Offers a few stunning moments of paranoia-laced terror.

As sheer moviemaking, it is skilled and knowing, and deserves the highest praise you can give a horror film: It works.

'...firmly set in the same universe as the first two films...Abel Ferrara's revamped Body Snatchers didn’t make the cultural impact of the other films, but it manages the same trick of using sci-fi to expose cultural raw nerves...'

The short running time means that we never get to see the characters as full-blooded people -- a detriment in a movie meant to celebrate the individuality of humans.