Student Bodies
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Kristen Riter, Matt Goldsby, Richard Brando Director: Mickey Rose Brand: LEG Cinematographer: Robert Ebinger Composer: Gene Hobson Editor: Kathryn Ruth Hope DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language) Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen Picture Format: 1.78:1 Running Time: 86 minutes DVD Release Date: 2008-06-03 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Model: LF00050 Studio: Legend Films |
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Movie Reviews of Student Bodies
Movie Review: "High School Murder Movie"
Summary: 2 Stars
"This motion picture is based on an actual incident. Last year 26 horror films were released...None of them lost money."
Lest you think we're suffering through the heyday of moronic spoof films (Date Movie, Epic Movie, Scary Movie, Meet the Spartans), consider the early 1980s and the glut of fatuous flicks such as Alfred Sole's Pandemonium, Greydon Clark's Wacko, Howard R. Cohen's Saturday the 14th, or this one, Mickey Rose's Student Bodies.
By far the cheapest of the lot, Bodies was written and co-directed by Rose, the onetime writing partner of Woody Allen who helped pen What's Up Tiger Lily?, Bananas, and the classic Take the Money and Run. Any knack for subtlety or humor was sorely lacking by the time Rose wrote this spoof -- the comedy is as broad as a barn and strictly borscht belt.
Filled to the brim with bad puns, awkward sight gags, Dr. Pepper product placement, and parodies of then-recent horror films such as Halloween and Friday the 13th, Bodies stars Kristen Riter as Toby the good girl virgin and Matthew Goldsby as Hardy, the nerd with a heart of gold. The pair investigates a string of murders by The Breather (Richard Brando), an unseen killer who wears galoshes and disguises his voice with a rubber chicken. The Breather knocks off "wild and crazy" oversexed high school students with obtuse objects such as an eggplant, a chalkboard eraser, and a horse head bookend.
Always the mark of quality, Student Bodies was produced by Allen Smithee, this time around taken by Michael Ritchie, who also co-directed. That he disavowed the film while leaving his name on his next one, the misfiring Robin Williams/Walter Matthau "comedy" The Survivors, is a testament to just how bad this film truly is.