Body Snatchers

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Body Snatchers

R

1993

1h 27m

Sci-Fi

Horror

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When Environmental Protection Agency inspector Steve Malone (Terry Kinney) travels to a remote military base in order to check for toxic materials, he brings his family along for the ride. After arriving at the base, his teenage daughter Marti (Gabrielle Anwar) befriends Jenn Platt (Christine Elise), daughter of the base's commander, General Platt (R. Lee Ermey). When people at the base begin acting strangely, Marti becomes convinced that they are slowly being replaced by plant-like aliens.

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Critics Consensus

Body Snatchers may not topple previous adaptions, but it boasts an effective sense of dread and strong characterizations.

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Nick Schager

Lessons of Darkness

May 8, 2006

B-

Offers a few stunning moments of paranoia-laced terror.

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Jan 1, 2000

4/4

As sheer moviemaking, it is skilled and knowing, and deserves the highest praise you can give a horror film: It works.

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Eddie Harrison

film-authority.com

Jan 9, 2026

4/5

'...firmly set in the same universe as the first two films...Abel Ferrara's revamped Body Snatchers didn’t make the cultural impact of the other films, but it manages the same trick of using sci-fi to expose cultural raw nerves...'

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

Apr 21, 2025

2.5/4

The short running time means that we never get to see the characters as full-blooded people -- a detriment in a movie meant to celebrate the individuality of humans.

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Grant Watson

Fiction Machine

Jan 13, 2025

4/10

Nothing really stands out here. Nothing is memorable. It does not just feature emotionless aliens on the screen; it feels like they made the movie too.

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Nick Rogers

Midwest Film Journal

Jan 26, 2024

4/5

Abel Ferrara's 1994 incarnation of the body snatchers story is not the most recent. But it's the most resonant in a contemporary sense — a perfectly paranoid counterpart to its 1956 and 1978 predecessors infused with deeply unsettling reminders of loss.

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Eye C

@ECinc 1 day ago

A nice remake, not wonderful but not awful either. Not a bad entry point, but the original, I think, will always be my favorite.

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Robert P

@Superbad Sep 9, 2026

Nowhere near as good as the movie "Invasion of the Body Snatcher"

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B P

@Bradster69 Aug 10, 2026

Abel Ferrara’s Hidden Gem

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Richard W

@RT65767935 Jun 8, 2026

So the father goes back to rescue his kids in the warehouse ,and they escape in a jeep ,only to find out that the dad is an alien ,they kill him and all the aliens start screaming to get them ,why didnt the dad who was really an alien ,try to save them in the first place ,?makes absolutely no sense whatsoever,,had to turn it off at that point,these holly wood writers can only isult my intelligence so much

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Mo S.

@9mr_0 Dec 17, 2025

جيد جدا قصة خفيفه تمثيل و اخراج جيد

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Jeepers C

@RT12312147 Oct 12, 2025

This movie is way better then the reviews it's getting. This Body Snatchers movie moves at a much faster rate then Invasion of the body snatchers. That one was a slow burn. This one centers around a army base which is actually where all the body snatching is taking place. This is a fast and fun scifi movie. I enjoyed .

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Synopsis

When Environmental Protection Agency inspector Steve Malone (Terry Kinney) travels to a remote military base in order to check for toxic materials, he brings his family along for the ride. After arriving at the base, his teenage daughter Marti (Gabrielle Anwar) befriends Jenn Platt (Christine Elise), daughter of the base's commander, General Platt (R. Lee Ermey). When people at the base begin acting strangely, Marti becomes convinced that they are slowly being replaced by plant-like aliens.

Director: Abel Ferrara
Producer: Robert H. Solo, Michael Jaffe
Screenwriter: Stuart Gordon, Dennis Paoli, Nicholas St. John
Production Co: Warner Bros.
Rating: R
Genre: Sci-Fi, Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 1, 2008
Box Office (Gross USA): $54.8K
Runtime: 1h 27m
Sound Mix: Surround, Stereo

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