Invasion of the Body Snatchers story

movie: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) · 1978-12-22

A San Francisco health inspector and his colleague discover that humans are being replaced by alien duplicates; each is a perfect copy of the person replaced, only devoid of human emotion.

9 total · 2 choice · 3 major · 4 minor

ThemeLevelMotivation
spacefaring plants choice Spacefaring pod plants fell on San Fransisco and began to replace the citizens with emotionless replicas.
subversive life form from outer space choice Alien plant spores fallen from space grew into large seed pods, each one capable of reproducing a duplicate replacement copy of each human.
duplicate of a person major Spacefaring pod plants went about replacing the people of San Fransisco with utterly emotionless replicas.
romantic love major Matthew and Elizabeth fell in love while escaping from the pod plants.
what if people around me started behaving strangely one by one major Elizabeth and Matthew notice the people of San Fransisco turning strange one by one.
boyfriend and girlfriend minor Elizabeth Driscoll and Geoffrey Howell.
conspiracy theory minor Jack Bellicec was paranoid and saw conspiracies all around him.
husband and wife minor Jack and Nancy Bellicec.
mass hysteria minor Matthew was told not to spread word about duplicate bodies because it might start a mass panic.