What would you do if you suddenly became sure that the person closest to you in your life

was no longer the person you knew. They look like them. They sound like them. But they're different.

Something's wrong.

They come from another world, spawned in the light years of space unleashed to take over the bodies and souls of the people of our planet.

In 1956, director Don Siegel adapted a book by Jack Finney about body-snatching aliens.

This movie perfectly tapped into the fear and paranoia of McCarthy era America.

Then 20 years later, Philip Kaufman directed his own adaptation of the novel, which in turn also

happened to perfectly tap into the bleak, disillusioned and distrustful post-wartigate 70s America.

Both these movies took the concepts of aliens from outer space but grounded them and added an extra

dimension of fear by suggesting that our enemies might in fact look just like us.

Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of alien horror as we discuss two groundbreaking

versions of invasion of the body snatchers.

Welcome back to the evolution of horror. My name is Mike Munster and as ever I am your host.

If you're tuning in for the first time, then welcome. In this podcast, we explore and dissect

the history and the evolution of the horror genre by looking at a particular sub-jummerer's one

series at a time. We are currently in the middle of our seventh series exploring alien cosmic and

sci-fi horror and this is part three in which as that intro suggested, we are going to be deep

diving into two different versions of invasion of the body snatchers. That's the 1956 version

and the 1978 version. Both of these discussions will be spoilerific. I would urge you all to give

these movies a watch. They're both brilliant before listening to our discussion.

Lots to cover. Let's get straight into it. Join me to discuss all things invasion of the body snatchers.

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