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URL:https://www.sciencefictionbookclub.org/events/17383454/
SUMMARY:1950's SciFi Film Double Bill - Invasion of the Body Snatchers & Th
 e Blob
DESCRIPTION:We present a late night double bill of cult 1950's science fict
 ion cinema exploring the era's paranoid obsession with invasion as part of
  this year's Barbican SPILL Festival\, an international programme of exper
 imental theatre\, live art and performance spreading throughout the whole 
 of the Barbican Centre and beyond... maybe even to outer space!\n\nThe Pla
 n\nMeet for a drink in the Barbican at around 8:00pm\nWatch Invasion of th
 e Body Snatchers\nWatch The Blob\nGo home\n\nInvasion of the Body Snatcher
 s\nSaturday 23rd April 9:00pm\nBarbican Booking Link (https://www.barbican
 .org.uk/eticketing/performancelist.asp?shoid=33333)\n\nhttps://www.barbica
 n.org.uk/images/events/medium/11980incasionofthebodysnatchers-event.jpgA s
 mall town Doctor returns to find a rash of patients suffering the paranoid
  delusion that some of the townsfolk have been replaced by imposters. Init
 ially diagnosing “epidemic mass hysteria” he soon begins to think that
  they might be right.\n\nA classic in the genre of films that play out cul
 tural anxieties around the idea of becoming first tainted and then subsume
 d by an unseen force\, in this case communism.\n\nUS 1956 Dir. Don Siegel 
 80 min.\n\nThe Blob\nSaturday 23rd April 11:00pm\nBarbican Booking Link (h
 ttps://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing/performancelist.asp?shoid=33334)\nht
 tps://www.barbican.org.uk/images/events/medium/11979thebloblead-event.jpgA
 nother manifestation of cultural anxiety played out as body panic\, with t
 hat body being both individual and collective here. In this film the threa
 t is an external amorphous mass\, a giant amoeba-like alien that terrorize
 s the small community of Phoenixville\, Pennsylvania.\n\nMade outside the 
 Hollywood system\, The Blob launched the careers of superstud Steve McQuee
 n and composer Burt Bacharach with the tongue-in-cheek theme song “Bewar
 e the Blob”.\n\nUS 1958 Dir. Irvin Yeaworth 86 min.
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