… of the Body Snatchers remakes are well worth catching too, but this original remains my favourite. It can be read as either pro or anti-McCarthy, in that the alien doppelgangers could be a metaphor for communist threat, or the behaviour of previously beloved friends and neighbours ostracising upon discovery of communist sympathy. Or you can sit on the edge of your seat, ignoring the subtext. Either way, it’s a stone-cold classi…