Body Snatchers (1993)
- Directed by
- Abel Ferrara
- Genre
- drama film, action film, horror film, science fiction film, mystery film, thriller film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 6.2 of 10 from 480 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A teenage girl moves to a military base with her family and notices people acting strangely. She discovers that emotionless plantlike duplicates are replacing everyone.
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What happens
Body Snatchers is a 1993 American science-fiction horror film directed by Abel Ferrara and starring Gabrielle Anwar, Billy Wirth, Terry Kinney, Meg Tilly, Christine Elise, R. Lee Ermey, and Forest Whitaker. It is loosely based on the 1955 novel The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney, with a screenplay by Nicholas St. John, Stuart Gordon, and Dennis Paoli. Body Snatchers is the third film adaptation of Finney's novel, the first being Invasion of the Body Snatchers in 1956, followed by a second adaptation of the same name in 1978. The plot is centered around the discovery that people working at a military base in Alabama are being replaced by duplicates grown from plantlike pods, indistinguishable from normal people except for their utter lack of emotion. The film marked director Ferrara's first venture into the science fiction genre as well as his first feature to receive a financial backing from a major film studio. Producer Robert H. Solo had already produced its 1978 predecessor Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Body Snatchers was first screened in-competition at the Cannes Film Festival on May 15, 1993, and given a limited U.S. theatrical release on January 14, 1994. It received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised the likeliness, realism, and special effects, though it was criticized for its plot. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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