Shocktober: Student Bodies
One of my favorite Halloween movies to watch is the 1981 horror spoof Student Bodies, which was a flop on it’s initial release, and has become a sort of cult movie. It’s filled with corny (and I mean corny) gags, but a lot of those corny gags are pretty funny. It takes place at a local high school - a killer who comes to be known as “the Breather” stalks a high school girl and her friends and kills them when he finds them having sex. It’s filled with spoofs of all the big slasher movies, Halloween, Friday the 13th, Psycho and many more. Surprisingly, the thing it spoofs the most - or rather, it’s biggest reference point is Dario Argento’s classic giallo film The Bird With The Crystal Plumage - which also has a “breather” calling up his victims and whispering hateful things to them. But when the breather calls in Student Bodies, something very different happens. Sort of NSFW. This is so stupid but it cracks me up!
Another super stupid one, but I love how the cast really plays it sorta straight. “Did you hang up?” “No, I just said ‘Click’.”
In the next sequence, we get to hear what’s really going on in all those serial killer’s minds as they spy on young teen girls in the lockeroom. “Belly Button!”
Seriously, how can you not find that funny enough to want to watch? It’s awesome! And so much better than that dumb Scary Movie! It’s great!! Honest!!