![]() ![]() So it's clear why they would be interested in revisiting a beloved classic of the genre. The film's writing credits include B-movie masters Larry Cohen and Stuart Gordon, famous for, respectively and among others, The Stuff and Re-Animator, films whose practical gore effects and allegorical cores hearken back to the sci-fi of the 50s and early 60s. ![]() The villain remains always the same: conformity, relinquishing of the messy individual self to an organized, indifferent cadre of pod people who look and feel seductively like the real thing – until they fail to respond to a chaotic situation or, in the case of the '78 and '93 versions, let out an insane, blood-curdling shriek while pointing at any uninitiated freaks.Ībel Ferrara's take on the story, given a limited release in 1993 and very un-coolly underseen, fits surprisingly neatly in the tradition. Such is the case with Jack Finney's novel The Body Snatchers (1955), first adapted for film in 1956 and revisited in 1978, 1993, and finally (so far) in 2007. ![]() ![]() Sometimes an allegory is so potent and speaks to the most elemental American mythos it must be re-presented over and over again, every decade or two. ![]()
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