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