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Student Bodies
1981 · Film · 86 min
Directed by Mickey Rose
This zany send-up of teen slasher flicks features a maniacal psycho known as the Breather, who stalks –and murders– promiscuous students at a suburban high school. The fanatical killer's unusual weapons include paper clips, blackboard erasers and eggplants.
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Naturally standards change. However, back in the day there was a forgettable, campy slayer film called, I think, “Student Bodies”. I saw it because it was playing at the $2 double feature second run movie house and had air conditioning in the summer. I pretty much went there every week regardless of what was playing.
Anyway, in the middle of the movie, a fellow appears behind a desk and says something like “Everyone knows that movies with a R rating make more money. So in order for us to get that, ‘F… you’. “
And, that was apparently enough. Can’t speak to whether the tactic was effective.
I think it was the US TNT cable tv network that used to run a late night “100% Weird” movie block on Saturday nights that used a lot of clip art from this movie in their promo spots and actuality showed this movie one night - it was the first and only time I’ve ever seen it. It mostly triggers flashbacks to my own parents obsession with trying to get me to play the piano.
It’s really hard to find movies like this anymore, nobody bothers to stream them. If you know about them you can sometimes find them on Amazon but if you don’t know them I don’t know how you’d ever discover them.
There was one movie called Night Patrol which was a standard police farce movie except the main character (credited as “the unknown comic”) wore a paper bag over his head in every scene.
And all of the Trama Team movies from the 80s - Toxic Avenger, Surf Nazis Must Die, Rock ‘N Roll High School.
And the worst horror film ever -Student Bodies - which had an on-screen body count, helpful pointers to the fatal mistakes each character made before they died, and the main bad guy “The Breather” who would lose all his footwear every time he went up stairs because he’d constantly step in gum.
Even NetFlix doesn’t roll out gems like those.