Movies like Body Snatchers (1993)
The best movies like Body Snatchers (1993) are Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), The Puppet Masters (1994) and The Invasion (2007). If Body Snatchers hooked you with its horror and science fiction, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Thing (1982)8.1/10 from 8,443 votes
- NewestExtraterrestrial (2014)Released 2014
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
The residents of San Francisco are becoming drone-like shadows of their former selves, and as the phenomenon spreads, two Department of Health workers uncover the horrifying truth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Puppet Masters (1994)
The Midwest USA is invaded by stingray-shaped alien slugs that ride on people's backs and control their minds in order to spread their dominion. Government agency reps Sam Givens, Andrew Nivens, and Mary Sefton must stop the aliens.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Invasion (2007)
Washington, D.C. psychologist Carol Bennell and her colleague Dr. Ben Driscoll are the only two people on Earth who are aware of an epidemic running rampant through the city. They discover an alien virus aboard a crashed space shuttle that transforms anyone who comes into contact with it into unfeeling drones while they sleep. Carol realizes her son holds the key to stopping the spread of the plague and she races to find him before it is too late.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Deadly Spawn (1983)
When a meteorite touches down in the New Jersey woods carrying a monstrous alien slug, it’s up to four teens to stop it before its terrifying brood consumes all life on Earth!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisTerminal Invasion (2002)
Aliens in human disguise commandeer a rural airport during a snowstorm. To survive, the people trapped inside must determine which of their own is not of this Earth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Faculty (1998)
When creepy things start happening at Herrington High, the students begin to suspect that their faculty is being controlled by body-snatching aliens.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisInvasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisInvaders from Mars (1986)
A boy tries to stop aliens that have taken over his town and are brainwashing its inhabitants.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisContamination (1980)
A former astronaut helps a government agent and a police detective track the source of mysterious alien pod spores, filled with lethal flesh-dissolving acid, to a South American coffee plantation controlled by alien pod clones.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisVillage of the Damned (1995)
An American village is visited by some unknown life form which leaves the women of the village pregnant. Nine months later, the babies are born, and they all look normal, but it doesn't take the "parents" long to realize that the kids are not human or humane.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThey Live (1988)
A lone drifter stumbles upon a unique pair of sunglasses that reveal aliens are systematically gaining control of the Earth by masquerading as humans and lulling the public into submission.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Brain (1988)
Dr. Blake runs a TV show called "Independent Thinkers", which is sort of a Scientology-like self-help/religion program. But he's not making his audience think any more independently – with the help of an alien organism he calls The Brain, he's using brainwashing and mind control. The only thing that stands between them and world domination is a brilliant but troubled high school student with a penchant for pranks...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Blob (1988)
In Arborville, California, three high school students try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWithout Warning (1980)
When a mountain town is besieged by aliens, stranded teens Sandy and Greg team up with a local hunter as a paranoid war vet becomes convinced they're the enemy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisSpecies (1995)
In 1993, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence Project receives a transmission detailing an alien DNA structure, along with instructions on how to splice it with human DNA. The result is Sil, a sensual but deadly creature who can change from a beautiful woman to an armour-plated killing machine in the blink of an eye.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLifeforce (1985)
A race of space vampires arrives in London and infects the populace, commencing an apocalyptic descent into chaos.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisExtraterrestrial (2014)
Five friends set out to a cabin in the woods for a fun weekend getaway that is, until extraterrestrial visitors turn it into a fight for their lives. The group is pulled from their reverie when a flickering object crashes deep in the woods. As they investigate, the friends stumble across an alien spacecraft, and its inhabitants have not arrived in peace.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisShivers (1975)
The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are infected by parasites that turn them into mindless nymphomaniac fiends.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Thing (1982)
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisXtro (1982)
Tony's father Sam, abducted by aliens three years earlier, returns to earth and seeks out his wife and son, but Rachel has since been living with Joe and the reunion is awkward. Joe doesn't trust Sam, and Rachel can't quite decide what her feelings are for her two men. Sam is not the same as when he left, and he begins affecting Tony in frightening ways.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both science fiction & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisAltered (2006)
Fifteen years ago, five men were abducted by aliens. Only four returned. Now, these same four men have managed to capture one of the creatures who killed their friend and ruined their lives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisCritters (1986)
Carnivorous aliens arrive unannounced at a Kansas family farm; two intergalactic bounty hunters soon follow, determined to blow them off the planet.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBlue Monkey (1987)
A man pricks his finger while tending to an exotic plant and is rushed to the ER, where he is diagnosed with a bacterial infection before a worm-like parasite emerges from his mouth. As the infection spreads throughout the ER, the parasite is exposed to a genetic growth stimulant, which causes it grow to monstrous proportions and terrorize the hospital.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Fly (1986)
When brilliant, eccentric scientist Seth Brundle makes a huge technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPhase IV (1974)
Arizona ants mock the food chain on their way to a desert lab to get two scientists and a woman.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCommunion (1989)
A novelist's wife and son see him changed by an apparent encounter with aliens in the mountains.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisDreamcatcher (2003)
Four childhood friends reunite for a hunting trip in the Maine woods, bound by a psychic force born from a childhood friend's dreamcatcher. They find themselves caught in a grotesque alien invasion that twists memory, sanity and reality into something far more sinister.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisPulse (1988)
An intelligent pulse of electricity moves from house to house, terrorizing occupants through their own appliances. Having already destroyed one household in a quiet neighborhood, the pulse finds itself in the home of a boy and his divorced father.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisTicks (1993)
Teens camping in a northern California retreat are terrorized by mutant insects created by evil, polluting pot farmers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
SnoozefestMovies like thisParasite (1982)
Paul Dean has created a deadly parasite that is now attached to his stomach. He and his female companion, Patricia Welles, must find a way to destroy it while also trying to avoid Ricus & his rednecks, and an evil government agent named Merchant.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & science fiction
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Body Snatchers?
The closest matches to Body Snatchers are Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), The Puppet Masters (1994) and The Invasion (2007). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Body Snatchers?
People who watched Body Snatchers most often go on to Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), The Puppet Masters (1994) and The Invasion (2007).
What is the highest-rated movie like Body Snatchers?
The Thing (1982), rated 8.1/10 by 8,443 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Body Snatchers?
Extraterrestrial (2014) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Body Snatchers?
Yes: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), The Puppet Masters (1994) and The Invasion (2007).
How are movies similar to Body Snatchers chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Body Snatchers, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.