A teenage girl has sex for the first time and wakes up the next day pregnant with an alien who wants to multiply and conquer the world.
Funny and entertaining, that’s it! Starting with living, breathing high school clichés, I couldn’t see how this would be promising. Boy, am I glad to be wrong. Snatchers might not be horror per se but, as aforementioned, it is funny and highly entertaining! Mary Nepi, Gabrielle Elyse, J.J. Nolan, Austin Fryberger, Rich Fulcher, and Ashley Argota are nailing their parts and under the meticulous guidance of the directors Stephen Cedars and Benji Kleiman, who are in full control of every shot they’ve taken, and through ‘snappy’ editing, they control the narrative’s pace and rhythm throughout all acts. I know it’s not a film that has been or will be discussed, but films like Snatchers highly indicate that editing defines principal photography. In other words, postproduction starts in preproduction, however convoluted that may sound.
There is so much to say about specific filmmaking details, just like the one mentioned above, but honestly, I find no reason to implicate film theories when you can just enjoy it without my verbosity. It makes one wonder about the reasons behind certain malicious reviews when even just watching the trailer, you know what you signed up for. The script’s nonsensical trajectory makes actually sense as it adds to the non-believability which is actually intentional and slyly parodies similar actual horror films that most of us have grown up with.
To sum it up, Snatchers is great fun, especially for millennials but not only. Don’t take it seriously as, again, intentionally, it doesn’t take seriously itself. Something that I actually prefer to self-righteous and self-important films that aim to pseudo-philosophise, be wannabe didactic, or end up being pedantic. Based on the 2015 6-minute homonymous short film by the same directors and main actors, Snatchers earns its stripes in the comedy/horror pantheon, and I look forward to watching Kleiman’s and Cedars’ next project. Remember, the comedy-horror balance is not written in stone, and it takes a whole village to be achieved.
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