Body Snatchers

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Body Snatchers

R,

1993,

1h 27m,

Sci-Fi/

Horror

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When Environmental Protection Agency inspector Steve Malone (Terry Kinney) travels to a remote military base in order to check for toxic materials, he brings his family along for the ride. After arriving at the base, his teenage daughter Marti (Gabrielle Anwar) befriends Jenn Platt (Christine Elise), daughter of the base's commander, General Platt (R. Lee Ermey). When people at the base begin acting strangely, Marti becomes convinced that they are slowly being replaced by plant-like aliens.

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Critics Consensus

Body Snatchers may not topple previous adaptions, but it boasts an effective sense of dread and strong characterizations.

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Nick Schager

Lessons of Darkness

May 8, 2006

B-

Offers a few stunning moments of paranoia-laced terror.

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Jan 1, 2000

4/4

As sheer moviemaking, it is skilled and knowing, and deserves the highest praise you can give a horror film: It works.

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Eddie Harrison

film-authority.com

Jan 9, 2026

4/5

'...firmly set in the same universe as the first two films...Abel Ferrara's revamped Body Snatchers didn’t make the cultural impact of the other films, but it manages the same trick of using sci-fi to expose cultural raw nerves...'

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

Apr 21, 2025

2.5/4

The short running time means that we never get to see the characters as full-blooded people -- a detriment in a movie meant to celebrate the individuality of humans.

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Grant Watson

Fiction Machine

Jan 13, 2025

4/10

Nothing really stands out here. Nothing is memorable. It does not just feature emotionless aliens on the screen; it feels like they made the movie too.

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Nick Rogers

Midwest Film Journal

Jan 26, 2024

4/5

Abel Ferrara's 1994 incarnation of the body snatchers story is not the most recent. But it's the most resonant in a contemporary sense — a perfectly paranoid counterpart to its 1956 and 1978 predecessors infused with deeply unsettling reminders of loss.

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Han M

Jul 5, 2018

By far the best adaptation of Finney's novel and the superior film version of the tale. Criminally underrated and unappreciated, any reading of social commentary regarding the setting misses the point that the more isolated a community, the easier it is to subvert. Plain and simple: This is a brilliant horror film, and perhaps Meg Tilly's best performance as the seductive, chillingly reasonable duplicate of a once-loving mother. The rest of the cast is just as skilled and engaging, and the ending will leave your skin crawl9ng for years as you recall the closing lines. Not to be missed.

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Han L

Oct 23, 2017

Once more into the breech, and this time it's not so bad at all as the alien fungus returns to take over the planet by assuming our identities once again. Who's a real human? Who's an alien replacement? Really good is how the work portrays a little kid alone in the knowledge that everyone he knows is not anybody he knows. Plus some light but effective special effects that manage the gross out portion. How did I miss this first time around? It's better than you thought it would be.

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Theodore R

Oct 21, 2017

Unnecessary and disappointing remake. Starts off boring, cliched, and full of ambiguous unnecessary narration. Far from subtle. Very meandering. The effects weren't good; cheap and not effective. The story changes weren't bad, just more contained and simple...but not well established.

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Han R

Oct 19, 2017

Such a classic. Love it

Hermione S

Jul 22, 2017

23/7/2017 - Completely out classed by its two predecessors. There was no point in making this piece of shit.

Kylo R

Feb 13, 2017

it could of been better but it was ok

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Synopsis

When Environmental Protection Agency inspector Steve Malone (Terry Kinney) travels to a remote military base in order to check for toxic materials, he brings his family along for the ride. After arriving at the base, his teenage daughter Marti (Gabrielle Anwar) befriends Jenn Platt (Christine Elise), daughter of the base's commander, General Platt (R. Lee Ermey). When people at the base begin acting strangely, Marti becomes convinced that they are slowly being replaced by plant-like aliens.

Director: Abel Ferrara
Producer: Robert H. Solo, Michael Jaffe
Screenwriter: Stuart Gordon, Dennis Paoli, Nicholas St. John
Production Co: Warner Bros.
Rating: R
Genre: Sci-Fi, Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 1, 2008
Box Office (Gross USA): $54.8K
Runtime: 1h 27m
Sound Mix: Surround, Stereo

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