- Student Bodies
Infobox Film
name = Student Bodies
caption = Theatrical release poster.
director =Mickey Rose
Michael Ritchie (uncredited)
producer =Allen Smithee
writer =Mickey Rose
starring =Kristen Riter
Matthew Goldsby
Cullen Chambers
cinematography =Robert Ebinger
editing =Kathryn Ruth Hope
distributor =Paramount Pictures
released =August 7 ,1981
runtime = 86 minutes
country = USA
language = English
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
amg_id = 1:47442
imdb_id = 0083133"Student Bodies" is an American
comedy film first released onAugust 7 ,1981 , written and directed byMickey Rose . It is a spoof of slasherhorror film s such as "Prom Night", "Halloween", and "Friday the 13th". The film's style of humor can be compared to other spoof films, such as "Airplane! " and "The Naked Gun " (the latter 3 of which were also made byParamount Pictures ). For example, every time somebody dies, an on-screen body count appears.Michael Ritchie produced the movie, but later took his name off the picture and used the well-worn
pseudonym Allen Smithee instead. One of a group of movies directed towardsteenage d audiences during the late 1970s and early 1980s, "Student Bodies" had little box office success when it was originally released. The DVD was released on June 3, 2008.Aside from
Richard Belzer ,Joe Flood , andCullen Chambers , a large number of the cast contains completely unknownactor s andactress es, most of them having appeared only in this film. EvenIMDb holds nothing of their biographies.Plot summary
"Student Bodies" is about a
serial killer who stalks female students at Lamab High School, while at the same time,voyeur isitcally watching them. The killer calls himself "The Breather", presumably because the killer is always breathing heavily.The Breather enjoys
stalking victims over the telephone, and, much likeJason Voorhees of the "Friday the 13th" movies, he hates seeing youngsters having sex. The Breather used many unusual objects to kill his female victims such as a paper clip, an eraser, and a horse-head bookend. He killed his male victims by placing them in trash bags alive.It is initially suspected that the school's principal is the killer. While the principal has a killing instinct, that theory was later proven wrong, as he became the 12th victim when he slipped on marbles and impaled himself while trying to attack a student with a trophy won by the school typewriting team.
The Stick
One of the film's oddest aspects is a character called Malvert, a creepy-looking janitor (itself a familiar trope in slasher movies), who does bizarre things like urinate in trash cans and move about in a herky-jerky fashion. Malvert is played by a tall, double-jointed comedian known only as The Stick [http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0857264/] , who never made another film and passed into obscurity. (The Stick's real identity, or if he is even still alive, remains a mystery.) Several on-line reviews give the film itself a mixed reaction but praise The Stick's performance. [http://www.knobbygirl.com/?q=node/243] [http://www.fatally-yours.com/horror-reviews/student-bodies/] [http://www.411mania.com/movies/columns/9441/Misunderstood-Masterpieces:-Student-Bodies.htm]
Movie cast
*Kristen Riter as Toby
*Matthew Goldsby as Hardy
*Richard Belzer as The Breather
*Joe Flood as Mr. Dumpkin
*Joe Talarowski as Principal Peters
*Mimi Weddell as Miss Mumsley
*Carl Jacobs as Dr. Sigmund
*Peggy Cooper as Ms. Van Dyke
*Janice E. O'Malley as Nurse Krud
*Kevin Mannis as Scott
*Sara Eckhardt as Patti
*Oscar James as the Football Coach
*Kay Ogden as Ms. Leclair
*The Stick as Malvert the Janitor
*Brian Batytis as Wheels
*Cullen Chambers as Charles Ray
*Joan Browning Jacobs as Mrs. Hummers
*Angela Bressler as JulieFilming locations
* Lamar High School (Houston, Texas) — known as Lamab High School in the film. Lamar High is perhaps better known for its use in the film
Rushmore ; the "Grover Cleveland High School" scenes were filmed there.* Also Taylor Highschool (Katy,Texas) The film directors used mostly the football stadium and outdoor scenes mostly on this film and a little bit of the indoor scenes.
Parodies *"Friday the 13th"
*"Halloween"
*"Black Christmas"
*"When a Stranger Calls"
*"Prom Night"
*"Carnival of Souls "
*"Carrie"
*"The Shining"External links
*imdb title|0083133
*amg title|1:47442
* [http://www.411mania.com/movies/columns/9441/Misunderstood-Masterpieces:-Student-Bodies.htm Review at 411mania.com ("Misunderstood Masterpieces")]
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