Body Bags
Directed by John Carpenter and Tobe Hooper
With John Carpenter, Stacy Keach, Mark Hamill, Twiggy, Sam
Raimi and Robert Carradine
Body Bags is a film composed of three segments, three stories told by the coroner in a morgue.
The first
segment entitled "The Gas Station" tells the story of a student on the first night of her new job at a gas station lost in the countryside, while a dangerous serial killer lurks in the area. Picturesque customers will come to the gas station during the night ...
The second segment entitled "Hair" tells the story of a man who despair over his receding hairline and tries every means possible and imaginable to make his hair grow again, in vain. Then he comes across a television advertising praising the merits of a revolutionary new method in the regrowth of hair. A specific method with ... ... unexpected consequences .
The third and final segment entitled "The Eye" tells how a professional baseball player lost an eye in a car accident, and is offered an opportunity to be transplanted with the eye of a corpse. If the transplant seems to be a success the first few days, the man quickly becomes subject to macabre visions ...
Body Bags is a film to look at, but which reminds more of three episodes of Tales from the Crypt put together than a real feature.
Participation by directors John Carpenter and Tobe Hooper (with a cameo by Sam Raimi in the first segment) as actors, as well as the involvement of well-known actors makes Body Bags a pleasant movie.