the same childhood nightmare. ![]()
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