‘Body Snatchers’

Abel Ferrara hasn’t merely remade “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” Jack Finney’s classic science-fiction tale of sinister pods from outer space who turn humans into unfeeling automatons. He has re-imagined and reinvigorated it for this 1994 version, using the best of special-effects talent and cool directorial skill to make a splendidly creepy and unsettling piece of genre filmmaking. One thing that Ferrara and his five writers have done is to change the emphasis on the protest against conformity to the more modern horror of paranoia. This time the story is shrewdly set at an Army base in the South, where people are so habitually obedient that it is doubly difficult to determine who is a soulless pod and who is just following orders. With Meg Tilly (pictured), Gabrielle Anwar, Terry Kinney and Forest Whitaker (Cinemax Monday at 2:30 a.m.).