"In small town Santa Mira, Dr. Miles Bennell (Kevin McCarthy) returns from a conference to find several patients who believe that an imposter has replaced a loved one. Their family members still look the same, talk the same, and have the same memories, but they lack, as one concerned citizen says, "that special look in his eye." Initially dismissed as mass hysteria,"
"The affair is a bit slow and hokey by modern standards, but its growing sense of paranoia is timeless. Watching a pod person be shucked is unsettling, as is seeing the townsfolk assemble to spread the contagion and hunt our heroes as one. Only Miles manages to escape to another town, but when proof of his wild tale surfaces, the police barricade the road to Santa Mira and the day is implicitly saved."
In small town Santa Mira, Dr. Miles Bennell returns from a conference to discover patients claiming loved ones have been replaced by imposters. Family members look and act the same but lack an identifiable spark in their eyes. Investigation leads Miles and his partner Becky to a house where a duplicate body and unfinished face are found in a basement. The pair discover oozing seedpods that grow emotionless duplicates in sleepers. Communication and law enforcement are compromised as townspeople assemble to spread the contagion and hunt the resisting few. Miles escapes to another town, and proof of the threat prompts authorities to barricade Santa Mira, implicitly stopping the invasion.
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