Body Snatchers (1993 film)

Infobox Film
name = Body Snatchers


caption =
director = Abel Ferrara
producer = Robert H. Solo
eproducer =
aproducer =
writer = Novel:
Jack Finney
Story:
Raymond Cistheri
Larry Cohen
Screenplay:
Stuart Gordon
Dennis Paoli
Nicholas St. John
starring = Gabrielle Anwar
Meg Tilly
music = Joe Delia
cinematography = Bojan Bazelli
editing = Anthony Redman
distributor = Warner Bros.
released = 1993
runtime = 87 min.
country = USA
awards =
language = English
budget =
gross = $428,868 (domestic)
preceded_by =
followed_by =
amg_id =
imdb_id = 0106452

"Body Snatchers" is a 1993 science fiction film directed by Abel Ferrara. It is a sequel to the 1978 remake of INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS. The original was released in 1956. THE INVASION,another remake, was released in 2007.

The story revolves around the discovery that people are being replaced by simulations grown from plant-like pods, perfect physical duplicates who kill and dispose of their human victims. The "pod people", indistinguishable from normal people except for their utter lack of emotion, work together to secretly spread more pods in order to replace the entire human race.

1993 version

Directed by Abel Ferrara (director of "Bad Lieutenant"), with the story adapted by B-movie auteur Larry Cohen (with Raymond Cistheri) and a screenplay by "Re-Animator's" Stuart Gordon and Dennis Paoli (along with Nicholas St. John, a frequent Ferrara collaborator). This version starred Gabrielle Anwar, Billy Wirth, Terry Kinney, Meg Tilly, R. Lee Ermey and Forest Whitaker.

This film set its nightmare vision of conformity on a military base (filmed at Craig Air Force Base near Selma, Alabama), where an agent from the Environmental Protection Agency (Kinney) has brought along his family as he checks for toxic waste. The main character is the EPA agent's daughter, Anwar's Marti Malone, a teenager already alienated from her newly remarried father and stepmother (Tilly) even before pods enter the picture.

Response to the 1993 remake was decidedly mixed. Although it was nominated for a Palme d'Or at Cannes, the film had been dumped by Warner Brothers, releasing it to only a few dozen theaters. Some critics panned the film--Richard Harrington of the Washington Post (February 18, 1994) called it "a soulless replica of Don Siegel's 1956 model and Philip Kaufman's 1978 update". [ [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/thebodysnatchersrharrington_a0abad.htm ‘The Body Snatchers’ (R) ] ]

"Chicago Sun-Times" film critic Roger Ebert (February 25, 1994) gave it four stars out of four, praising it for psychological realism and social criticism:

Cast

*Gabrielle Anwar - Marti Malone
*Terry Kinney - Steve Malone
*Billy Wirth - Tim Young
*Christine Elise - Jenn Platt
*R. Lee Ermey - Gen. Platt
*Reilly Murphy - Andy Malone
*Kathleen Doyle - Mrs. Platt
*Forest Whitaker - Maj. Collins
*Meg Tilly - Carol Malone

References

External links

*imdb title|id=0106452|title=Body Snatchers (1993)
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106452/board/nest/21091050 IMDB: "Things That Happen in All Three Films"] ; a list of eight parallels