"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
George 'Buck' Flower
- Stranger (segment "The Gas Station")
- (as Buck Flower)
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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
The first segment "The Gas Station" is the only frightening story in this trilogy. Set at night, apparently in the middle of nowhere, it has a plausibilty that the others lack (similarly to Hitchcock's "Psycho", it is scary because it's not completely beyond the realms of possibility). Plenty of atmosphere, a little gore and enough sudden shocks and suspense to make it worthwhile. The second segment is at times funny, but not at all scary. The third is an improvement on the second, but more fantastical than the first and therefore not as frightening.
The scenes with the man in the morgue, between the segments, are pretty weird. Lots of jokes about corpses. Fine, if you like that sort of thing.
The scenes with the man in the morgue, between the segments, are pretty weird. Lots of jokes about corpses. Fine, if you like that sort of thing.
- matthew-58
- Mar 14, 2002
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- Eye
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- 13030 Pearblossom Hwy, Pearblossom, California, USA(gas station, segment "The Gas Station")
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