Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) | |
| Director(s) | Don Siegel |
| Producer(s) | |
| Top Genres | Film Adaptation, Horror, Science Fiction |
| Top Topics | Aliens, Book-Based |
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) was a Horror - Science Fiction Film directed by Don Siegel .
SYNOPSIS
This is the height of paranoid science-fiction terror made at the height of McCarthy-era paranoia. A small-town doctor (McCarthy) becomes the last man with a conscience when pods from outer space begin to reproduce inside their human hosts, draining all humanity from them. When he gleans the truth, a race begins to get the word out before it's too late. Long seen as a parable about individuality and the danger of conformity and group-think. Breathless, suspenseful, and the best of its kind. Remade successfully in 1978. The laser release includes a wide-screen version, commentary, including an interview with director Siegel, and trailers. Based on the serialized story in Collier's magazine by Jack Finney.
(Source: available at Amazon AMC Classic Movie Companion).
.Invasion of the Body Snatchers was inducted into the National Film Registry in 1994.
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Terror in the Garden – ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ (Don Siegel, 1956)
By Virginie Pronovost on Nov 8, 2025 From The Wonderful World of CinemaWhen one thinks of 50s American cinema, a plethora of genres surface in our minds, but one took a particularly significant place during that decade and touched, directly and metaphorically, the socio-political context. I’m thinking of science fiction. If the genre evolved through the years pri... Read full article
Silver Screen Standards: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
By Jennifer Garlen on Jun 8, 2023 From Classic Movie Hub BlogSilver Screen Standards: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) Many remakes have followed in the wake of the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), the iconic science fiction film adapted from a serialized novel by American sci-fi writer Jack Finney, but the first outing for this terrify... Read full article
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956, Don Siegel)
By Andrew Wickliffe on May 6, 2019 From The Stop ButtonThe longest continuous stretch of Invasion of the Body Snatchers is about fifteen minutes (the film runs eighty). Small California city doctor Kevin McCarthy and his long-lost lady friend Dana Wynter have just spent the night holed up in his office, hiding from their neighbors, who have all been rep... Read full article
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956, Don Siegel)
By Andrew Wickliffe on May 6, 2019 From The Stop ButtonThe longest continuous stretch of Invasion of the Body Snatchers is about fifteen minutes (the film runs eighty). Small California city doctor Kevin McCarthy and his long-lost lady friend Dana Wynter have just spent the night holed up in his office, hiding from their neighbors, who have all been rep... Read full article
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956, Don Siegel)
on May 6, 2019 From The Stop ButtonThe longest continuous stretch of Invasion of the Body Snatchers is about fifteen minutes (the film runs eighty). Small California city doctor Kevin McCarthy and his long-lost lady friend Dana Wynter have just spent the night holed up in his office, hiding from their neighbors, who have all been rep... Read full article
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Quotes from
Becky: I don't want to live in a world without love or grief or beauty, I'd rather die.
Dr. Miles J. Bennell: [having returned from finding that large numbers of pods are being grown in greenhouses, to Becky who, exhausetd, had fallen asleep in his absence] I've been afraid a lot of times in my life, but I didn't know the real meaning of fear until... until I had kissed Becky.
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Facts about
The film originally ended with Miles J. Binnell on the highway shouting to the people driving by, "You're next, you're next!" However, the studio wanted a happier ending that would assure the audience that the hero's efforts were not in vain, so scenes were added to the opening to show Miles in a hospital recounting his story to two other doctors and to the end when the other doctors find out about the pods and one of them contacts the FBI.
Only $15,000 of the budget was spent on special effects.
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