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Body Snatchers
Directed by	Abel Ferrara
Produced by	Robert H. Solo
Written by	Novel: Jack Finney Story: Raymond Cistheri Larry Cohen Screenplay: Stuart Gordon Dennis Paoli Nicholas St. John
Starring	Gabrielle Anwar Meg Tilly
Music by	Joe Delia
Cinematography	Bojan Bazelli
Editing by	Anthony Redman
Release date(s)	1993
Running time	87 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Gross revenue	$428,868 (domestic)
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Body Snatchers is a 1993 science fiction film, a remake of the 1956 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers. It followed a previous remake released in 1978.

The story in all three versions (and in The Body Snatchers, the novel that the first film was based on) 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.

This remake was 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, Terry Kinney, Meg Tilly, R. Lee Ermey and Forest Whitaker.

This film set its nightmare vision of conformity on a military base, 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 Palm 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" [1].

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

There is a crafty connection made between the Army's code of rigid conformity, and the behavior of the Pod People, who seem like a logical extension of the same code.

• Body Snatchers (1993) at the Internet Movie Database
• IMDB: "Things That Happen in All Three Films"; a list of eight parallels

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