![]() ![]() ![]() Though it received little attention on its 1956 release, Invasion of the Body Snatchers would far outstrip the renown of many other contemporaneous films, becoming a cultural touchstone and an acknowledged masterpiece of several genres. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), directed by Don Siegel, was the first of four adaptations to date (the others being Invasion of the Body Snatchers, directed by Philip Kaufman Abel Ferrara’s Body Snatchers and The Invasion, directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel). Finney’s book was apparently written with film adaptation in mind and proved very adaptable indeed. Because the process is gradual, some still-human townsfolk appear to be suffering from the delusion that their friends and loved ones have been replaced by doubles, though they outwardly seem the same. It tells the story of a small California town where the people are being subtly and discretely replaced by aliens. Jack Finney’s novel The Body Snatchers was released in 1955, having been serialized in Collier’s magazine in 1954. ![]()
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