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Box office. Domestic. $428,868 [1] Body Snatchers is a 1993 American science fiction horror film directed by Abel Ferrara and starring Gabrielle Anwar, Billy Wirth, Terry Kinney, Meg Tilly, Christine Elise, R. Lee Ermey, and Forest Whitaker. It is loosely based on the 1955 novel The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney, with a screenplay by Nicholas ...
The Body Snatchers is a science fiction horror novel by American ... a film based on a Ray Bradbury original ... a real psychiatric disorder which causes people to ...
- Jack Finney
- 1955
Jul 14, 2020 · Jack Finney’s The Body Snatchers has been adapted into a film version on four separate ... but Apocalypse Now explores and meditates upon the true nature of horror in ways that few films of any ...
Jul 2, 2024 · Body Snatchers is a 1993 science fiction horror film, directed by Abel Ferrara and based on Jack Finney's novel The Body Snatchers. The story follows an Environmental Protection Agency agent and his family, who uncover a chilling alien invasion in a small military town, where humans are being replaced by emotionless duplicates.
- IT’S BASED ON A MAGAZINE SERIAL. In November and December of 1954, Collier’s magazine ran a three-part series that would come to be called “the year’s most original story of suspense.”
- IT WAS SHOT IN JUST 23 DAYS. With a modest $380,000 budget (roughly $3.3 million in today’s dollars), Invasion of the Body Snatchers started filming in Sierra Madre, California on March 23, 1955.
- DIRECTOR DON SIEGEL PRANKED HIS LEAD ACTRESS WITH ONE OF THE FAKE PODS. The film’s heroine, Becky Driscoll, was played by Dana Wynter. Rumor has it that Siegel once broke into Wynter’s home and hid a human-sized pod prop under her bed, though the actress remembered the incident differently.
- THE LEADING MAN SUGGESTED A TITLE CHANGE. In the film, alien pods replace slumbering people with emotionless duplicates. Hence, when Kevin McCarthy landed the lead role of Dr. Miles Bennell (who discovers what’s really going on), he suggested that Invasion of the Body Snatchers should be renamed Sleep No More.
Dec 22, 2023 · But 45 years ago, Hollywood gave us that rarest of birds: a horror remake that’s not only great, but actually surpasses the original. 1978’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a potent mix of ...
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Feb 25, 1994 · “Body Snatchers” had its world premiere last May in the official competition of the Cannes Film Festival, where the outspoken Ferrara did not endear himself by claiming that Jane Campion’s “The Piano” was such a favorite “the jury gave her the award when she got off the plane.” Certainly “Body Snatchers” is not the kind of movie that wins festivals: It is a hard-boiled entry ...
