The writing credits on Body Snatchers reads like a laundry list of imporant figures in cult cinema of the 70s-90s, the story was co-written by Larry Cohen, adapted into screenplay form by Stuart Gordon and Dennis Paoli and then finally reshaped into something more to director Abel Ferrara's liking by his usual collaborator Nicholas St. John.
And despite all those big names and talented writers, the "where you gonna go? where you gonna hide?" monologue that ends up serving as…