In fact, it's such a pop culture landmark that no fewer than four parodies have hit the big screens. These include the corny The Invasion of the Girl Snatchers (1973) — about aliens abducting all the nubile young women on earth — to an adult anime called Invasion of Boobie Snatchers (2005). Heck, even the Looney Tunes got in on the act with a spoof, Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers (1992).
"People have a fantasy to be free of daily cares," explained retired University of Illinois professor, Robert Carringer, in a recent online interview. "But what makes up our personalities but daily cares and daily interactions with others? This is the horror in Body Snatchers: That something might invade your personality and reduce it to nothingness.
" Interestingly, that "something" has changed with the times. For instance, in the 1956 version, directed by Don Siegel, the theme had to do with how people with alleged Communist sympathies were ruthlessly hunted down by then-Senator Joseph McCarthy.
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