QHow does a pod take over a human body?
AAccording to what can be seen in the movie, the pod focuses on one person. It begins to take over that person's physical appearance. When the person is asleep, it then finishes the transformation by taking over mind and memories. Unfortunately, it cannot absorb human emotions, so the resulting clone lacks the ability to feel love, beauty, grief, hope, and all those qualities that characterize the human condition.
QWhat is 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' about?
AHeld for being insane, Dr Miles Bennell (Kevin McCarthy) relates to a psychiatrist how the people in the small town of Santa Mira, California (near Los Angeles) are being replaced by emotionless duplicates. People he has known all his life are acting strangely, and family members swear they are somehow different. When two of his friends, Jack (King Donovan) and Teddy (Carolyn Jones) Bellicec, discover a partly-formed corpse that strongly resembles Jack, they realize that people are being replaced with alien plant pods that clone them while they sleep, Miles, Jack, Teddy, and Miles' girlfriend Becky Driscoll (Dana Wynter) attempt to get out of the town. However, the pod people are not about to let them escape, and it's getting harder and harder to stay awake.
QA Note Regarding Spoilers
AThe following FAQ entries may contain spoilers. Only the biggest ones (if any) will be covered with spoiler tags. Spoiler tags have been used sparingly in order to make the page more readable.
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