Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Directed by Don Siegel • 1956 • United States
Starring Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, King Donovan
One of the most influential and unsettling films of the 1950s, Don Siegel’s sci-fi/horror classic charts the escalating panic that grips a California town as residents find their friends and loved ones being replaced by emotionless alien “pod people.” Interpreted as an allegory for everything from the McCarthyist fear of Communist infiltration to the stifling conformity of the Eisenhower era, INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS transcends its drive-in B-movie origins to become a still-terrifying vision of a society’s descent into mass hysteria.
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
One of the most influential and unsettling films of the 1950s, Don Siegel’s sci-fi/horror classic charts the escalating panic that grips a California town as residents find their friends and loved ones being replaced by emotionless alien “pod people.” Interpreted as an allegory for everything fro...
Extras
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INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS Commentary
This commentary features film professor Maurice Yacowar analyzing INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS in depth.
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VIDEODROME Commentary: David Cronenberg and Mark Irwin
This commentary features director David Cronenberg and director of photography Mark Irwin, and was recorded for the Criterion Collection in Toronto and Los Angeles in 2004.
