# What movie is this?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 10, 2007, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this/425860 "2007-11-10T01:38:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this/425860/1 "2007-11-10T01:38:16Z")

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A coworker of mine was describing a movie he saw years ago, but he couldn’t remember which one it was.

Okay, there was this boy sitting in a classroom, and apparently, the town has been invaded by aliens who have taken over everyone’s bodies. You could identify them by a bandaid on the back of their necks.

So he’s sitting there, and then their teacher, who also had a bandaid, just swallowed a frog whole.

The next scene my friend remembers is that the kid is searching the alien ship underground.

Any help?

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**Author:** ![JimmyFlair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce7236/32.png) [@JimmyFlair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimmyFlair)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this/425860/2 "2007-11-10T01:51:28Z")

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My fella seems to think that this is “ **Invaders from Mars** ”.

It sounds really familiar to me, but he’s the more of the “Martian movies” fan in our house, so I’ll go with his answer

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**Author:** ![RumMunkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@RumMunkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RumMunkey)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this/425860/3 "2007-11-10T01:57:00Z")

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Oh, these don’t usually trigger for me, but this one did.

I want to say “V”, but I can’t be sure. The band-aid & frog are tripping a memory of some sort.

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this/425860/4 "2007-11-10T02:10:09Z")

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The back of the neck thing is classic “Invaders From Mars” imagery. There have been at least two versions, [the original](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045917/) was made in the 50s, and [a more recent one](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091276/) in the 80s. The recent one is the most likely culprit.

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**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2007, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-is-this/425860/5 "2007-11-10T05:52:52Z")

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Definitely Invaders From Mars.

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