Body Snatchers (1993)

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

Director:

Abel Ferrara

Writers:

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

Stars:

Terry Kinney, Meg Tilly, Gabrielle Anwar

2 nominations.

Cast

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

Storyline

Family moves to military base for the summer, but the soldiers are behaving even more strangely than usual. Is it a toxic spill as suggested or is it something more sinister?

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Plot Keywords:

military base | military | toxic | alien | sleep | 

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Taglines:

They'd kill...to be you.

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Genres:

Sci-Fi | Horror | Thriller | Mystery

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for violence, nudity and language

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

28 January 1994 (USA)

Also Known As:

Body Snatchers - Angriff der Körperfresser

Filming Locations:

Craig Air Force Base, Selma, Alabama, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$13,000,000 (estimated)

Gross:

$428,868 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Dorset Productions, Robert H. Solo Productions, Warner Bros

Technical Specs

Runtime:

87 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The novel Marti's reading in the car at the beginning is "The Cement Garden" by Ian McEwan.

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Goofs

In the opening sequences, Marti is sitting on the right side of the car looking out the window. When it cuts to show her viewpoint of the moon and passing trees, the perspective is as if she were on the left side of the car.

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Quotes

Carol Malone: Where you gonna go, where you gonna run, where you gonna hide? Nowhere... 'cause there's no one like you left.

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Connections

Version of The Invasion (2007)

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Soundtracks

"PLEASE HELP ME I'M FALLING (IN LOVE WITH YOU)"
Written by Don Robertson and Hal Blair
Performed by The Blue Ridge Rangers
Courtesy of Fantasy, Inc.

User Reviews

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.