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5 Things You Need To Know About... Snatchers

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June 2017

Gore and gung-ho gals in the streaming horror series that’ll have you grinning.

5 Things You Need To Know About... Snatchers

IT’S A BATSHIT CRAZY GENRE-BLENDER

1 What happens when you splice Night Of The Creeps with Rosemary’s Baby and Mean Girls? Well, you get Stage 13’s new streaming miniseries Snatchers, an eight-parter that puts the pain in pregnancy as high schooler Sara (Mary Nepi) starts spawning alien parasites after shacking up with her boyfriend. Turning to her nerdy ex-bestie Hayley (Gabrielle Elyse) for help, Sara staggers from one bloody scene to the next as their hometown devolves into a hotbed of horror. “When you have ‘teen pregnancy’ and ‘aliens’, there’s no limit to what you can do!” laughs Nepi.

IT’S BEEN SIX YEARS IN THE MAKING

2 Before Stage 13 came onboard, writer-directors (and real-life high-school buddies) Stephen Cedars, Benji Kleiman and Scott Yacyshyn originally planned

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