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Movies that feel like Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

If you loved Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the closest films we have are Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), Phantasm (1979) and Scanners (1981). All three share Invasion of the Body Snatchers' cerebral and dread feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 6 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

The residents of San Francisco are becoming drone-like shadows of their former selves, and as the phenomenon spreads, two Department of Health workers uncover the horrifying truth.

🍅 93% Rotten Tomatoes7.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Philip Kaufmancerebraldreadunsettling
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If Invasion of the Body Snatchers hit the spot, these will too

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
1956 · dir. Don Siegel
🍅 97%7.7science fiction · horror · thriller

Common ground in both: alien and alien invasion

The difference: Played as thriller first

A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.

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Phantasm
1979 · dir. Don Coscarelli
🍅 72%6.6horror · science fiction

Cerebral where it counts, dread-soaked underneath

A teenage boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber, known only as the Tall Man, who employs a lethal arsenal of unearthly weapons.

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Scanners
1981 · dir. David Cronenberg
🍅 69%6.7science fiction · horror

Both lean on unease more than on science fiction

A scientist trains a man with an advanced telepathic ability called 'scanning' to stop a dangerous Scanner with extraordinary psychic powers from waging war against non-Scanners.

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Phase IV
1974 · dir. Saul Bass
🍅 50%6.4horror · science fiction

Horror built on ideas, twice over

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

Arizona ants mock the food chain on their way to a desert lab to get two scientists and a woman.

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Plan 9 from Outer Space
1957 · dir. Edward D. Wood Jr.
🍅 66%3.9science fiction · horror

Both are built on the same subject: alien

The difference: Made in the 1950s, in a different era of the craft

In California, an old man grieves the loss of his wife, and dies the day after she is buried. However, the space soldier Eros and his mate Tanna use an electric device to resurrect them both, alongside the strong Inspector Clay, who was murdered by the alien-controlled dead couple. When the populations of Hollywood and Washington D.C. see flying saucers on the sky, a colonel, a police lieutenant, a commercial pilot, his wife, and a policeman try to stop the aliens.

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The Fly
1986 · dir. David Cronenberg
🍅 83%7.6horror · science fiction

Science fiction with a pulse of dread, in both cases

When brilliant, eccentric scientist Seth Brundle makes a huge technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.

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The Thing from Another World
1951 · dir. Christian Nyby
🍅 87%7drama · horror · science fiction

The same preoccupation in both: alien invasion

The difference: Leans further into drama

Scientists and US Air Force officials fend off a blood-thirsty alien organism while investigating at a remote arctic outpost.

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Nosferatu the Vampyre
1979 · dir. Werner Herzog
🍅 93%7.4drama · horror

Unsettling horror, and it commits to that

The difference: Without the same ideas

A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar.

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Seconds
1966 · dir. John Frankenheimer
🍅 79%7.6science fiction · thriller · horror

Cerebral science fiction in both cases

An unhappy middle-aged banker agrees to a procedure that will fake his death and give him a completely new look and identity; one that comes with its own price.

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Island of Lost Souls
1932 · dir. Erle C. Kenton
🍅 88%7.4science fiction · horror

Horror built on dread, twice over

An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half-human abominations.

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The Fly
1958 · dir. Kurt Neumann
🍅 95%7.1science fiction · horror · drama

Both sit in the same unsettling register

Industrialist François Delambre is called late at night by his sister-in-law, Helene, who tells him that she has just killed her husband. Reluctant at first, she eventually explains to the police that he invented a matter transportation apparatus and, while experimenting on himself, a fly entered the chamber.

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Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky
1991 · dir. Lam Ngai Kai
🍅 89%7action · science fiction · horror

Both are science fiction through and through

In 2001, where all correctional facilities have been privatized, martial artist Ricky finds himself victim to the corrupt system, found "guilty" of the manslaughter of an infamous crime boss.

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