Don Siegel’s taut, bleak, noir-flavoured picture is arguably the science-fiction B-movie of the 1950s, an age when screens glowed with the atomic threat and undulated with scuttling, supersized bugs. Set in the itsy-bitsy burg of Santa Mira, Bodysnatchers’ otherwordly events are seen through the dinner-plate eyes of doctor Miles Benell (Kevin McCarthy), who returns home from a convention to find the town in the grip of “mass hysteria”. It seems that someone, sometime, somehow is replacing the good folk of Santa Mira with replicas. “There is no difference you can actually see,” explains one terrified woman. “There’s something missing… there’s no emotion, none.”
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