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BODY SNATCHERS - REVIEW

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It seems like every couple of decades, we get an Invasion Of The Body Snatchers movie. The brilliant original, of course, was pure Communist paranoia, the 1978 Donald Sutherland-starring remake was a gloomier and scarier take on the whole thing and Abel Ferrara's 1993 attempt, Body Snatchers , was... not quite as good but still surprisingly worthy. Set on an army base this time, we follow a doctor and his family as they move in next to the base for the Summer while the father checks out a supposed toxic spill in the water nearby. Very quickly, it's quite clear that something dodgy's going on with the people living around the base and the army guys themselves. You've got Forest Whitaker's Major, who doesn't seem to buy that this is just a toxic spill and certain people walking around like zombies acting completely out of character. The film starts off slow with Gabrielle Anwar's character meeting new people and the family adjusting to this change of

THE ADDICTION - REVIEW

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Whoever said that vampire movies needed to be fun? Not Abel Ferrara, that's for sure. The Addiction is many things but fun isn't one of them. This is a vampire film that's as dark as night and miserable as hell, it's not there to entertain or sugar-coat anything: it's there to be mostly unsettling. The whole vampires-as-junkies metaphor lacks some subtlety throughout the whole film, to be honest, but it's an interesting approach and you do want to stick around and see in which direction they take it. Personally, I much prefer Near Dark 's more subtle take on that but The Addiction's monochrome, bleak-as-can-be attitude provides a slightly more brutal and raw outlook which you don't see very often in that type of film. The plot follows a philosophy student, played by Lili Taylor who, long before she lost her shit in The Conjuring , was already a pro at looking wounded and just plain depressed. She gets bitten by vampire and slowly starts to t