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Student Bodies (1981) 5.4
A killer named the Breather tallies up a score of teenage bodies in this scathing parody of slasher films. Director:Mickey RoseWriter:Mickey Rose |
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Toby
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Matthew Goldsby | ... |
Hardy
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The Breather
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Miss Mumsley
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Dr. Sigmund
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Ms. Van Dyke
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Scott
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Patti
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Charles Ray
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Mrs. Hummers
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Julie
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A killer named the Breather terrorizes students at a high school. Whenever the killer finds students having sex, he kills them. He has some intense issues with which to deal. He likes to breathe heavily, and he likes to make prank calls while talking through a rubber chicken. Written by Josh Pasnak <chainsaw@intouch.bc.ca>
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EnglishRelease Date:
7 August 1981 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
13 Asesinatos y medio See more »Company Credits
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Paramount Pictures, Universal Southwest Cinema, Allen Smithee Classic Films See more »
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The bit where the 'executive producer' addresses the audience and says 'fuck you' for an R rating really was added just to earn Student Bodies an R rating. See more »Goofs
When Toby is on the gurney with the corpse, the dead boy's eyes move. Later his arm moves. See more »Quotes
The Breather: [after repeatedly stepping in gum] I'd like to kill the kid with the gum!See more »
Student Bodies is one of the most over-hyped and acclaimed films by the horror loving public. Personally, I think it suffers the "unheard of gem" syndrome because it's a horror parody that is fifteen to twenty years ahead of movies that set out to do the same idea like Scream and Scary Movie...but there is no way on this earth that it's a better film than those two. Just because a movie is ahead of its time, that doesn't mean it'll be good.
The movie starts out okay only for its script to jump into a whirlpool of unfunny scenarios and jokes. The comedy of this movie is overwhelmingly tedious as the jokes are all dragged out more than three times and often resort to potty humour and sex jokes – not a good move, immaturity can be fun as it's always great to find the child inside us, but really, there are limits and Student Bodies goes way beyond them as the film thinks it is so much funnier than it actually is. The opening scene may mislead you as it parodies the horror "rules" and clichés perfectly but as soon as the first ten minutes are over, bam; here comes the cringe-fest.
The parodies are okay however they're swallowed up by the god awful humour. If the creators knew how to parody "the unseen killer" cliché they would have properly leave him as "The Breather" and occasionally give him jokes to make, not talking throughout the whole film every time he has a scene and especially not noticing the audience – that's annoying and it becomes unbearably unfunny. It's so disappointing seeming as the spoofs and parodies of the clichéd slasher formulated sub-genre seem to be going so well, only to leave you cringing in frustration due to how tediously unfunny the entire film is.
That's all there really is to say. Student Bodies is a parody that relies on its jokes and the jokes are bad so where is the fun in that? There seem to be good ideas to parody the cliché's in horror but they're thrown out the window because the movie is so focused on cramming its humour in your face...and it isn't even funny, it's all ten year old humour. It's a shame as I was really looking forward to where Scary Movie started and sure I saw it, but man was I disappointed. I'd choose Scream over this any day. 3/10