‘Invasion of the Bodysnatchers’: From Communist Hysteria in 1957 To A Zombie Hybrid in 2019.

Marc Barham
8 min readDec 10, 2019

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

The cinematic history of the adaptations of Jack Finney’s novel ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ gives us a real insight into the anxieties pervading the society at the…

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Marc Barham

Column @ timetravelnexus.com on iconic books, TV shows/films: Time Travel Peregrinations. Reviewed all episodes of ‘Dark’ @ site. https://linktr.ee/marcbarham64