Happy Halloween! We didn't want to break our streak of getting spooky for the holiday, so for episode 103 we're diving into sci-fi horror with the paranoid classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers!
In this episode we discuss:
- The Body Snatchers, Jack Finney's original 1956 novel
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), directed by Don Siegel, written by Daniel Mainwaring, and starring Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, and Larry Gates
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), directed by Philip Kaufman, written by W.D. Richter, and starring Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy, Jeff Goldblum, and Veronica Cartwright
- Body Snatchers (1993), directed by Abel Ferrara, written by Stuart Gordon, Dennis Paoli, and Nicholas St. John, and starring Gabrielle Anwar, Meg Tilly, R. Lee Ermey, and Forest Whitaker
- The Invasion (2007), directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, written by David Kajganich, and starring Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Jeffrey Wright, and Veronica Cartwright
Footnotes:
- Capgras delusion
- "This is Reality" from TV Tropes
- Jeff Goldblum's IMDb profile
- "Why ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ Still Haunts Its Director", The Hollywood Reporter's interview with Philip Kaufman
- Roger Ebert's Review of Body Snatchers (1993)
- Meg Tilly's blog post about her Body Snatchers body double
- "Cool Glitch Effect On Movie Studio Logo Must Mean Shit About To Go Down" from The Onion