“LOL”
STUDENT BODIES
1981/15/82m
“13½ murders + 1423 laughs = [Student Bodies]”
Director/Writer: Mickey Rose / Cast: Kristen Riter, Matt Goldsby, Richard Brando, Joe Talarowski, Mimi Weddell, Joe Flood, Carl Jacobs, Peggy Cooper, Janice E. O’Malley, Angela Bressler, Kevin Mannis, Sara Eckhardt, The Stick.
Body Count: 13½
A killer known as The Breather, who wears squelchy galoshes and talks through a rubber chicken, is offing the sexually active couples of Lamab High School, using eggplants, paperclips, and various other bizarre weaponry. Goody-goody heroine Toby is determined to find out who it is before any more of her friends end up dead.
Many-a-joke about farts, erections, urinals, but little to say about the contemporary slasher film trend, bar the first few minutes. Ultimately it knifes itself in the foot with bizarre dream sequences and a really, really confusing ending, plus the feeling it thinks the audience is pretty dumb.
Pandemonium remains the best parody of the era, but at least Student Bodies can declare itself superior to Wacko and National Lampoon’s Class Reunion.
I believe the killer calls himself “The Breather”, hud. Click!
Damn my crap typing abilities!
The early slasher spoofs are vaguely fascinating in that the genre was still gestating so the satirists had barely any idea of what they were doing, the result frequently being weird lol so random toilet humor comedies with barely any slasher tropes and ones from other horror subgenres haphazardly thrown in.