"Body Bags" is a 1993 anthology hosted horror movie with John Carpenter as "The Coroner"."Body Bags" is a 1993 anthology hosted horror movie with John Carpenter as "The Coroner"."Body Bags" is a 1993 anthology hosted horror movie with John Carpenter as "The Coroner".
- Awards
- 4 nominations total
George 'Buck' Flower
- Stranger (segment "The Gas Station")
- (as Buck Flower)
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- Writers
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
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- TriviaThis film features many great horror directors who act and/or direct. John Carpenter, director of Halloween (1978), plays "The Coroner" who introduces each segment, as well as directs two of the stories, "The Gas Station" and "Hair." Tobe Hooper, director of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), plays "Morgue Worker # 2" and directs the last segment, "The Eye." Wes Craven, director of A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), plays "Pasty-Faced Man" at the gas station. Sam Raimi, director of "The Evil Dead (1981), plays "Dead Bill" in "The Gas Station. Roger Corman plays Dr. Bregman in the segment "Eye."
- GoofsIn "The Gas Station" when "Bill" falls to the floor after being struck by Anne, you can briefly see his prop machete fold as it hits the ground.
- Quotes
The Coroner: [looking at bodies] Natural causes... Natural causes... Natural causes... I hate natural causes! Give me a big stab wound to poke at and then I'm happy.
- Alternate versionsThe DVD version is a severely cut version of the original Pay TV release, eliminating a lot of the more violent and gory images.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Unzipping Body Bags (2013)
- SoundtracksAlmost Cut My Hair
Written by David Crosby
Performed by Crosby Stills Nash & Young
Published by Stay Straight Music (BMI)
Courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corp.
By arrangement with Warner Special Products
Featured review
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.
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.
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- Eye
- Filming locations
- 13030 Pearblossom Hwy, Pearblossom, California, USA(gas station, segment "The Gas Station")
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