The Body Snatchers story has been adapted into four movies, with the 1978 version considered the best.; The Invasion (2007) was a troubled production that failed to capture the essence of the ...

Twice before on the big screen, alien pods took over the minds and bodies of human beings.In 1956, Don Siegel directed the classic sci-fi tale Invasion of the Body Snatchers. It has been read by ...

“Invasion of the Body Snatchers” grossed $3 million in its initial release and grew in critical stature to the point that it was selected in 1994 for preservation in the United States National ...

Like “A Christmas Carol” or “Romeo and Juliet,” “Body Snatchers” almost defies ruination, even by the most enthusiastic of hacks. Jack Finney’s original novella is so exactingly ...

The Sad Lesson Of 'Body Snatchers': People Change Science-fiction writer Jack Finney would have turned 100 this month. Critic Maureen Corrigan says he had a knack for tapping into our shallowly ...

In 1994, the Library of ... After “Body Snatchers,” Ms. Wynter played undemanding and largely decorative roles in dramas such as “D-Day the Sixth of June” (1956) with Robert Taylor; ...

Little, Brown. 328 pp. $24.95. The year 1994 witnessed the birth of a new literary subgenre: the microbiological horror story. The genre was inaugurated and defined by two bestselling nonfiction ...

“Invasion of the Body Snatchers” grossed $3 million in its initial release and grew in critical stature to the point that it was selected in 1994 for preservation in the United States National ...

The conceit at the heart of Jack Finney's sci-fi novel The Body Snatchers was brilliantly counter ... The third came in the little-known 1994 version by Abel Ferrara, which was clumsily set ...