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Gabrielle Anwar

Body Snatchers (1993)

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Director: Abel Ferrara
Starring: Gabrielle Anwar, Terry Kinney, Meg Tilly, Forest Whitaker, Billy Wirth

Plot: Director Abel Ferrara (BAD LIEUTENANT) brings his usual blend of brilliance, sex, and brutality to this paranoid sci-fi tale. Gabrielle Anwar stars as Marti, a teenager who moves to a remote southern military base with her EPA inspector father (Terry Kinney), stepmom (Meg Tilly), and little brother, Andy (Reilly Murphy). To say poor Marti finds life on the base strange is a pretty drastic understatement; before she can even unpack her bags, alien pods start replacing her friends and family with dehumanized replicas. A pod even tries to get her when she’s taking a bath. Through it all, Ferrara's surreal, off-kilter direction creates a creepy mood out of ordinary blank landscapes and expressions, and the film never lags, creating an ever-mounting storm of menace. The special effects feature some creepily beautiful imagery of human shapes being generated inside the pods. Forest Whitaker, R. Lee Ermey, Billy Wirth, and Christine Elise costar. With a pounding score and entrancing photography by Bojan Bazelli, this fast-moving adaptation should please fans of the genre, regardless of their faithfulness to the 1956 original.
BODY SNATCHERS is an updated version of INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS that takes place on a United States army base, where emotionless aliens take over the minds and bodies of military officers and civilians alike.

Filmed on location in Alabama. With a budget of $20 million, this was Ferrara's biggest project to date, and he subsequently went back to making smaller films. Jennifer Tilly (BOUND) worked uncredited as a body double for her sister, Meg, in this film.

"...Creeping bad dream naturalism....What's original here are the queasy special effects..." -- Rating: B

"...A tremendously exciting thriller that compares favorably with Don Siegel's classic 1956 original....Ferrara keeps everything under tight control and wisely injects black humor to relieve the tension..."

"Go where? That's right, go where? What happened in your room...Are you listening? What happened in your room is not an isolated incident. It is something that is happening everywhere to everyone. So where you gonna go? Where you gonna run? Where you gonna hide? Nowhere, because there's no one like you left."--pod version of Carol (Meg Tilly) to Steve (Terry Kinney)

"...This one is something special....BODY SNATCHERS nicely plays on two compelling stripes of paranoia....It also puts Meg Tilly's otherworldly beauty to good use..."

Selected Filmography from IMDB:

Try to Remember (2004) (TV) .... Lisa Monroe
Beach Movie (2003) .... Sunny
... aka Board Heads (2003) (Australia)
... aka Boardheads (2003) (USA)
Save It for Later (2003) .... Catherine
... aka Water Under the Bridge (2003) (USA: new title)
Case of Evil (2002) (TV) .... Rebecca Doyle
... aka Sherlock (2002) (TV) (UK)
Flying Virus (2001) .... Ann Bauer
... aka Killer Buzz (2001) (Canada: English title: video title) (USA: video title)
... aka Abelhas - Ataque Mortal (2001) (Brazil)
Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal (2001) (V) .... Kate Hayden
... aka Turbulence 3: Métal hurlant (2001) (V) (Canada: French title)
Without Malice (2000) (TV) .... Susan
How to Marry a Billionaire: A Christmas Tale (2000) (TV) .... Jenny Seeger
... aka How to Marry a Billionaire (2000) (TV) (USA: short title)
North Beach (2000) .... Lu
Guilty, The (2000) .... Sophie Lennon
If You Only Knew (2000) .... Kate
... aka Apartment zum Verlieben, Ein (2000) (Germany)
... aka If You Only Knew (2000) (Germany: TV title)

My Little Assassin (1999) (TV) .... Marita Lorenz
Kimberly (1999) .... Kimberly
Manor, The (1999) .... Charlotte Kleiner
Ripper, The (1997) (TV) .... Florry Lewis
Sub Down (1997) .... Laura Dyson
Nevada (1997) .... Linny
Grave, The (1996) .... Jordan
Innocent Lies (1995) .... Celia Graves
... aka Péchés mortels, Les (1995) (France)
Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995) .... Dagney
In Pursuit of Honor (1995) (TV) .... Jessica Stuart
Three Musketeers, The (1993) .... Queen Anne
For Love or Money (1993) .... Andy Hart
... aka Concierge, The (1993) (Australia) (UK) (USA: working title)
Body Snatchers (1993) .... Marti Malone
"Year in Provence, A" (1993) (mini) TV Series
Scent of a Woman (1992) .... Donna
Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken (1991) .... Sonora Webster
If Looks Could Kill (1991) .... Mariska
... aka Teen Agent (1991)
"Press Gang" (1989) TV Series .... Sam Black (1990)
"Misteri della giungla nera, I" (1990) (mini) TV Series
... aka "Mysteries of the Dark Jungle, The" (1990) (mini)

Prince Caspian and the Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1989) (TV) .... Ramandu's daughter
... aka Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (1989) (TV)
... aka Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1989) (TV)
"Summer's Lease" (1989) (mini) TV Series .... Chrissie Kettering
"First Born" (1988) (mini) TV Series .... Nell Forester
Manifesto (1988) .... Tina
... aka Night of Love, A (1988) (video title)
"Hideaway" (1986) (mini) TV Series .... Tracy Wright

Skinography courtesy of Mr Skin:

Body Snatchers 1994

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