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Pod people (also known as body snatchers) is the colloquial term for a species of plant-like aliens featured in the 1954 novel The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney, the 1956 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the 1978 remake of the same name, and the 1993 film Body Snatchers.
Pod People may refer to: Pod People (Invasion of the Body Snatchers), a fictional alien species in a novel by Jack Finney and three film adaptations; Extra Terrestrial Visitors, an unrelated 1983 French-Spanish science fiction film renamed The Pod People for the U.S. market; Pod People (band), an Australian doom metal band
The slang expression "pod people" that arose in late 20th-century U.S. culture refers to the emotionless duplicates seen in the film. [2] Invasion of the Body Snatchers was selected in 1994 for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant ...
Extra Terrestrial Visitors (Spanish: Los nuevos extraterrestres, lit. The New Extraterrestrials) is a 1983 science fiction film directed by Juan Piquer Simón. [3] The film's original draft was meant to be a straightforward horror film about an evil alien on a murderous rampage, [4] but the producers demanded script alterations in order to cash in on the success of Steven Spielberg's E.T. the ...
The film argues that people in 1970s San Francisco were already living in disengaged states, having shallow relationships with other people; instinctively seeking distance from any problems; and being so preoccupied with consumerism that this allows the pod people to take over San Francisco without much of the population noticing what is going ...
Invasion of the Pod People (released in some countries as Invasion: The Beginning) is a 2007 science-fiction film produced by The Asylum.. Like several other films by The Asylum, Invasion of the Pod People is a mockbuster whose release coincided with the premiere of The Invasion, although the plot of Pod People borrowed heavily from the 1956 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers, of which The ...
P.O.D. (an initialism for Payable on Death [9]) is an American Christian nu metal band formed in 1992 and based in San Diego, California.The band's line-up consists of vocalist Paul Joshua "Sonny" Sandoval, bassist Mark "Traa" Daniels, lead guitarist Marcos Curiel, and drummer Noah "Wuv" Bernardo.
The album takes its name from the band's apartment where the album was recorded, which the band nicknamed "The Pod". [9] The album's cover art is a takeoff of the 1975 The Best of Leonard Cohen cover; Ween simply positioned a photo of part-time bassist Mean Ween's head (wearing a "Scotchgard powered bong") over Cohen's cover art, and altered the title text and other graphics. [3]