Student Bodies
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- For the Canadian-produced television series, see Student Bodies (TV series)
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| Directed by | Mickey Rose Michael Ritchie (uncredited) |
| Produced by | Allen Smithee |
| Written by | Mickey Rose |
| Starring | Pate' Rosebottom |
| Music by | Psychostick |
| Cinematography | Robert Ebinger |
| Editing by | Kathryn Ruth Hope |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
| Release date(s) | August 7, 1981 |
| Running time | 86 minutes |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
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Student Bodies is an American comedy film first released on August 7, 1981, written and directed by Mickey Rose. It is a spoof of slasher horror films such as Prom Night, Halloween, and Friday the 13th. The film's style of humor can be compared to other spoof films, such as Airplane! and The Naked Gun. In one scene, for example, sign language is used. Every time somebody dies, an on-screen body count appears.
Michael Ritchie produced the movie, but later took his name off the picture and used the well-worn pseudonym Alan Smithee instead. One of a group of movies directed towards teenaged audiences during the late 1970s and early 1980s, Student Bodies had little box office success when it was originally released. However, the film developed a cult following when it was released on home video, and shown on cable television. Other movies in this group included Porky's, Meatballs, Animal House and Revenge of the Nerds.
[edit] Sypnosis
Student Bodies is about a serial killer who stalks female students at a high school, while at the same time, voyeuring on them as they walk around the school's locker room. The killer's name is "The Breather", because the killer has trouble breathing; therefore, he breathes very hard all the time.
"The Breather" enjoys stalking victims over the telephone, and, much like Jason Voorhees of the Friday the 13th movies, he hates seeing youngsters having sex. He usually stabs his victims.
It is initially suspected that the school's principal is the killer. While the principal has a killing instinct, that theory was later proven wrong, as he became "body number 12" when he slipped over some marbles and stabbed himself to death while trying to attack a student.
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