Body Snatchers - attack the body eater
| Movie | |
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| German title | Body Snatchers - attack the body eater |
| Original title | Body snatchers |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1993 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Abel Ferrara |
| script |
Larry Cohen , Stuart Gordon , Dennis Paoli, Nicholas St. John |
| production | Robert H. Solo |
| music | Joe Delia |
| camera | Bojan Bazelli |
| cut | Anthony Redman |
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Body Snatchers is an American science fiction / horror film from 1993 . It is - after The Demonic and The Body Eaters are coming - the third film adaptation of Jack Finney's novel The Body Eaters are coming . Directed by Abel Ferrara .
The film depicts an alien invasion of a military base in the state of Alabama , USA. The invaders copy the bodies of people down to the last detail, whose corpses they then make disappear. The only difference between the duplicates and the human originals is the absence of any emotion.
action
The biologist Steve Malone is sent to a military base in the US state of Alabama to investigate its possible impact on the ecosystem in the area. He is accompanied by his teenage daughter Marti from his first marriage, his second wife Carol and his little son Andy from his second marriage. Marti has a distant relationship with her family; instead, she befriends the helicopter pilot Tim.
At the base, there are increasing signs that soldiers stationed there and their family members are adopting unfamiliar behavior, losing all emotion and showing conformist behavior. Marti's half-brother Andy watches how Carol is replaced while she sleeps by an outwardly identical but callous copy. First of all, nobody believes his observations. After Marti and her father have almost been replaced in their sleep by doubles growing in large pods , they and Andy flee from the duplicated people who are already in the majority.
Marti is the only member of her family to escape with Tim's help, who was able to steal a helicopter from the base in time. Tim bombs the army trucks loaded with pods to spread the invasion, to the satisfaction of Marti, who openly formulate her hatred. It remains to be seen whether the invasion was successfully averted. From the off Carol's voice is heard with the evocative words: "Where do you want to run where you want to go where you're going to hide? Nowhere ... because there is none of your kind left. "
criticism
"Third film adaptation of a well-known novel; a no-frills horror film calculated down to the last detail, which with its apocalyptic story also wants to warn against neo-fascism. "
"[...] by far the best film [in the series]."
"[...] a soulless imitation of Don Siegel's 1956 original and Philip Kaufman's 1978 remake."
"The idea of a military base as a symbol of mindless conformism is not really illuminating, and the characters are only vague and poorly developed."
background
Body Snatchers shifts the plot of its predecessors The Demonic and The Body Eaters , which were located in a small California town or San Francisco , to a US Army military base in Alabama . The conformist, tightly organized alien society invaded a free civil society in the first two films. In Body Snatchers , Roger Ebert emphasizes, a connection is made between the rigid conformity of the army and the behavior of the “pod people”, which appears as an increase in the same code of conduct.
Body Snatchers is the film that - compared to the film adaptations of 1956 and 1978 - is furthest away from the original. Although Steve Malone, like Miles / Matthew Bennell in the earlier versions, has a medical-scientific profession, the main character in this film is his daughter Marti. The figure of Becky / Elizabeth (Bennell's partner and companion during his attempt to escape from the invaders) is missing, as is Dr. Kaufman / Kibner and the Belicecs. In contrast, two elements that were dropped in the 1978 version were re-included: A little boy (Jimmy Grimaldi in the 1956 film adaptation, here Marti's half-brother Andy) claims that his mother is not his "real" mother. In addition, the film again contains a voiceover of the main character who comments on the events. Two ideas introduced in the 1978 version were also taken up again: the remains of the human "originals" are collected by garbage trucks. In addition, the duplicates utter an inhuman scream when they discover a "real" person in order to betray him.
Body Snatchers was director Abel Ferrara's first foray into the science fiction and horror film genres. Producer Robert H. Solo produced the previous film The Body Eaters are coming . Because the distribution company Warner Brothers started the film with a small number of copies in only a few cinemas, it brought in only 428,868.00 US dollars when it was first released in the USA .
The film was nominated for the Saturn Award in the category Best Science Fiction Film in 1995 and was shown in competition at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1993 . The film opened in German cinemas on October 7, 1993.
literature
- Jack Finney : Die Körperfresserommen (Original title Invasion of the Body Snatchers ), Goldmann, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-442-23324-0 .
Web links
- Body Snatchers - Attack of the Body Snatchers in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Body Snatchers - attack of the body eater. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ "[...] by far the best of the films [...]" - Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2010 , Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2009.
- ↑ "[...] a soulless replica of Don Siegel's 1956 model and Philip Kaufman's 1978 update." - Richard Harrington in: The Washington Post , February 18, 1994.
- ↑ "The notion of a military base as a symbol of mindless conformity isn't exactly revelatory, and the characters remain sketchy and underdeveloped." - Owen Gleiberman in: Entertainment Weekly , February 11, 1994.
- ^ "There is a crafty connection made between the Army's code of rigid conformity, and the behavior of the pod people, who seem like a logical extension of the same code." - Roger Ebert in: Chicago Sun-Times , February 25, 1994 .
- ^ Body Snatchers in the Internet Movie Database .