Body Snatchers

There are perhaps few filmmakers more contradictory than Abel Ferrara. His overlooked 1993 film Body Snatchers provides an unintentional metaphor for his unusual career.

The concept of the sci-fi horror genre allows us to address the built-in terrors and tensions developed in society that are difficult, if not impossible, to actualize and confront directly. It has the strengths of sci-fi’s ability to question our potential as a developed species, breaking current conceptions of reality to attain a scenario that …