Category:Film:MindTransferDoppelgangers

Films involving either mind transfer, possession, or the complete physical replacement of human bodies and minds with alien or demonic substitutes ("pod people").

Note that Lovecraft all but helped to invent the modern possession story, having written a number of stories involving the bodies of human characters getting possessed by the disembodied spirits of ancient wizards or alien minds projected across time and space into their human hosts.

There is, after all, only a fine line between Lovecraft's descriptions of a human character's body getting "possessed" by aliens or wizards in stories like Shadow Out of Time (fiction) or Thing on the Doorstep (fiction), and what we see in The Exorcist - the only real difference being the superficial trappings of religion in The Exorcist which would only barely be out of place in Lovecraft's atheistic universe....