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Student bodies is a 1981 slasher spoof film. I had not heard about this film till sometime in high school. A guy I knew ,who knew how much I was into horror,loaned me his VHS of it. And I really enjoyed the film. Well I didn't see the film again till at least 10 years later. I saw a divx rip of the film on a torrent site. So I downloaded it and enjoyed it even more this time. So when a few weeks ago I saw that The Movie Channel was airing it,I had to record it. Turns out they aired a nice looking wide screen print.
We start off with a teenage girl who is babysitting some kids. The kids go to bed and the babysitter is waiting on her boyfriend to show up. Well the phone rings and it is someone who keeps breathing super heavy. She hangs up,but the phone rings again. She picks it up and cum starts coming outta the phone. Well she freaks out,but her boyfriend shows up. She sends him off to shower and heads to one of the bedrooms to get ready to have sex with him. Well the killer turns up and we get a great scene of him trying to figure out what weapon he wants to use. He has many many choices but ends up selecting a paperclip.
Well all through out the film we get all kinds of sight gags. Like every time someone is killed we get an onscreen counter to tell us how many people are dead. We also get some onscreen clues as to the various suspects. This film is in some ways like the Naked gun series,in that there is some many gags happening that it takes multiple viewings to see them all.
There is two things about this film that most people remember now. The first one is a short scene about half way in the film. The movie stops and we see an older man sitting behind a desk. He informs us that to get a R rating a film must have graphic violence,graphic nudity or graphic reference to the act of sex. And since it is proven that R rated movies make more money he tells us to "Fuck Off". The other thing that most people remember is Malvert. Who is the strange looking janitor of the school. He seems to be double jointed. In the credits he is said to be played by someone called The Stick. And not much is known about the Stick.
It seems that in the past 15 years we have gotten a shit pile of films spoofing horror films. But none of them are half as good as Student bodies. And just think Student Bodies was made very early on during the slasher cycle of films. Student Bodies gets a C+.
