Body bags

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Movie
German title Body bags
Original title John Carpenter presents Body Bags
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1993
length 91 minutes
Age rating FSK 16/18 (both shortened)
Rod
Director John Carpenter ,
Tobe Hooper ,
Larry Sulkis ( anonymous )
script Billy Brown ,
Dan Angel
production John Carpenter,
Sandy King ,
Dan Angel
music John Carpenter,
Jim Lang
camera Gary B. Kibbe
cut Edward A. Warschilka
occupation

Body Bags (to German: body bags , original title: John Carpenter Presents Body Bags ) is an American TV - horror film of John Carpenter and Tobe Hooper from the year 1993 , consisting of three episodes. The film is a co-production of Showtime Networks Inc. and 187 Corp., and had its television premiere in the USA on August 8, 1993 on Showtime Networks.

action

  • Episode 1

A brutal mass murderer is haunted by a small town and is having fun in the petrol station where a new employee has just started work. The ripper is eventually overwhelmed and crushed by a hydraulic lift.

  • Episode 2

A man named Richard Coberts, who is suffering from hair loss, wants to restore his hair to its old shine and seeks the help of a hairdresser with a new promising hair growth formula. But after use, the hair continues to grow and eventually becomes unbearably long.

  • Episode 3

Baseball player Brent Matthews, who lost his right eye, receives a new eye through a transplant. But he does not know that it is an eye of a mass murderer. The donor's pathological characteristics are transferred to Brent, he becomes increasingly aggressive and finally kills his wife, whom he buries in the garden. But she returns as a zombie.

criticism

“[...] sometimes unsavory, always banal and only played mediocre. [As a result, the] effort to create humor and tension remains unsuccessful. "

- Lexicon of international film

“Held together by a gruesome morgue frame story, in which John Carpenter plays a living dead person, the viewer is presented with a very mixed episode strip, which clearly wants to be in the tradition of“ The incredibly crazy ghost hour ”. Unfortunately, only the first story staged by Carpenter (a kind of compressed “ Halloween ”) can create the appropriate horror mood, because the rest is just a mediocre repetition of stale ideas [...]. Tobe Hooper's (third episode director) cinematic talent is very limited, and one wonders if he has n't learned anything since joining Cannon . By the way, "Body Bags" is a cable TV film and surprisingly bloody. "

- Frank Trebbin, Fear sits next to you , ISBN 3-929234-03-3

backgrounds

  • Carpenter brought well-known directors of the genre such as Sam Raimi , Tobe Hooper and Wes Craven into his production.
  • The film premiered in Germany and was later released on video and DVD (only in a shortened version).
  • The following VHS / DVD / Blu-ray Discs contain a scene of violence that does not exist anywhere else in the world. [Unrated Version]

1. VHS = Australia, label: "The Home Cinema Group"

2. VHS = Great Britain, Label: "Polygram" (4 Front Video Tape = R-Rated)

3rd DVD = France, labels: "Prism Vision" and new edition of "Aventi"

4. DVD = Italy, label: "Medusa / Manzotti Home Video"

5. Blu-ray Disc = USA, label: "Shout! Factory" (released November 12, 2013).

  • The US DVD by Artisan contains a censored version - despite the R rating . Many violent attitudes have been replaced by much more harmless ones.

Web links

References

  1. ↑ Body Bags. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used