Body Bags (TV Movie)

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John Carpenter Presents Body Bags
Directed by	John Carpenter ("The Gas Station" & "Hair") Tobe Hooper ("Eye") Larry Sulkis (Uncredited)
Produced by	Dan Angel John Carpenter Sandy King
Written by	Billy Brown Dan Angel
Starring	Stacy Keach David Warner Sheena Easton Mark Hamill Twiggy Robert Carradine
Music by	John Carpenter Jim Lang
Distributed by	Republic Pictures Corporation
Release date(s)	8 August 1993
Running time	91 min.
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John Carpenter Presents Body Bags is a 1993 horror / thriller TV movie directed by John Carpenter and Tobe Hooper. The film is an anthology, feature three unconnected stories, with bookend segments featuring Carpenter and Hooper as deranged morgue attendees.

The first story, "The Gas Station", features Robert Carradine as a serial killer, with a cameo by Sam Raimi as one of his victims. The trademark of his serial killings were to cut off all toes and fingers of his victims, and freeze dry them to make into "trophy necklaces." "Hair" follows Stacy Keach as he gets a botched hair transplant that inevitably infests him with an alien parasite, and "Eye" is another transplant story, this time featuring Mark Hamill as baseball player who loses an eye in a car accident and receives a transplant, only to be overtaken with the personality of the eye's previous owner — a murderous misogynist.

[edit] Cast

The Morgue

• John Carpenter - The Coroner
• Tom Arnold - Morgue Worker #1
• Tobe Hooper - Morgue Worker #2

The Gas Station

• Robert Carradine - Bill
• Alex Datcher - Anne
• Wes Craven - Pasty Faced Man
• Sam Raimi - Dead Bill
• David Naughton - Pete
• George Buck Flower - Stranger

Hair

• Stacy Keach - Richard Coberts
• David Warner - Dr. Lock
• Sheena Easton - Megan
• Dan Blom - Dennis
• Attila - Man with Beautiful Hair
• Kim Alexis - Woman with Beautiful Hair
• Deborah Harry - The Nurse

Eye

• Mark Hamill - Brent Matthews
• Twiggy - Cathy Matthews
• John Agar - Dr. Lang
• Roger Corman - Dr. Bregman
• Charles Napier - Baseball Team Manager
• Eddie Velez - Baseball Player

[edit] External links

• Body Bags at the Internet Movie Database

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