Review - Student Bodies
STUDENT BODIES [R]
review by Robert Newton
Long the ’80s cable staple, this highly-sought 1981 horror spoof makes its way to DVD for the first time courtesy of Paramount sub-licensor Legend Films, which also just released 1982 riotous Jekyll & Hyde…Together Again. Over a dozen years before Scream parodied the genre, this one, by former Woody Allen co-scribe Mickey Rose, sent up the slasher flicks of its day like Halloween, When A Stranger Calls and Friday The 13th in rapid-fire, relentlessly funny style, and without the need for graphic violence, sex or language. In fact, it had so little of all those things that an announcer interrupts the film and points out that in order to receive the then-desirable “R” rating that a film had to contain an aggressive form of the f-bomb, upon which he tells the audience, “F*** you.”
The story concerns a string of murders at Houston’s Lamab High (nothing […]
Original post by Robert Newton
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