Director Abel Ferrara (BAD LIEUTENANT) brings his usual blend of brilliance, sex, and brutality to this paranoid sci-fi tale. Gabrielle Anwar stars as Marti, a teenager who moves to a remote southern military base with her EPA inspector father (Terry Kinney), stepmom (Meg Tilly), and little brother, Andy (Reilly Murphy). To say poor Marti finds life on the base strange is a pretty drastic understatement; before she can even unpack her bags, alien pods start replacing her friends and family with dehumanized replicas. A pod even tries to get her when she's taking a bath. Through it all, Ferrara's surreal, off-kilter direction creates a creepy mood out of ordinary blank landscapes and expressions, and the film never lags, creating an ever-mounting storm of menace. The special effects feature some creepily beautiful imagery of human shapes being generated inside the pods. Forest Whitaker, R. Lee Ermey, Billy Wirth, and Christine Elise costar. With a pounding score and entrancing photography by Bojan Bazelli, this fast-moving adaptation should please fans of the genre, regardless of their faithfulness to the 1956 original.

BODY SNATCHERS is an updated version of INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS that takes place on a United States army base, where emotionless aliens take over the minds and bodies of military officers and civilians alike.

Filmed on location in Alabama.

With a budget of $20 million, this was Ferrara's biggest project to date, and he subsequently went back to making smaller films.

Jennifer Tilly (BOUND) worked uncredited as a body double for her sister, Meg, in this film.

Excerpt: "Go where? That's right, go where? What happened in your room...Are you listening? What happened in your room is not an isolated incident. It is something that is happening everywhere to everyone. So where you gonna go? Where you gonna run? Where you gonna hide? Nowhere, because there's no one like you left."--pod version of Carol (Meg Tilly) to Steve (Terry Kinney)

DVD Features:

Region 1
Widescreen Anamorphic - 1.85
Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
Dolby Digital Surround - English
Dolby Digital Surround - French
Additional Release Material:
Scene Access
Interactive Menus

Gabrielle Anwar: Actress/"Fallen Angels"
Meg Tilly: American Actress
Forest Whitaker: American Actor/Director
Billy Wirth: Actor/"War Party"
Terry Kinney: Actor/"Last Mohicans"

Abel Ferrara: Director

"...Creeping bad dream naturalism....What's original here are the queasy special effects..." -- Rating: B
"...A tremendously exciting thriller that compares favorably with Don Siegel's classic 1956 original....Ferrara keeps everything under tight control and wisely injects black humor to relieve the tension..."
"...This one is something special....BODY SNATCHERS nicely plays on two compelling stripes of paranoia....It also puts Meg Tilly's otherworldly beauty to good use..."
"[S]urprisingly good....The SFX are gross but impressive."