Invasion of the Body Snatchers Blog #12

In Invasion of the Body Snatchers, most of the town starts to notice their friends and family start to seem like they aren't themselves. The little boy fears being alone with his mother because he knows something is terribly wrong with her so he had to spend the night with his grandma. Also, there was that one lady where her uncle became very different. Even though these people couldn't find anything out of the ordinary with their actions, they could notice the lack of warmth and emotions that they usually had. I think that they saw this missing and became afraid that they would become the same way. They didn't even know the cause of this madness until the same thing was happening to them. This movie reminded me of The Monsters are Due on Maple Street. In both films, the neighbors feared each other because of the presence of the aliens. In both, the aliens made the humans act abnormally and become suspicious of each other. I agree with this film crossing genre boundaries. I think that it could also be considered a suspense and romance movie. In most of the plot we follow the two main characters as they confide in and fall deeper in love with each other. It also is very nerve wracking so it could be considered as a suspense movie.