An "Implicit Fear" is a fear of something that cannot be seen/felt etc. An example of this would be a fear of something following you when you can't see it, like the feeling someone is watching you.
An "Explicit Fear" is a fear of something that can be seen/felt etc. Such as a fear of spiders or clowns. Something that is real and can be proven.
In the original Invasion film there are both Implicit and Explicit fears in play.
The implicit fears are as follows:
the "body-snatchers" are, at first, not seen, only experienced, the main characters spent a large section of the film seeing people before and after the snatching, never during. (could not find clip)
"Becoming one of them" was a major implicit fear, they had no idea how it would feel, what would happen to the individual they knew one another as and how they would 'live' as a snatched body. They had no information or data to describe what would happen and lived in fear of the result. (could not find clip)
The explicit fears are as follows:
The fear of "The Pods", the pods were what held the copied bodies of the people who were about to be snatched, the post-snatched people would almost suffocate the protagonists with "the pods" and poorly reassure them that "it will all be fine" A fear of the strange pods was quickly formed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OouTay_7_hw (embedding disabled)
The fear of the post-snatched bodies, any encounter with a post-snatched person would result in a fearful reaction from the people who had not been snatched.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuL2QwsNeM8 (embedding disabled)
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