From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 2/1/26 13:44, Christian Weisgerber wrote:   
   > On 2026-02-01, Paul S Person  wrote:   
   >   
   >> As to related films, /Slither/ has something similar going on. This   
   >> film plays as if it were a standard B-movie of the past, yet it is   
   >> very well done.   
   >   
   > Another film in the vein of _The Puppet Masters_/_The Body Snatchers_   
   > is _The Faculty_, which explicitly namechecks those novels.  IIRC,   
   > one character complains that Finney ripped off Heinlein.  Alien   
   > parasites take over the teachers at a high school and it is up to   
   > a group of misfit students to figure out what is going on and fight   
   > back.  That movie is also better than it has any right to be.   
   >   
      
   	No way it could be better than the book which I read in serialization.   
   Probably in Galaxy SF while yet in HS.   
      
   	bliss   
      
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