It was with that chilling image gnawing at my mind that I began listening to the audiobook of 1955’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Jack Finney, upon which the Sutherland and as well as earlier (1956) film are based. I found that alien shriek terrifying, and I still do. I stumbled onto the now iconic scene while watching television one day and it absolutely traumatized me. The image of Donald Sutherland at the end of the 1978 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers-mouth yawning open, eyes rolled back, finger stabbing at the screen-haunted me throughout my childhood. Silently, subtly, almost imperceptibly, alien life-forms were taking over the bodies and minds of his neighbors, his friends, his family, the woman he loved-the world as he knew it.įirst published in 1955, this classic thriller of the ultimate alien invasion and the triumph of the human spirit over an invisible enemy inspired the acclaimed 1956 film, directed by Don Siegel and starring Kevin McCarthy, one of Time magazine’s 100 Best Films. Miles Bennell discovered an insidious, horrifying plot. On a quiet fall evening in the small, peaceful town of Mill Valley, California, Dr. All I can do is tell what I know.”-from the book “I warn you that what you’re starting to read is full of loose ends and unanswered questions….Now if you don’t like that kind of story, I’m sorry, and you’d better not read it. Themes: / Science Fiction / Invasion / Aliens /
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