The Puppet Masters (1994)
A very enjoyable take on Robert A. Heinlein's 1951 novel of the same title, in which Donald Sutherland's Chief of Scientific Intelligence and his team attempt to prevent an alien race of parasites from taking over the Earth.
The aliens are squishy creatures - Think Island of Terror (1966) style creatures but nearer to the size of a large hand - which attach themselves to human spines and take over their minds by boring tentacles into their hosts brain.
Set mainly in a small town in Iowa where the invasion begins, the film races along from first to last with very good action sequences and a heightened sense of paranoia throughout.
A lot of fun, The Puppet Masters is a film that quietly grips you and doesn't let go. Anyone who likes Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) or eighties classic The Hidden, should get a lot out of The Puppet Masters.
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