As a child, the director Steven Spielberg was never probed by aliens, snatched by a poltergeist, visited by an extraterrestrial or bitten by a shark.
"I was sure that there had been an alien body-snatching going on.
By the mid-20th century post-apocalyptic fiction echoed the concerns of the time: nuclear wars, alien invasions, body snatching and totalitarian regimes.
If you happen to land in actual woodland by an actual river in the Bronx, you could be snatched, alien-abduction style, by intelligent beings.
That turns him into a cowboy with a zap gun, the better to join forces with a ruthless cattle baron (Harrison Ford) and a mysterious traveler (Olivia Wilde) to subdue an army of aliens that is snatching up the townspeople.
The central joke in "Men in Black" was so good because it was flexible and expansive and, in a lovely way, utilitarian: The aliens were not snatching our bodies and turning us into pods, as in the old science-fiction tropes; they were ectoplasmic creatures (created by specialist Rick Baker) from outer space who sought refuge on Earth from obscure intergalactic wars.
10 25 P.M. (MoreMax) COWBOYS & ALIENS (2011) Jake Lonergan (Daniel Craig) wakes up bloodied and dazed in 1873 Arizona with a strange metallic bracelet locked on his wrist that turns him into a cowboy with a zap gun — the better to join forces with a ruthless cattle baron (Harrison Ford) and a mysterious traveler (Olivia Wilde) to subdue an army of aliens that is snatching up the townsfolk.
Animator Lee Hardcastle puts poor Pingu in the 1982 horror film, "The Thing" for a 60-second, claymation retelling of John Carpenter's body-snatching aliens.
We've already got five trailers, six TV spots, four posters, a soft drink tie-in, a planned Nascar tie-in, and a deluge of demo-friendly audiences who will see those trailers before Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Baywatch, Alien: Covenant, King Arthur and Snatched.
Some of our neighbors seem to have been snatched by aliens.
