Body Bags (1993)

Three short stories in the horror genre: the first about a serial killer, the second about a hair transplant gone wrong, and the third about a baseball player.

Directors:

John Carpenter, Tobe Hooper

Writers:

Billy Brown, Dan Angel

Stars:

John Carpenter, Tom Arnold, Tobe Hooper

4 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
John Carpenter	...	The Coroner (segment "The Morgue")
Tom Arnold	...	Morgue Worker #1 (segment "The Morgue")
Tobe Hooper	...	Morgue Worker #2 (segment "The Morgue")
Robert Carradine	...	Bill (segment "The Gas Station")
Alex Datcher	...	Anne (segment "The Gas Station")
Peter Jason	...	Gent (segment "The Gas Station")
Molly Cheek	...	Divorcee (segment "The Gas Station")
Wes Craven	...	Pasty Faced Man (segment "The Gas Station")
Sam Raimi	...	Dead Bill (segment "The Gas Station")
David Naughton	...	Pete (segment "The Gas Station")
George 'Buck' Flower	...	Stranger (segment "The Gas Station") (as Buck Flower)
Lucy Boryer	...	Peggy (segment "The Gas Station")
Roger Rooks	...	TV Anchorman (segment "The Gas Station")
Stacy Keach	...	Richard Coberts (segment "Hair")
David Warner	...	Dr. Lock (segment "Hair")

Storyline

Three short stories in the horror genre: the first about a serial killer, the second about a hair transplant gone wrong, and the third about a baseball player.

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Plot Keywords:

alliteration in title | two word title | horror anthology | anthology film | night shift | 

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Taglines:

Zip yourself in tight!

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Genres:

Comedy | Horror | Sci-Fi

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for sexuality and horror violence

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

8 August 1993 (USA)

Also Known As:

John Carpenter Presents 'Mind Games'

Filming Locations:

Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

187, Showtime Networks

Technical Specs

Runtime:

91 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The last story in The movie "Body Bags" is entitled "Eye," and the story has a particularly strange personal connection to both lead actors Mark Hamill and Lesley Lawson (better known as the model "Twiggy"). In "Eye" Mark Hamill is a minor league baseball player who crashes his car and loses his right eye, and Lawson plays his wife. In 1977, Hamill crashed his car in real life and required seven hours of reconstructive surgery to his face, leaving his appearance noticeably changed in the movie "Return of the Jedi." Lesley Lawson's first husband In real life was actor Michael Whitney. Before he started his acting career Whitney played for the Hornell Dodgers and the Great Falls Electrics, both minor league baseball teams.

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Goofs

When the dead Coroner is being cut open by one of the Morgue's attendants, he lifts his head up in a comical spoof. Yet the other attendant who fetched the coffee was coming back, and despite looking at his direction didn't see the coroner move.

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Quotes

The Coroner: Ah, body bags. You see, if it's murder, suicide or a nasty accident, they put them in here.

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Alternate Versions

The DVD version is a severely cut version of the original Pay TV release, eliminating a lot of the more violent and gory images.

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Connections

References The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

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Soundtracks

ALMOST CUT MY HAIR
Written by David Crosby
Performed by Crosby Stills Nash & Young (as Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young)
Published by Stay Straight Music (BMI)
Courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corp.
By Arrangement with Warner Special Products

User Reviews

Mixed bag

Three stories courtesy of John Carpenter and Tobe Hooper, sounds like it can't miss, right? The results are mixed, but pretty interesting all the same.

The Gas Station is vintage Carpenter. Here he maximizes the effect from a truly simple premise and creates a genuinely scary story. It's simple, but the final minutes are riddled with tension and general uneasiness. The best of the bunch.

Hair is a truly funny story with a terrific performance by Stacy Keach. It goes way over the top towards the end, but still, it's highly amusing for the most part.

Eye, the weakest of the three, due to it's complete and utter predictability and complete failure of generating any real chills. It's fun to see Hamill and it's pretty gory but that's about it.

One terrific story, one pretty good and one pretty bad, all in all, it's worth watching but it's nothing spectacular.