Sentence examples for a body snatcher from inspiring English sources

"The walking Strandbeest is a body snatcher," he told me, while disassembling one for transport.

After all, in writing about my parents, wasn't I something of a body snatcher?

It was like I had been taken over by a body snatcher.

At certain points, he refers to Beck-Nielsen as a "body snatcher" and "vampire," and at others he longs for contact with his old comrade.

Naturally, only his 6-year-old daughter (Makenzie Vega) noticed he was out of place, asking if he was an alien body snatcher (the premise owed as much to Jack Finney as to Charles Dickens and Frank Capra).

And it functions capably as a monster movie: a classic "Body Snatchers" scenario, in which the converted become the agents of further conversions, it's creepy and suspenseful in the usual, popular ways.

In one of the most infamous confrontations, half a dozen body snatchers were hospitalized after a fight over a motorcyclist's body.

As one body snatcher testified, "a man may make a good living at it, if he is a sober man, and acts with judgement, and supplies the schools".

The Lewton unit's moody, atmospheric work represented by films such as Cat People (1942), I Walked with a Zombie (1943), and The Body Snatcher (1945)—is now highly regarded.

From a latter-day perspective, the most famous of the major studios' Golden Age B units is Val Lewton's horror unit at RKO. Lewton produced such moody, mysterious films as Cat People (1942), I Walked with a Zombie (1943), and The Body Snatcher (1945), directed by Jacques Tourneur, Robert Wise, and others who would become renowned only later in their careers or entirely in retrospect.

The Body Snatcher was an admirable recreation of the Robert Louis Stevenson story, with Boris Karloff supplying corpses to doctor Henry Daniell (one of the suave, thin-lipped actor's best roles).