TV Guide: Invasion Of The Body Snatchers

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TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:54:25 -0400

A suburban doctor (Kevin McCarthy) runs into a strange complaint: people say their relatives aren't their relatives anymore.

Video: Invasion of the Body Snatchers - (Movie Clip)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:54:24 -0400

Miles (Kevin McCarthy) and the other humans finally see how they are being replaced in this scene from Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956).

Video: Invasion of the Body Snatchers - (Movie Clip)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:54:23 -0400

A man finds a corpse, but one that doesn't seem to be completely formed in this scene from Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956).

Video: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:54:23 -0400

Soulless pods take over the inhabitants of a small California town in the science-fiction classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956).

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TV Land — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:50:46 -0400

Opened: 06/15/1957

Video: Invasion Of The Body Snatchers

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:01:38 -0400

Don Siegel's classic exercise in psychological science fiction has often been interpreted as a cautionary fable about the blacklisting hysteria of the McCarthy era. It can be read as a political metaphor or enjoyed as a fine low-budget suspense movie, and it works well either way. Kevin McCarthy stars as Miles Bennel, a doctor in the small California community of Santa Mira, where several patients begin reporting that their loved ones don't seem to be themselves lately. They look the same but seem cold, emotionally distant, and somehow unfamiliar. The longer Miles looks into these reports, the more stock he places in them, and in time he makes a shocking discovery: aliens from another world are taking over Santa Mira, one citizen at a time. Emissaries from a distant planet have sent massive seed pods containing creatures that can assume the exact physical likeness of anyone they choose. When Santa Mirans go to sleep, the pod creatures take on the shape of their victims and then destroy their bodies. The alien

Video: Invasion Of The Body Snatchers

Video Detective — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:01:54 -0400

This remake of the 1956 horror classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers moves the action from small-town USA to 1970s San Francisco and replaces at least part of the original's psychological horror with special effects. Spores rain forth, unseen, from outer space, and soon strange flowers begin popping up all over the city. After bringing one of these hybrid specimens home with her one night, biologist Elizabeth Driscoll (Brooke Adams) notices that her live-in boyfriend, Geoffrey (Art Hindle), doesn't seem like himself; he's cold and distant and somehow just not quite there. When she turns to her friend Matthew Bennell (Donald Sutherland), a colleague at the Department of Public Health, he convinces her to see his friend Dr. Kibner (Leonard Nimoy), a pop psychologist who argues that the problem is all in Elizabeth's head. Soon, though, Matthew and Elizabeth begin to notice that people all over the city are changing subtly and inexplicably. When their friend Jack Bellicec (Jeff Goldblum) and his wife Nancy (Vero