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Extra Credit 051 - Productions of the Body Snatchers (Patreon)

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2026-09-24 18:55:31
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We're having a chat about the four major adaptations of Jack Finney's The Body Snatchers:

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

Body Snatchers (1993)

The Invasion (2007)

Some meme-worthy clips from Body Snatchers:

Jennifer Tilly's monologue

The helicopter struggle

Next up: a classic story for Halloween and a Jack Ketchum double-feature - The Box and Gone!

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Jason Thompson

I mean, whether it’s body snatchers or zombies, there’s nothing as threatening as other people, right? “The Puppet Masters” is an interesting but sorta silly book. Heinlein isnt into horror so he doesn’t reslly take that path. Spoiler: since the puppet masters are big and need to be physically stuck to people’s skin to control them, the book ends with the invasion being thwarted by a worldwide trend towards permanent nudity! Heinlein gets to fulfill his interests in hard science fiction and being a perv, all at once! ;)

Wulf Mungus

Funny to hear Chad admit to constantly bringing up Body Snatchers.. Cuz I've been going thru yall's back episodes (again).. And Body Snacthers comes up ALOT. I'm near the end of the original Podcraft episodes, at the time of this dropping, and it's come up in like the last 4 episodes I've listened to. All fun stuff of course...

Rick Lyter

I forgot about The Puppet Masters. I totally read it back in the late 80s/early 90s. I remember liking it but it's been too long to remember a lot. I never saw the later two remakes because I loved the 50s and 70s versions so much. I will definitely check out Body Snatchers (1993)

Evan

Something that I think is underrated about the second one is that the credits are silent. While I think the scream scene is just a SMIDGE too long, having to sit there in silence afterwards did a LOT.

Patrick W

“Overall I didn’t like the snatch removal”…..that’ll haunt you.

Richard Horsman

Meg Tilly is so good in that 90s one. Fun fact: she wrote that monologue you opened the show with! (I can now not find a cite for that, so may just be something I really want to be true)

Jb Lee

As I stated in the comments during the read, 1978 is easily my favorite, and it has a fantastic score by jazz pianist Denny Zeitlin which does a lot toward making the film as frightening as it is. Zeitlin was interviewed by CONTEMPORARY KEYBOARD in 1979 and mentioned that when the film's producer heard the score, he thought Zeitlin was trying to sabotage the movie! But he managed to convince the producer it would work, and boy, does it ever.

Pete Williams

Finney's answer reminded me of Warren Zevon's Werewolves of London. Jackson Browne who co-produced it thought it was about a dapper debonair gigolo figure, Zevon just though it was a fun song about werewolves in London, a play on the various horror movie themed novelty song of the 60s.

Doug Bolden

The scene with the kids holding up the art in the 1990s version is my second favorite scene in sci-fi cinema history where kids collectively hold up the same drawing. The best version of the scene is in Godzilla vs Biollante when all the kids hold up the picture of Godzilla's return. However, in Body Snatchers you get the very strange and very alien drawings which are all very much the same but not quite the same. It's a "nice" glimpse into the pod hive mind and one of the rare ones not given as a sales pitch.

Our old pal Brendan Gardiner

Chad, on no fewer than three occasions in this episode, you said the word “co- AIR-shun” as opposed to “co-UHR-shun,” the way I’ve heard most people from the American Midwest say it. I’m 95% sure this means you’ve been replaced. But as the quality of this episode was more than solid, I expect I’ll be able to make the adjustment to pod Chad. Chris, you were great as always, and sounding very much like yourself.

Bryce Perry

Shocked that you went through this entire episode and didn't mention Pluribus which is absolutely a body snatchers series.

The Chet

Great insights as always, guys, but I think you missed a trick. The scream at the end of the last episode should have been Naked Donald Sutherland!

Jim Cannon

You mentioned Innerspace, but left out UHF? Bummer, man.

Jerome Tracy

Thanks so much for your deep dive into this story. I first saw the original movie when I was a l'il tyke, probably on Chiller Theater, maybe slightly later on Monster Movie Matinee. It wasn't until over sixty years later that someone pointed out that Becky just up and changed without a pod, which would have created the greatest spit-take of my life if I had been drinking something. How could I have missed so obvious a point??? I put it down to the movie being so engrossing that by that point it could have done almost anything and I would have gone along with it. Side note - while in law school (in the dark ages before laptops, internet, or digital projectors) I was in charge of the student-run weekly movie. I had a small budget and a big book of movies that could be rented and run on the school's ancient film projector. Naturally, I rented the movies that I wanted to see, and one of these was the 1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers. I had the option of renting the 'original' version, without the prologue and epilogue, and the movie ends as you described, with Miles in the highway yelling "You're next! You're next!!!" Thanks again, this month was a lot of fun.

Kip Barnes

I recall seeing the Puppet Masters on VHS. I don’t recall it being great, just a typical B movie rental. The stingray alien creatures were fun though.

Blair Leggett

Hey guys! Thanks so much for covering Finney's book and the fine films. You've really made my September! By the way... in the early eighties TSR (yes that D&D TSR) published a bunch of mini-board games that came in a small plastic boxes. One of them was called "They've Invaded Pleasantville". It is LITERALLY "Invasion of the body Snatchers" the board game. It's a two player game where one person plays the "aware" townspeople trying to convince the rest of the town that WE'RE BEING INVADED. The other player is the aliens who is slowly but surely replacing townspeople with alien replicas. It suffers a bit because some of the rules are based on "wargame style" combat odds, but is GREAT for the paranoia it creates. Plus it is hilarious when you send the "town drunk" off to try to convince people of the danger. It's a tough game to find in print, but there is a digital copy that was done for Tabletop Simulator. I would love to referee a game between a paranoid Chris "townsperson" and an evil alien Chad... what do you think?

Darren Hennessey

I was just about to post something, but I'm glad you did. I'm equally surprised it hasn't come up. It asks some interesting questions.

James Anthony

I remember seeing one of them, probably the 1950s one, when I was a little kid. After watching to the end I remember thinking it would have been a more interesting ending if the scene in the mine shaft had resulted in the boards breaking and killing one of them, followed by the other turning themselves in, their reason for fighting no longer being there. Yeah. I was a weird kid.