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Crew:

Director: Abel Ferrara
Screenplay: Dennis Paoli, Stuart Gordon, Nicholas St. John
DOP: Bojan Bazelli
Production: Dorset Productions, Robert H. Solo Productions

Body Snatchers

A film by Abel Ferrara

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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 is moving with her father, stepmother, and stepbrother to a military base where her father will investigate possible environmental and ecological problems. Before they get to town, Marty is warned in a gas station restroom by a crazed looking military man that, "They get you when you sleep!" Marty adjusts to life on the base by flirting with a young officer and making friends with the rebellious daughter of the base commander. These friends help her when a plot by aliens to turn all humans into unemotional, unfeeling "pod people" shifts into high gear. As her family and friends are attacked, Marty doesn't know who to trust.
  • Cast:

    Terry Kinney, Meg Tilly, Gabrielle Anwar, Reilly Murphy, Billy Wirth
  • Original Title:

    Body Snatchers
  • Country:

    United States of America
  • Year:

    1993
  • 87'

Crew:

Director: Abel Ferrara
Screenplay: Dennis Paoli, Stuart Gordon, Nicholas St. John
DOP: Bojan Bazelli
Production: Dorset Productions, Robert H. Solo Productions

Director

Abel Ferrara

Born in New York in 1951, Abel Ferrara is an American filmmaker, known for the provocative and often controversial content of his films, his use of neo-noir imagery and gritty urban settings. He maintains a cult reputation that allows him to navigate between large-budget features and decadent B-movie-style tales. A long-time independent filmmaker, his best-known films include Ms .45 (1981), King of New York (1990), Bad Lieutenant (1992), The Funeral (1996) and Pasolini (2014). Abel Ferrara has been a guest of LEFFEST several times, and his work was screened  in a Retrospective at LEFFEST’ 17. He returns this year to the festival to present his new film Padre Pio.
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