Student Bodies (1981)

User Rating:

5.5/10   

Director:

Mickey Rose

Writer:

Mickey Rose (writer)

Release Date:

7 August 1981 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Horror | Mystery

Tagline:

131/2 Murders + 1423 Laughs = Student Bodies

Plot:

A killer named the Breather terrorizes students at a high school. Whenever the killer finds students having sex...

Plot Keywords:

Killer | High School | Fall From Window | Splatter | Bleachers

Cast

Kristen Riter	...	Toby
Matthew Goldsby	...	Hardy (as Matt Goldsby)
Richard Belzer	...	The Breather (as Richard Brando)
Joe Flood	...	Mr. Dumpkin
Joe Talarowski	...	Principal Peters
Mimi Weddell	...	Miss Mumsley
Carl Jacobs	...	Dr. Sigmund
Peggy Cooper	...	Ms. Van Dyke
Janice E. O'Malley	...	Nurse Krud
Kevin Mannis	...	Scott
Sara Eckhardt	...	Patti
Brian Batytis	...	Wheels
Cullen G. Chambers	...	Charles Ray
Joan Browning Jacobs	...	Mrs. Hummers
Angela Bressler	...	Julie

Runtime:

86 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Canada:18+ (Quebec) | Australia:M | UK:15 | USA:R | West Germany:16 | Canada:14A

Filming Locations:

Houston, Texas, USA

Company:

Allen Smithee Classic Films

Trivia:

The hilarious bit where the 'executive producer' addresses the audience and says 'fuck you' for an R rating was actually added to earn Student Bodies an R rating!

Goofs:

Continuity: When the African student arrives in wood shop, he is told he is late because it is already June. The principal's office has a calendar hanging dated as March, however.

Quotes:

Charlie: Julie, you're not responding to my maleness.

Movie Connections:

Spoofs Psycho (1960)

Dead-on(ahem)parody of eighties slasher flicks

STUDENT BODIES is a great, satirical take on the bevy of horror flicks that flooded theater and drive-in screens(and consequently, polluted video store shelves)in the eighties. Watching this group of no-name actors trudge through all the stock situations that teens in these flicks find themselves in goes to show how the people who conceived and made this flick got the joke long before most of us. What's incredible is that this movie came out in 1981, well before the genre peaked and the films became stale variations of HALLOWEEN, FRIDAY THE 13TH, OR NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET. While SCREAM was a black comedy/satire that pays homage to the genre(and served to revive it), STUDENT BODIES plays it strictly for laughs, thumbing its nose at all the insolent jerks and dumb bimbos who, despite having knowledge of a killer on the loose, wander alone through isolated woods or dark hallways and wind up on the wrong ends of axes, chainsaws, butcher knives, or pitchforks. Now, who stole my paperclip?