Many have debated the meaning behind INVASION OF THE BODY SNACTHERS. Also, the ending Siegel wanted seems a little hokey. Though Siegel was opposed, MOVIEGUIDE® thinks the new ending provides a needed catharsis for viewers. The studio made Siegel tack on a prologue and a happy ending to lighten the relentless terror in the story. The climax near the end is one of the most devastating scenes in movie history. INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS is one of the most chilling, spellbinding science fiction movies ever made. The question becomes: Can Miles and Becky stay awake long enough to escape the evil pod people and warn the rest of the country? Just as suddenly, however, the little boy says nothing’s wrong.Įventually, Miles and his girlfriend, Becky, discover that the people in the town are being replaced by alien “pod people,” who replace the townspeople’s souls and bodies while they sleep. The story starts with a little boy who suddenly says his mother is not really his mother, but a monster. In 1956, he filmed one of the best, most memorable science fiction movies of all time (despite its B movie pedigree), INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS.īased on Jack Finney’s classic novel of the same name, INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS stars Kevin McCarthy as Miles, a young doctor in a small California town who finds some of the people in the town acting weirdly unemotional. Content:īefore he started doing major Hollywood releases with Clint Eastwood like COOGAN’S BLUFF and DIRTY HARRY, Director Don Siegel was a master of B movies like THE BIG STEAL (1949), RIOT IN CELL BLOCK 11 (1954), EDGE OF ETERNITY (1959), HELL IS FOR HEROES (1962 with Steve McQueen), and FLAMING STAR (1960, a B western with Elvis Presley). INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS is a brilliant movie. Thus, it can be seen as a warning about losing one’s emotions, individuality, compassion, and moral conscience to a cold, pitiless, robotic, or pseudo-intellectual conformity. However, the story can also be viewed on a more personal, psychological, theological, universal level. The best film scholars believe that the movie is an anti-communist allegory from the 1950s. The question becomes: Can the doctor and his girlfriend stay awake long enough to escape the evil, emotionless pod people and warn the rest of the country? The doctor discovers that emotionless, totalitarian pod people from outer space are replacing the townspeople’s souls and bodies while they sleep.
Based on a novel by Jack Finney, the movie tells the story of a young doctor in a small California town. INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS is a classic science fiction movie from 1956 by Don Siegel.
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