![]() It features Kevin McCarthy as Miles Bennell a local doctor who finds himself inundated with patients claiming impostors have replaced their loved ones. This is the crux of Don Siegel’s still chilling small-town set 1956 original adaptation Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, (not to be confused with the Val Lewton produced 1945 grave robbing horror flick The Body Snatcher). Finney had tapped into the paranoia of an era and a very primal fear concerning the loss of human identity. Even if it was unconscious on the author’s behalf, the story’s proposed political undertones have subsequently allowed generations of filmmakers to creatively reinterpret it to reflect their individual eras. Nevertheless, considering the times, it wasn’t exactly irrational to propose such an analysis. However, its rather inconspicuous author largely dispelled notions that it was an allegory on communism or the importance of individuality. ![]() Set in small-town America and concerning intergalactic organisms taking over humankind via emotionless replicates who ‘get you when you sleep’, Jack Finney’s 1954 short story The Body Snatchers was published during the height of McCarthyism. ![]()
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