Invasion of the Body Snatchers

a film by Don Siegel

I think I first came across this cultural reference twentysomething years ago, in a poem by Robert Rankin from Sex and Drugs and Sausage Rolls:

The Invasion of the Body Snatchers The Thing from Planet Z The Big Eyed Beans from Venus The Fiend without an ’ead The wild wild women of Wonga Morris the human mole Loup Garou The man from the Pru The Beast from the Bottomless Hole The Phantom of the Opera The lad from the Black Lagoon Vampires and umpires and pirates and poets The Scotsman who lives on the moon Turned up on my doorstep yesterday To say they had put up my rent I said curse and damnation (they had an alsatian) And that’s why I live in a tent.

Another masterpiece that I’ve never seen until now — again, thanks to Filmoteca de Cantabria. According to Wikipedia, this film “was remade several times, including as Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), Body Snatchers (1993), and The Invasion (2007).” There must be somebody working on yet another remake named simply Of.