Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

I Saw It On Linden Street

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:

Freund, Charles. “Pods Over San Francisco.” Film comment 15, no. 1 (1979): 22–25.

Hodgkins, John. “Double Vision: Adaptation, the Uncanny and Invasion of the Body Snatchers.” Adaptation : the journal of literature on screen studies 14, no. 1 (2021): 64–77.

“Re-Visitors From Outer Space or How I learned to stop Worrying and Love the Pod”. Featurette. 2007 MGM Studios Inc.

Hurley, Kelly. “‘Type H’: Medicine, Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis in the Body Snatchers Films.” Horror studies 6, no. 2 (2015): 195–210.

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

Meeker, Natania, and Antónia Szabari. “From the Century of the Pods to the Century of the Plants: Plant Horror, Politics, and Vegetal Ontology.” Discourse (Berkeley, Calif.) 34, no. 1 (2012): 32–58.

Norton, Elizabeth Harmon. “Monsters Like Us: Reexamining ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ through the Decades”. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2016. Article Link. Accessed 3/1/23.

Poll. “Film Reviews: Invasion Of The Body Snatchers.” Variety (Archive: 1905-2000). Los Angeles: Penske Business Corporation, 1978.

Weiner, David. “Why ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ Still Haunts Its Director. The Hollywood Reporter. December 20th, 2018. Article Link. Accessed 3/1/23.

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