Body Parts (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Body parts |
| Original title | Body parts |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1991 |
| length | approx. 85 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Eric Red |
| script | Eric Red , Norman Snider |
| production | Michael MacDonald , Frank Mancuso Jr. |
| music | Loek Dikker |
| camera | Theo van de Sande |
| cut | Anthony Redman |
| occupation | |
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Body Parts is an American horror film directed by Eric Red in 1991 . The plot is based on the crime novel Mensch auf Raten (original title: Et mon tout est un homme ) by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac .
action
Bill Chrushank is a frustrated police psychologist. He loses his arm in an accident. When he wakes up in the hospital, he already has another, implanted arm.
Some reflexes of the arm wonder Chrushank. It turns out that the arm belonged to a mass murderer who was recently executed. Chrushank finds the artist Remo Lacey, who was implanted with the killer's other arm.
Chrushank notes that some people who were implanted with the killer's body parts were killed. The implanted head of the serial killer is responsible for this and wants to reunite the body parts. There is a showdown in a laboratory.
Reviews
Richard Harrington wrote in the Washington Post on August 5, 1991 that the plot was " borrowed " from the other films . The film THAT CONDITION " cheap ", it would " hearts and minds " ( " a heart and a brain missing").
Awards
Loek Dikker won the Saturn Award for film music in 1992 . Eric Red for directing, Gordon J. Smith for make-up and the film for Best Horror Film were nominated for the Saturn Award.
background
The film was shot in Toronto . Its production amounted to an estimated 10 million US dollars . The film grossed approximately $ 9.2 million in US cinemas.
In Milwaukee , out of piety , the film was not advertised and shown in cinemas, because shortly before the US theatrical release, the crimes of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer hit the headlines, in whose apartment in Milwaukee the body parts of several victims had been found.
The film was unindexed in December 2017.
literature
- Boileau-Narcejac ( Pierre Boileau , Thomas Narcejac ): People on installments. Detective novel (Original title: Et mon tout est un homme ). German by Eva Rottenberg . 5th edition (31st to 35th thousand). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1970, 123 pages, ISBN 3-499-42115-1
swell
- ^ Review by Richard Harrington
- ↑ Filming locations for body parts
- ↑ Business Data for Body Parts
- ^ Anne E. Schwartz: The Man Who Could Not Kill Enough: The Secret Murders of Milwaukee's Jeffrey Dahmer . Ed .: iUniverse. 2011, ISBN 978-1-4620-6269-0 , pp. 184 .
- ↑ [1]
Web links
- Body Parts in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Body Parts at Rotten Tomatoes (English)