Bart Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror (1997) 3

Immigration of the Body Snatchers! is 1997’s main offering in the “third throat-throttling issue.”

Bart Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror (1997) 3

Evan Dorkin spends the bulk of book burying Invasion of the Body Snatchers, plus taking a slew of similar films with it.

Homer plays the unlikely hero in the 1997 parody of the original 1956-black and white, Superscope indie Invasion of the Body Snatchers. That, in turn, was based upon the 1954 book The Body Snatchers.

This is another film made on the cheap – about $350,000 – with huge returns. Initial receipts tallied over $1 million, finally eclipsing $2.5 million in the United States alone.

Invasion was remade in 1978, earning over $25 million.

Warner Brothers returned to the well with another version in 1993, this time under the name Body Snatchers. It was met with mixed reviews and minimal box office returns.

A fourth adaptation was released in 2007 entitled The Invasion. As with the previous incarnation, the film failed to make back costs; having a $65 to $80 million budget and grossing $40.2 million.

Finishing the book is the short, Fatal Reception. Bart and Lisa turn the tables on Homer. The Simpson patriarch has ransomed room and board for half the Halloween candy take. The siblings relent, but also plot revenge.