BODY BAGS

JOHN CARPENTER - "THE CORONER"

"Body Bags" was a horror anthology containing three stories: "The Gas Station" which has a female college student working a graveyard shift and getting terrorized by a serial killer, "Hair" about a hair transplant which goes horribly wrong, and "The Eye" where a baseball player loses an eye and gets a new one from a recently executed murderer; featuring John Carpenter as a creepy-looking and deranged coroner who introduces the three stories while drinking formaldehyde as if it were a martini, and it looked like the start of a wickedly demented series. JOHN CARPENTER From IMDB John Howard Carpenter was born on 16 January 1948, in Carthage, New York, to mother Milton Jean (Carter) and father Howard Ralph Carpenter. His family moved to Bowling Green, Kentucky, where his father, a professor, was head of the music department at Western Kentucky University. He attended Western Kentucky University and then USC film school in Los Angeles. He began making short films in 1962, and won an Academy Award for Best Live-Action Short Subject in 1970, for "The Resurrection of Broncho Billy" (1970), which he made while at USC. Carpenter formed a band in the mid-1970s called The Coupe de Villes, which included future directors Tommy Lee Wallace and Nick Castle. Since the 1970s, he has had numerous roles in the film industry including writer, actor, composer, producer, and director. After directing "Dark Star" (1974), he has helmed both classic horror movies like "Halloween" (1978), "The Fog" (1980), and "The Thing" (1982), and noted science fiction tales like "Escape from New York" (1981) and "Starman" (1984). Below is a trailer & opening for the movie: "Body Bags" - trailer and opening from The Professor's Scary Clips on Vimeo.

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Internet Movie Data Base "Body Bags"

The Ultimate Rabbit "Sandy King Revisits Body Bags"

Internet Movie Data Base "John Carpenter"

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