marick@ccvaxa.UUCP (06/15/83)
#R:hpdb:-13900:ccvaxa:10100006:000:397 ccvaxa!marick Jun 13 18:30:00 1983 It is said that the director (producer?) of the original Body Snatchers claimed that that "message" of the movie (to the extent that it had one) was that we must all wake up to the insidious Red menace. (The enemy is everywhere... even your neighbor may be one of them.) He was definitely not making a movie about the evils of conformity and McCarthyism. Source: "Danse Macabre", Stephen King.