science fiction

The Body Snatchers is a 1955 science fiction novel by Jack Finney, which describes a town in Marin County, California, being invaded by seeds that have drifted to Earth from space.

science fiction horror

Body Snatchers (1993 film) Body Snatchers is a 1993 American science fiction horror film directed by Abel Ferrara and starring Gabrielle Anwar, Billy Wirth, Terry Kinney, Meg Tilly, Christine Elise, R. Lee Ermey and Forest Whitaker.

horror

Proving that old horror movies really can be scary, The Body Snatcher boasts a chilling (and true) story by Robert Louis Stevenson about doctors who need cadavers (in order to further medical science) and the creepy criminals who supply them with dead bodies.

a fanta horror

Body Snatchers is a fanta horror, a fanta horror has supernatural/fantasy premises.

the origin of the phrase ‘’, and a staple of pulp science fiction pod people

Adapted for screen multiple times, The Body Snatchers is the origin of the phrase ‘pod people’, and a staple of pulp science fiction.

one of the only science fiction (and horror) films

Body Snatchers is decidedly one of the only science fiction (and horror) films to offer a compelling argument for the villain, that villain being spores who learned to copy human beings.

psychological horror

The Body Snatcher is an excellent example of psychological horror done correctly.

the origin of the phrase 'pod people', and a staple of pulp science fiction

Adapted for screen multiple times, The Body Snatchers is the origin of the phrase 'pod people', and a staple of pulp science fiction.

a horror/sci-fi movie that was directed by La Monte R. Fritts and Michael A. Cornejo and

the Body Snatcher’s a horror/sci-fi movie that was directed by La Monte R. Fritts and Michael A. Cornejo and

as a classic with good reason

BODY SNATCHERS is widely regarded as a classic, one of the great science fiction films of all time, and with good reason: it’s a powerful black-and-white portrait of individuals losing their humanity as they are taken over and replaced by pod people (apparently from outer space, although the film offers little evidence).

a somewhat dated, but remarkably eerie, unmissable dystopic horror film starring a terrifying curly-haired Donald Sutherland, in which one by one people’s lively spirited selves are snatched away in sleep and replaced by zombie-like automatons

the Body Snatchers’s a somewhat dated, but remarkably eerie, unmissable dystopic horror film starring a terrifying curly-haired Donald Sutherland, in which one by one people’s lively spirited selves are snatched away in sleep and replaced by zombie-like automatons.

a psychosexual horror piece that gets as close to being a Stanley Kubrick film without being a Kubrick film

the Body Snatchers’s a psychosexual horror piece that gets as close to being a Stanley Kubrick film without being a Kubrick film.

a moody genre piece with a strong sense of menace, crafted in fiercely unconventional fashion

Body Snatchers is a moody genre piece with a strong sense of menace, crafted in fiercely unconventional fashion.

the kind of familial horror

the Body Snatchers ’s the kind of familial horror and that’s a real rarity, in that by the time things get weird

the sort of cerebral horror so often lacking today, with the plot and characters acting as philosophical counterpoints

the Body Snatchers’s the sort of cerebral horror so often lacking today, with the plot and characters acting as philosophical counterpoints.

top-notch performances here by Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff

The Body Snatcher is one of those old horror films that still holds up today, featuring top-notch performances by Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff here.

the 1955 novel by Jack Finney following Don Siegel's successful 1956 movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers

a science fiction thriller is the fourth film adaptation of the 1955 novel The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney following Don Siegel's successful 1956 movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

a gothic tale that follows two med students involved in crimes of grave robbing

Inspired by the Burke and Hare murders of 1828, ‘The Body Snatcher’ is a gothic tale that follows two med students involved in crimes of grave robbing.

a quietly creepy tale of serial murders that incorporates both the real-life story of the early 1800s Burke and Hare murders and the Robert Lewis Stevenson short story based on those events

The Body Snatcher is, on its surface, a quietly creepy tale of serial murders that incorporates both the real-life story of the early 1800s Burke and Hare murders and the Robert Lewis Stevenson short story based on those events.

the kind of shivery cautionary tale relayed in front of fireplaces on cold winter nights

Chilling, complex, and artfully told, The Body Snatcher is the kind of shivery cautionary tale relayed in front of fireplaces on cold winter nights.