Body Snatchers (1993) on Netflix
R19931h 27mHorrorSci-FiThriller
Marti Malone arrives at an Alabama army base with her EPA inspector father, stepmother and half-brother. Residents are being replaced by duplicates, and a soldier warns her not to sleep.
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Plot summary
Environmental Protection Agency inspector Steve Malone brings his family to a military base in Alabama, where he has been assigned to check what military operations are doing to the land around it. With him are his teenage daughter Marti, his second wife Carol, and Marti's half-brother Andy. At a gas station on the way, a military policeman pulls a knife on Marti and tells her they get you when you sleep. On the base, Marti befriends Jenn, the commander's daughter, and meets Tim, a helicopter pilot. Andy is singled out as an outsider among the children at day care and runs away, and Tim brings him home. Medical officer Major Collins asks Steve whether the base's toxic environment could explain residents who fear sleep and believe their loved ones are imposters.
Cast
- G. Elvis Phillipsas Pete
- Stanley Smallas Platt's Aide
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Body Snatchers (1993)
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- Body Snatchers was the first film ever shot with Arriscope anamorphic lenses; it was filmed in the winter of 1991 at an abandoned military base in Selma, Alabama.
- Body Snatchers marked director Abel Ferrara's first venture into the science fiction genre and his first feature to receive financial backing from a major film studio.
- The initial script was written by Stuart Gordon with Dennis Paoli, and Gordon was originally slated to direct Body Snatchers but left the project to direct Fortress instead.
- Abel Ferrara brought in his frequent collaborator Nicholas St. John to rewrite the Stuart Gordon and Dennis Paoli script toward Ferrara's style, because the original leaned toward an over-the-top splatter film.
- Abel Ferrara said the film went wrong during editing and that he butted heads with Dede Allen, the Warner Bros. editor in charge of all the studio's films, because he disliked being told what to do.
