Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

Published: March 13, 2023, 8:43 p.m.

People not acting themselves, strange plants growing on surfaces, and bodies crumbling to dust? Sounds like our kind of flick! Tune in as Chris chats about Pod People, Leonard Nimoy, & superior remakes. Plus special guest John Seavey of Half-Price Horror stops by in the sidecar to share his take, as the the LSCE screens the 1978 sci-fi horror classic "Invasion of the Body Snatchers." Join us!   

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Works Cited:

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Freund, Charles. \u201cPods Over San Francisco.\u201d Film comment 15, no. 1 (1979): 22\u201325.

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Hodgkins, John. \u201cDouble Vision: Adaptation, the Uncanny and Invasion of the Body Snatchers.\u201d Adaptation\u202f: the journal of literature on screen studies 14, no. 1 (2021): 64\u201377.

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\u201cRe-Visitors From Outer Space or How I learned to stop Worrying and Love the Pod\u201d. Featurette.  2007 MGM Studios Inc.

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Hurley, Kelly. \u201c\u2018Type H\u2019: Medicine, Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis in the Body Snatchers Films.\u201d Horror studies 6, no. 2 (2015): 195\u2013210.

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\u201cInvasion of the Body Snatchers (1978).\u201d American Cinematographer (Archive: 1930-2015). Hollywood: American Society of Cinematographers, 2007. Article Link. Accessed 2/27/23

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Meeker, Natania, and Ant\xf3nia Szabari. \u201cFrom the Century of the Pods to the Century of the Plants: Plant Horror, Politics, and Vegetal Ontology.\u201d Discourse (Berkeley, Calif.) 34, no. 1 (2012): 32\u201358.

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Norton, Elizabeth Harmon. \u201cMonsters Like Us: Reexamining \u2018Invasion of the Body Snatchers\u2019 through the Decades\u201d. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2016. Article Link. Accessed 3/1/23.

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Poll. \u201cFilm Reviews: Invasion Of The Body Snatchers.\u201d Variety (Archive: 1905-2000). Los Angeles: Penske Business Corporation, 1978.

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Weiner, David. \u201cWhy \u2018Invasion of the Body Snatchers\u2019 Still Haunts Its Director. The Hollywood Reporter. December 20th, 2018. Article Link. Accessed 3/1/23.