"They're Here Already! You're Next!"

"Siegel himself—as well as many associated with the original 'Body Snatchers,' including Kevin McCarthy and producer Walter Wanger—said they never thought of it as a political parable. Perhaps for that reason, their version remains the most Rorschach-like, the most richly suggestive of all science-fiction allegories."

Dennis Lim in the Los Angeles Times revisits Invasion of the Body Snatchers.