Snatchers

In a quiet rural California farming town surrounded by cornfields and the Sierra Nevada mountains, the story opens on graduation day at Bean Valley High. Three recent graduates, including the restless Louis sneak away from the ceremony, eager to leave small-town life behind.

That same quiet night, a confused young woman named Lorne is found walking alone on the empty State Route 42 with running makeup and no memory of how she got there. Sheriff Molly picks her up and brings her to the tiny local police station, where Deputy Lorraine dismisses Lorne’s fragmented story of being abducted—“that sort of thing doesn’t happen around here.”

The next morning, bodies are discovered in a field near the abandoned Santa Mira area. When Sheriff Molly and Sheriff Sy check with the county medical examiner, Dr. Karl Malone, they’re shown three identical corpses on slabs—all perfect duplicates of the missing girl Lorne, who is still alive and sitting in their holding room.