Body Snatchers

Marjorie Baumgarten

With a startlingly climactic finale, Body Snatchers only underscores the ultimate illogic of placing your trust in your kin. ( Read More )

Roger Ebert

But as sheer moviemaking, it is skilled and knowing, and deserves the highest praaise you can give a horror film: It works. ( Read More )

Now Ferrara, director of Bad Lieutenant and many offbeat genre films (Driller Killer, Fear City), returns the story to its low budget roots. ( Read More )

Felix Vasquez Jr.

Body Snatchers is an entertaining horror adaptation overall, even if it is very flawed, but director Abel Ferrara tackles the material competently with some adamant suspense to be had. ( Read More )

Nick Schager

Yet despite its seemingly cant miss creative trio, the film turned out to be little more than a mildly evocative sci fi thriller without much in the way of an idiosyncratic identity, lacking both Ferraras signature directorial flourishes as well as the pulsating allegorical depth of Siegels original and Philip Kaufmans gorgeous 1978 version. ( Read More )