Body Bags (1993)

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

A story collection created by John Carpenter and Toby Hooper, which was made for cable by Showtime in the mid 90's, as often happens with J.C., I was impressed. It has some weird moments and various cameos by several horror directors, which was a very nice touch. It looks like ripoff from The Tales from the Crypt but believe me it is not... Whole movie is narrated through the host himself as a dead man in the morgue, who is alive and talking about dead bodies that just came to the morgue and their stories how they died. First story is about a serial killer wanted by police, who kill ladies near gas stations; second story is about an insecure bald guy who wants to have long hair and his stubborn view on his problem was really funny and gross in some ways and finally the third and the last story was about a baseball player who in his prime career loose his eye and must continue his life without it but on his luck he meets a doctor that wants to do a transplantation of a new eye as an experiment to him. And when he gets the new eye all his world starts to fall apart..It is just pure fun and horror here if you like cheese horror of the 90's and the great John Carpenter... Wes Craven cameo, David Naughton, Sheena Easton and so many more.....this was absolutely awesome. For a fans of John Carpenter and Toby Hooper horror stories like Creepshow and etc. I truly recommend it!Overall rating: 8 out of 10.

A three-story anthology which is successful due to the amount of talent involved. BODY BAGS consists of three strange little tales, two of them very gory indeed, the third an amusing black comedy. None other than John Carpenter hosts the anthology, acting as a crazed morgue attendant who enjoys showing us all the gore and gristle that he can find in the morgue. Cue lots of shots of mangled bodies and various entrails slopping about all over the place.Thankfully the film is done with a tongue in cheek so things don't get too hard to stomach. Carpenter's portrayal brings to mind the Crypt Keeper and his macabre gags, and the film is very close to the spirit of the TALES FROM THE CRYPT television series - except with more talent and more gore. And as was the case with INNOCENT BLOOD, half the fun comes from spotting all the familiar faces popping up in cameo roles. For example, Tom Arnold and Tobe Hooper (who also directs the final episode) show up as a couple of ghoulish morgue workers! The first story, The Gas Station, is quite a clichéd one and runs like a mini-slasher film, which is no surprise as the director is John Carpenter himself. He throws in a few familiar tricks from HALLOWEEN plus lots of interesting camera-work to make this one interesting and creepy. Alex Datcher is good as the segment's lead, doing all the victim stuff (screaming, running, outwitting the killer, etc.), and Robert Carradine has a great role as her strange-acting colleague. Also putting in cameos are Wes Craven as a pasty-faced customer, David Naughton as a heroic ally, George 'Buck' Flower as a drunk and Sam Raimi (as a corpse!). This segment gets very grisly at the end! Hair isn't a gory tale, but the story is a lot better. Stacy Keach takes the lead as the man losing his hair, while the reliable David Warner puts in a typical performance as the head of the firm which treats him. Of course, Keach's solution starts off brilliantly, and then goes hideously wrong. A simple tale, well told and quite funny with some excellent effects work to recommend it. Here, special effects man Greg Nicotero appears as a dog owner, and Debbie Harry's in here too.The final episode, Eye, is by far the most chilling and disturbing. Some scenes are also difficult to watch, especially those involving Hamill hallucinating that his wife is a corpse as he makes love to her. Yes, that is Mark Hamill as the lead, and he puts in a very good performance too - it's a shame he's been relegated to doing voiceovers in recent years, but at least he's kept working. The organ transplant tale is pretty clichéd and predictable, but executed (no pun intended) well, with good acting from the cast. The eye operations which take place are very gruesome and sometimes sickening to watch, so beware. It's actually quite a tragic tale too. The finale is predictable but fairly exciting. Here, veteran actor John Agar and director Roger Corman play a pair of doctors.So, in the end, BODY BAGS is a pretty average example of a recent anthology, it keeps you watching but doesn't really frighten, just disgusts. As with most American horror films of the '90s, the emphasis is on the special effects and gore instead of the story. If gore's what you're after, though, then you've come to the right place. Otherwise, this is pretty much routine.

Body Bags is a horror anthology film that was intended as a pilot for a Tales from the Crypt knock-off TV series. Thankfully, that series never came to pass. Now it serves as a curiosity for fans of the two big directors attached, John Carpenter and Tobe Hooper. Both Carpenter and Hooper were past their primes by the time this film aired, though Carpenter had substantially more gas left in the tank than Hooper. Body Bags provides further proof of this fact. It features three stories; the first two directed by Carpenter, the last directed by Hooper.Right from the start, the obvious attempt to mimic Tales from the Crypt is evident as we are greeted by a ghoulish-looking coroner who presents the film's stories. The coroner is played by John Carpenter himself, who tries his cackling best to emulate the Cryptkeeper from Tales. Carpenter's acting here is atrocious and it would come as no surprise to me if the TV execs who watched this pilot turned it off within minutes due to this opening."The Gas Station" is about a new attendant (Alex Datcher) on the night shift at a gas station who is stalked by a escaped killer. The second story, "Hair," is about a man (Stacy Keach) obsessed with his thinning hair. So obsessed he is willing to try an experimental treatment. It works too well, however, as his hair won't stop growing. The last story is called "Eye." It's about a baseball player (Mark Hamill) who loses his eye in a car accident. He's given a new eye in an experimental surgery and, you guessed it, the eye belonged to a murderer. And what's this? Now the killer's spirit is taking over his whole body and making him want to kill! This was such an original story....in the 1920s or '30s. The film ends but not before Carpenter does some more schtick as the coroner character, including a bad twist.The first story is easily the best and has touches of classic Carpenter. The second story is passable despite the lame twist ending that is telegraphed early on. The third story is another derivative Hands of Orlac story. It was done many times before 1993 and at least a few times since. Hooper seems more concerned with shock scenes and gore than building any kind of suspense. Truly a mess. The movie's only merits are in the Carpenter segments. Good score, tense direction, fun cameos from the likes of Wes Craven. The best I can say about the Hooper segment is that Mark Hamill did a decent job. Overall, it's a mixed bag film that gets worse as it goes along.

This corpse tells 3 stories, about this other bodies in the morgue "The Gas Station" Anna who arrives for her first job, working the night shift at an all- night filling station And Bill her Boss tell her to care full of people as t a serial killer has broken out of a mental hospital. So she keeps the booth Closed most of time, The short is was on edge, serving people! This short was good, there was some little tense moment in this movie were well done and I really liked the twist was really good and I really liked how the segment ended 7/10 "Hair" Richard Who's is getting bald and then when he see advert on TV about miracle' hair transplant operation, and goes thought with it and really happy with results. Soon he keeps growing in places that never meant to have hair, I not sure what to think of this one, I found this bit of weak story and Some of the effects in this short were poor. 5/10 Decent "Eye" I would say this was the best of bunch, They saved the best for last! Brent ends up losing one of his Eyes, after Car Crash (Which Could have been done better) But there one nasty gory scenes in that Crash, Which I thought was decent.When doctor tells his could get new Eye, after the doctor tells and again after he also happy wit results. Until take Dark turn in the story!I really liked this story, very well paced and some really good acting from the cast, some very wearied scenes in a good way! I liked how the story came to end really good! 8/10 Not bad anthology the whole movie I give 7/10