Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Ep. 103)

Adapt or Perish

Happy Halloween! We didn't want to break our streak of getting spooky for the holiday, so for episode 103 we're diving into sci-fi horror with the paranoid classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers!

In this episode we discuss:

• The Body Snatchers, Jack Finney's original 1956 novel
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), directed by Don Siegel, written by Daniel Mainwaring, and starring Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, and Larry Gates
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), directed by Philip Kaufman, written by W.D. Richter, and starring Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy, Jeff Goldblum, and Veronica Cartwright
• Body Snatchers (1993), directed by Abel Ferrara, written by Stuart Gordon, Dennis Paoli, and Nicholas St. John, and starring Gabrielle Anwar, Meg Tilly, R. Lee Ermey, and Forest Whitaker
• The Invasion (2007), directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, written by David Kajganich, and starring Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Jeffrey Wright, and Veronica Cartwright

Footnotes:

• Capgras delusion
• "This is Reality" from TV Tropes
• Jeff Goldblum's IMDb profile
• "Why ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ Still Haunts Its Director", The Hollywood Reporter's interview with Philip Kaufman
• Roger Ebert's Review of Body Snatchers (1993)
• Meg Tilly's blog post about her Body Snatchers body double
• "Cool Glitch Effect On Movie Studio Logo Must Mean Shit About To Go Down" from The Onion

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