Body Snatchers

Abel Ferrara's Body Snatchers is the third screen version of Jack Finney's cold war science fiction novel -Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Marty Malone (Gabrielle Anwar) is moving with her father, stepmother, and stepbrother to a military base where her father will investigate possible environmental ...more

Each generation has put their own cinematic spin on Jack Finney's -Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The subtext of Don Siegel's '50s version was the red scare. Phillip Kaufman's late-'70s adaptation satirized "me decade" narcissism and psychiatry. Abel Ferrara's '90s version, simply titled Body Snatchers, is a commentary on the dissolution of the American family. The key to the film is the family dynamics of the Malone house. The opening narration explains that Marty, a teenage girl, does not get ...more