I LAST WATCHED BODY SNATCHERS WHEN I WAS SIX. AND WAS CREEPED OUT. SEVENTEEN YEARS LATER I WATCHED IT AGAIN. AND I REMEMBERED ONLY COUPLE OF SCENES SO IT WAS LIKE WATCHING A NEW MOVIE. AND IT STILL CREEPED ME OUT. NOT AS MUCH BUT STILL. IT RETAINS ITS CREEPINESS AND THATS COMMENDABLE CONSIDERING ALL THE HORRIFIC HORROR FILMS I'VE SEEN IN THE LAST 4 YEARS :)
SYNOPSIS: A MAN MOVES WITH HIS FAMILY ,CONSISTING OF HIS SECOND WIFE HER SON AND HIS TEENAGE DAUGHTER FROM FIRST WIFE WHO IS DEAD,TO A MILITARY BASE IN ALABAMA. SOME TOXIC MATERIALS IS BEING HANDLED THERE SO HE HAS TO CHECK IF EVERYTHING'S OK. BUT SOON HE AND HIS DAUGHTER REALIZE THAT WHAT SEEMS LIKE HUMANS AROUND THEM ARE INFACT ALIENS. N NOW THEY HAVE TO RUN AS FAST AS THEY CAN ,WITHOUT GIVING IN TO SLEEP, TO SURVIVE.
ITS LOOSELY BASED ON JACK FINNEY'S 1955 NOVEL THE BODY SNATCHERS. AND IT ALREADY HAS COME TWICE ON CELLULOID. ONCE DIRECTED BY DON SIEGEL. THE 2ND BY PHILIP KAUFMAN.AND 15 YEARS LATER COMES THE ABEL FERRERA VERSION WHICH IS A LITTLE MORE BLOODY N LESS PSYCHOLOGICAL THAN ITS PREDECESSORS. A NOVEL TRANSLATED ONSCREEN THRICE IN 40 YEARS SHOWS HOW MUCH IT REMAINS AS VIABLE AS IT WAS IN THE FIFTY'S. THE ALLEGORY THE FEAR THE SUBTLE POLITICAL POTSHOTS WHICH THE NOVEL TOOK CAN BE INTERPRETED IN SO MANY WAYS IN SO MANY REGIONS AROUND THE WORLD. AND THATS ITS STRENGTH. EVEN IF IT WAS MADE NOW YOU COULD RELATE TO IT :)
THE GANGS OF NEW YORK DIRECTOR ABEL FERRERA HELMS THIS STUDIO PROJECT N DOES MUCH BETTER THAN EXPECTED. IT IS A KNOWN FACT THAT INDIE DIRECTORS FIND IT HARD TO ADAPT TO STUDIO DEMANDS N CHURN OUT A COMMERCIAL MOVIE. BUT HERE ABEL GIVES HIS BEST N GIVES US A HORROR MOVIE TO CHERISH. CREATING AN ATMOSPHERE OF DREAD WHICH WAS THE NORM BACK IN THE EIGHTIES N NINETIES. IT WONT SCARE YOU TO HELL BUT GENUINELY CREEP YOU OUT,IF N ONLY IF YOU LIKE MOVIES OF THOSE ERA. AND FOR THOSE GENUINELY CREEPY N YUCKY MOMENTS CREDITS SHOULD ALSO GO THE 5 WRITERS WHO WERE USED TO WRITE THE SCREENPLAY. WELL DONE.
ON THE ACTING FRONT ITS A GABRIELLE ANWAR MOVIE. SHE LOOKS CUTE AND ACTS SMARTLY AS A TEENAGER ON THE RUN WITH HIS FATHER N THEN HER BOYFRIEND. MEG TILLY HAS A BRIEF ROLE WHICH ENDS WITH A BLOOD CURDLING SHOUT WHICH MAY HIT YOUR NERVES BADLY. FOREST WHITTAKER HAS A SMALL ROLE IN WHICH WE GET A GLIMPSE OF THE FUTURE HISTRONICS. TERRY KINNEY AS THE DAD N BILLY WRATH AS THE BOYFRIEND DO COMPLETE JUSTICE TO THEIR ROLE TOO.
THE GREAT PLUS WAS THE NIGHT CINEMATOGRAPHY. EVERYTHING IS CAPTURED PERFECTLY AND IN DETAIL. EDITING TOO WAS DECENT. PRODUCTION DESIGN N SPECIAL EFFECTS WERE PRETTY GOOD.
ALL IN ALL A MOVIE WHICH DIDNT SCARE ME BUT WAS STILL INTERESTING AS A SCI FI THRILLER.
HighTension Meter- 6/10.
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