Body Snatchers (1993)

User Rating:

5.7/10   

Director:

Abel Ferrara

Writers (WGA):

Jack Finney (novel)
Raymond Cistheri (screen story) ...

Release Date:

28 January 1994 (USA)

Genre:

Sci-Fi | Horror | Thriller | Mystery

Tagline:

The Invasion Continues

Plot:

A teenage girl and her father discover alien clones are replacing humans on a remote U.S. military base in Alabama.

Plot Keywords:

Father | Military Base | Military | Alien | Stepmother

Awards:

2 nominations

Cast

Gabrielle Anwar	...	Marti Malone
Terry Kinney	...	Steve Malone
Billy Wirth	...	Tim Young
Christine Elise	...	Jenn Platt
R. Lee Ermey	...	General Platt
G. Elvis Phillips	...	Pete
Reilly Murphy	...	Andy Malone
Kathleen Doyle	...	Mrs. Platt
Forest Whitaker	...	Major Collins
Meg Tilly	...	Carol Malone
Stanley Small	...	Platt's Aide
Tonea Stewart	...	Teacher
Keith Smith	...	Soldier Gas Station
Winston E. Grant	...	Gas Attendant
Phil Neilson	...	MP Gate Captain

Runtime:

87 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Certification:

Argentina:16 | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | Germany:16 | Norway:15 | Singapore:NC-16 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | USA:R (certificate #32088) | Iceland:16

Filming Locations:

Craig Air Force Base, Selma, Alabama, USA

Company:

Warner Bros. Pictures

Trivia:

This was the first film shot with Arriscope anamorphic lenses, which were created for Arri by the German manufacturer Isco-Optic.

Quotes:

Marti Malone: They get you when you sleep.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Sex Files: Alien Erotica (1998)

Soundtrack:

PLEASE HELP ME I'M FALLING (IN LOVE WITH YOU)

There's No-one... Like You... Left...

Ferrara's riff on the Bodysnatchers story takes us onto a military base this time, as an environmental scientist and his family arrive to take up a month long placement. Are those soldiers unemotional because they're soldiers or because of something more sinister? Ferrara's film doesn't really work in the end, but it does contain some highly effective set pieces - the eery collection of refuse sacks each morning, the nursery class creating identical paintings, the first attempt to 'snatch' Marti as she dozes in the bath. Best of all though has to be Meg Tilly. By allowing Carol to be cool towards her step-daughter from the beginning, Ferrara hints at what is to come, and her final attempt to persuade her terrified 'husband' to give in to the inevitable is a brilliantly chilling study in quiet menace. Always more interesting than her 'in-yer-face' sister Jennifer, it makes you wonder why Meg retired from the screen two years later.