Body Snatchers (1993 film)

Body Snatchers - Attack of the Body Snatchers is an American Science-Fiction-/Horrorfilm from 1993 It is -. According to the Body Snatchers and The Body Snatchers - the third film adaptation of Jack Finney's novel The Body Snatchers. Directed by Abel Ferrara.

The film depicts an alien invasion of a military base in the state of Alabama, United States. The invaders copy the body of people whose corpses leave it to disappear in detail. The duplicates are different from the human originals only by the absence of any emotion.

Action

The biologist Steve Malone is sent to a military base in the U.S. state of Alabama, in order to examine their possible impact on the ecosystem in the area. He is accompanied by his teenage daughter from his first marriage, Marti, his second wife Carol and his young son from his second marriage, Andy. Marti has a distant relationship with her family; Instead, she befriends a helicopter pilot Tim.

On the base there are increasing signs that soldiers stationed there and their families accept unusual behaviors, lose every emotion and create a conformist behavior to accumulate the day. Martis half brother Andy watched as Carol is replaced by an externally identical but callous copy in sleep. First, nobody pays his observation faith. After Marti and her father would have been almost replaced in her sleep by growing in large pods doppelgangers, they escape together with Andy before the duplicated people who are already in the majority.

Marti escapes as the only member of her family with Tim's help, the time could steal a helicopter from the holdings of the base. Tim bombarded with pods loaded for the spread of invading army trucks, to the satisfaction of their hatred openly formulated Marti. Whether the invasion was successfully averted, remains open. Voiceover sounds Carols voice with the evocative words: " Where do you want to run wherever you want to run, where you'll hide you? Nowhere ... because there is no more left of your Art "

Criticism

"Third film adaptation of a famous novel; one to the last detail costed, no-frills horror film that will also warn against the neo-fascism, with its apocalyptic story. "

" [ ... ] By far the best film [ the series ]. "

" [ ... ] A soulless imitation of Don Siegel 1956 original and Philip Kaufman's 1978 remake. "

"The idea of a military base as a symbol of mindless conformism is not really enlightening, and the characters are only roughly outlined and insufficiently developed. "

Background

Body Snatchers moves the action of his predecessor of the Body Snatchers and The Body Snatchers, which were located in a California town or San Francisco, on a military base of the U.S. Army in Alabama. The conformist, tightly organized social form of the aliens invaded a free civil society in the first two films. In Body Snatchers, as Roger Ebert stands out, a correlation between the rigid conformity of the army and the behavior of the " Pod People" ( = " sleeve men" ) is produced, which 'appears as an increase of the same Code of Conduct.

Body Snatchers is the movie, which - compared to the films of 1956 and 1978 - the furthest away from the original. Although Steve Malone, like Miles / Matthew Bennell, exerts a medical and scientific profession in the earlier versions, the main character in this film is his daughter Marti. The character of Becky / Elizabeth ( Bennells partner and companion during his attempted escape from the invaders ) is missing, as Dr. Kaufman / Kibner and Belicecs. Resumed, however, two elements that were dropped in the 1978 version were: A little boy ( Jimmy Grimaldi in the 1956 film version, here Martis half brother Andy ) claimed that his mother was not his "real" mother. In addition, again, the film contains a voice over of the main character, the comments on the happenings. Also, two introduced in the 1978 version ideas were taken up again: The mortal remains of human "originals" are collected by garbage trucks. In addition, the duplicates express an inhuman cry when they discover a "real" man, to betray him.

Body Snatchers was director Abel Ferrara's first foray into the genre of science fiction and horror film. Producer Robert H. Solo already produced the previous film of the Body Snatchers. Because the rental company Warner Brothers started the film with low copy number in just a few cinemas, he played at the first evaluation in the United States only 428,868.00 U.S. dollars.

The film was nominated in 1995 for Best science fiction film for a Saturn Award in 1993 and ran in competition at the International Film Festival of Cannes.

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