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

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)

Trailer

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