Body Bags (1993)

Directed by

Tobe Hooper, John Carpenter

Genre

horror film, science fiction film, slasher film, science fiction horror film, body horror television series, comedy horror film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 31m

Rated

R

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 388 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A horror anthology film hosted by a morgue attendant. It tells three separate scary stories: a gas station attendant faces weird customers, a man gets a bad hair transplant, and a baseball player receives a cursed eye transplant.

campyhorror-comedyanthologycreepytongue-in-cheekunevenmacabreb-movie feel

What happens

Body Bags is a 1993 American horror comedy anthology television film featuring three unconnected stories, with bookend segments featuring John Carpenter, Tom Arnold and Tobe Hooper as deranged morgue attendees. It was directed by Carpenter and Hooper, with Larry Sulkis handling the bookend segments. It first aired on August 8, 1993. It is notable for its numerous celebrity cameo appearances. The first story, "The Gas Station", features Robert Carradine as a gas station attendant with cameos by David Naughton, Sam Raimi, and Wes Craven. "Hair" follows Stacy Keach as he receives a botched hair transplant that infests him with an alien parasite. "Eye" features Mark Hamill as a baseball player who loses an eye in a car accident and receives a transplant, only to be taken over by the personality of the eye's previous owner, a serial killer. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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