Invasion of the Body Snatchers

In Invasion of the Body Snatchers I noticed that one of the cold war anxieties presented was fear against communism and conformity. The main Doctor was really scared to conform to the society he was being pressed to join. Also with the pods they were able to control everything and that has some principals of communism.

The movie is related to the Red Scare and McCarthyism because it is showing that communism is a really scary thing. The doctor was scared of communism and so was McCarthy. I do believe that McCarthy was a bit paranoid though because you cannot go around falsly accusing people about being communist. The movie also relates to Spy Cases because in the movie they thought the doctor was the bad guy because he wasn't acting like everyone else. 

McCarthyism:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism