Dir: Abel Ferrara | Scr: Stuart Gordon, Dennis Paoli, & Nicholas St. John | Story: Raymond Cistheri & Larry Cohen | Novel: Jack Finney | Ph: Bojan Bazelli | Prod: Robert H. Solo | Mus: Joe Delia | Ed: Anthony Redman | PD: Peter Jamison | AD: John Huke | Snd: Mike Le-Mare | Cast: Terry Kinney, Meg Tilly, Gabrielle Anwar, Reilly Murphy, Billy Wirth, Christine Elise, R. Lee Ermey, Kathleen Doyle, Forest Whitaker, G. Elvis Phillips
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In this stylishly effective adaptation of Kinney’s much filmed novel, an EPA inspector and his family stumble upon an alien conspiracy to clone the human race (one person at a time), when they arrive at remote army base in Alabama, leaving them with no option but to flee for their lives, aided only by a young chopper pilot, who takes an instant liking to the family’s teenaged daughter. Bazelli’s lighting and Ferrara’s mise en scène dazzle throughout, though the performances are something of a mixed bag, with Whitaker’s full-blooded cameo proving the pick. Wirth’s ironically (and perhaps deliberately) robotic turn also proves strangely captivating.
