Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Upon its release in 1956, Don Siegel''s Invasion of the Body Snatchers was widely perceived as another ''B'' movie thriller in the cycle of science fiction and horror films that proliferated in the 1950s. Yet the film addresses numerous issues brewing in post-war US society, including the Cold War, McCarthyism and the changing dynamics of gender relations. In the fifty years since the film''s rele...