Student Bodies (1981)

A murderer known as "The Breather" kills off high schoolers.

Directors:

Mickey Rose, Michael Ritchie (uncredited)

Writer:

Mickey Rose

Stars:

Kristen Riter, Matthew Goldsby, Jerry Belson

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Kristen Riter	...	Toby
Matthew Goldsby	...	Hardy (as Matt Goldsby)
Jerry Belson	...	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

Storyline

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.

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Plot Keywords:

two word title | man wrapped in a towel | male rear nudity | buttocks | corpse | 

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Taglines:

13 1/2 Murders + 1423 Laughs = Student Bodies

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Genres:

Comedy | Horror

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Certificate:

R

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

7 August 1981 (USA)

Also Known As:

13 Asesinatos y medio

Filming Locations:

Houston, Texas, USA

Box Office

Opening Weekend USA:

$1,582,148, 9 August 1981, Wide Release

Gross USA:

$5,165,432

Company Credits

Production Co:

Paramount Pictures, Universal Southwest Cinema, Allen Smithee Classic Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

86 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Sara Eckhardt plays Patti the Prom Queen. She is no longer an actress. She is a judge.

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Goofs

When Toby enters a classroom following her session with Dr. Sigmund, a shot of the students is flipped, showing words and letters on clothing backwards.

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Quotes

[as Charlie attempts to make out with her]
Julie: Not here. Not now.
Charlie: Where? When?
Julie: Upstairs. Ten seconds.

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Alternate Versions

Some cuts open with the following on-screen title: "This motion picture is based on an actual incident. Last year 26 horror films were released...None of them lost money."

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Connections

Spoofs The Wizard of Oz (1939)

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Soundtracks

Ode to Joy
(uncredited)
Music by Ludwig van Beethoven
Performed by Lamab High School Marching Band

User Reviews

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?