Friday, 8 February 2008

Film: Student Bodies (1981)

Ladies and gentlemen, in order to achieve an "R" rating today, a motion picture must contain full frontal nudity, graphic violence, or an explicit reference to the sex act. Since this film has none of those, and since research has proven that R-rated films are by far the most popular with the moviegoing public, the producers of this motion picture have asked me to take this opportunity to say "Fuck you."

A murderer calling himself 'The Breather' is going around campus killing any teenagers who happen to be sexually active in this spoof of slasher movies of late the 70s.



What with the current success of the Scary Movie franchise some may call this film ahead of it's time when really it isn't coming from an era when both slasher movies and spoofs such Airplane and Kentucky Fried Movie were at their peak. Made during the 80s writers strike Paramount uses these as a no risk business model, unfortunately the film was a complete failure which probably wasn't a huge problem since the film was pretty low budget.



The film itself has a few laughs a long, never as memorable as Airplane or KFM but enough to make this film worthwhile partly as a comedy but mostly as a trash low budget horror. And for the connoisseurs of bad cinema you should be happy to know that Student Bodies is produced by non other than [an] Allen Smithee.

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