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[[File:Bodysnatchers 1978film.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Still from ''Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 film)''...]]

* film: ''Invasion of the Body Snatchers'' (1956)
* film: ''Invasion of the Body Snatchers'' (1978)

==Summary==


Numerous adaptations were based on ''The Body Snatchers'', by Jack Finney (1954 pulp serial, 1955 novel); the best-known (and generally best-received) are the 1956 and 1978 film adaptations.

1956 FILM: In Santa Mira, California, Dr. Miles Bennell is baffled when all his patients come to him with the same complaint: their loved ones seem to have been replaced by emotionless impostors. Despite others' dismissive denials, Dr. Bennell, his former girlfriend Becky and his friend Jack soon discover that the patients' suspicions are true: an alien species of human duplicates, grown from plant-like pods, is taking over the small town.

1978 FILM: This remake of the classic horror film is set in San Francisco. Matthew Bennell assumes that when a friend complains of her husband's strange mood, it's a marital issue. However, he begins to worry as more people report similar observations. His concern is confirmed when writer Jack Bellicec and his wife discover a mutated corpse. Besieged by an invisible enemy, Bennell must work quickly before the city is consumed.

==Details==

===Details (1956 film)===
* Release Date: 1956
* Country/Language: USA, English
* Genres/Technical: Horror, Science Fiction, Fantasy, black-and-white
* Runtime: 1 hr 20 min
* Starring: Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Larry Gates
* Director: Philip Kaufman
* Writer: Jack Finney
* Producer/Production Co: Walter Wanger Productions
* View Trailer: ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baoC7F7EWn4 link])

===Details (1978 film)===
* Release Date: 1978
* Country/Language: USA, English
* Genres/Technical: Horror, Science Fiction, Fantasy
* Runtime: 1 hr 20 min
* Starring: Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Jeff Goldblum, Leonard Nimoy
* Director: Don Siegel
* Writer: Jack Finney
* Producer/Production Co: Solofilm
* View Trailer: ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52vK2-Dv1TA 1978])

==Ratings==
===[http://www.mpaa.org/film-ratings/ MPAA Ratings]===

* 1956 and 1978 films are rated: PG (mild violence)

===Tentacle Ratings===
A rough [[Tentacle Ratings|measure]] of how "Lovecraftian" the work is:
* S____ (One Tentacle: Debateably Lovecraftian; has almost no direct connection to Lovecraft's work)

The story is not particularly Lovecraftian, though the space-born vegetable aliens who take over human bodies are common enough Weird fiction tropes, and wouldn't be far out of place among Lovecraft's creations.

''Note: This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.''

===Reviews===

Review Links:
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==Synopsis==

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In Santa Mira, California, Dr. Miles Bennell is baffled when all his patients come to him with the same complaint: their loved ones seem to have been replaced by emotionless impostors. Despite others' dismissive denials, Dr. Bennell, his former girlfriend Becky and his friend Jack soon discover that the patients' suspicions are true: an alien species of human duplicates, grown from plant-like pods, is taking over the small town.
}}

==Notes==

===Comments, Trivia, Dedication===


===Associated Mythos Elements===
* fiction: Jack Finney's novel, ''The Body Snatchers''
* race: [[Body Snatchers]]

===Keeper Notes===

* See race: [[Body Snatchers]]

===See Also===
* ''Contamination'' AKA ''Alien Contamination'' (1980 film) ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6bMP8sF1GA trailer])
* ''Body Snatchers'' (1993 film) ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okW2UfLNaJc trailer])
* ''The Invasion'' (2007 film) ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZjiGfdzQmM trailer])
* ''Invasion of the Pod People'' (2007 The Asylum "mockbuster") ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6U6_IC_GKQ trailer])
* ''Invasion'' (2005-2006 series) ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqCMOBfp9d0 trailer])
* ''Extant'' (2014-2015 series) ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4cWYgQEs6M trailer])


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 * fiction:  Jack Finney's novel, ''The Body Snatchers''
 * race: [[Body Snatchers]]
-* insanity:  '''Capgras Delusion''' is a real psychiatric disorder which causes people to believe people are being replaced by identical duplicates.
+* insanity:  '''Capgras Delusion''' is a real psychiatric disorder which causes people to believe people are being replaced by identical duplicates

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 * See race: [[Body Snatchers]]
-* Keepers wishing to use this story as a basis for a scenario might be interested in playing up parallels to themes from various Lovecraft's stories, in which his generally vegetable-radiate-invertebrate-alien-things, fleeing doomed worlds, swap personalities with human victims (see ''[[The Shadow Out of Time]]'', for example).
+* Keepers wishing to use this story as a basis for a scenario might be interested in playing up parallels to themes from various Lovecraft's stories, in which his generally vegetable-radiate-invertebrate-alien-things, fleeing doomed worlds, might swap personalities with human victims (see ''[[The Shadow Out of Time]]'', for example).  [[Yithian]]s or [[Elder Thing]]s might easily be swapped for the "Body Snatchers" with only small changes to the basic story and/or the by-the-book description of Lovecraft's creations.

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-* S____ (One Tentacle:  Debateably Lovecraftian; has almost no direct connection to Lovecraft's work)
+* SS___ (Two Tentacles: Barely Lovecraftian)
 The story is not particularly Lovecraftian, though the space-born vegetable aliens who take over human bodies are common enough Weird fiction tropes, and wouldn't be far out of place among Lovecraft's creations.
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