Somebody else actually saw this movie? - Student Bodies (1981) Discussion

[–] B1-66ER 21 years ago

I love this movie too. I'm surprised other people are posting about it.

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[–] mamamiasweetpeaches 21 years ago

this movie was on cable (WHT if you can remember that far back!) when I was a kid. I watched SOME of it and my parents turned it off. I found out WHEN it would be on again and snuck into thier room while they were sleeping to watch it! Hilarious! Im pretty sure me and my best friend even watched it together over the phone once! Well,now Im a grown up and I have my own copy. I watch it at least once or twice a year.

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[–] bitemelo 21 years ago

I love this movie too. They have it at a video store near me and i always watch it with friends and family. Horse heads make me hot!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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[–] Jaques-Mehoffer 21 years ago

Oh these stairs....eh eh eh...I'm gonna kill the kid with the gum....Surgarless.

Don't Blame Me, I Voted For GORE!

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[–] louknees 21 years ago

This movie is amazing. "Malvert pee Red." Funny story about the way I got my copy. I rented from a video store, and then the video store burned down, so I didn't have to return it. A true classic unlike no other.

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[–] Jaques-Mehoffer 21 years ago

Good way to avoid late fee's.

Don't Blame Me, I Voted For GORE!

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[–] whodunit68 19 years ago

that's a pretty sneaky way to get a video! nice going!

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[–] IronShemp 19 years ago

Whenever I'm on the phone and someone makes a comment about the sound of my voice (like you sound different) I always say

That's because I'm talking through a rubber chicken.

No one ever gets it though!
LOL

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[–] clockworkcanary 19 years ago

Hahaha me too! The other day I was talking on the phone with an old high school friend that I hadn't talked to in about 12 years. She commented that my voice was so much deeper and I replied "well that's because I'm disquising my voice by talking through a rubber chicken" -we both lost it instantly! And she actually knew what the quote was from - I couldn't believe it!

Ah horsehead bookends; freshly stained and everything.

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[–] TequilaMockingbird63 19 years ago

That's because I'm talking through a rubber chicken

hi Iron Shemp,
"i thought it sounded like you were speaking through a rubber chicken"

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[–] robotrix 21 years ago

LOVE this movie. Got my copy off of ONTV many moons ago.

My favorite part is always the "Message from the Producers" to get their "R" rating... :-)

PUT THIS OUT ON DVD, PARAMOUNT!!!!

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[–] toopertrooper 21 years ago

In highschool a friend was taping a movie for me at night and just left the the video taping. When we looked at the movie we thought we'd see what else it got in case it was something good. At first we thought this was horrible but after 15 minutes we were hooked.

This is the funniest horror spoof ever. It's one of my fav funny movies. I had lost my tape and been trying to remember the name for the past few years. I lent the video to a friend to watch and to tape some other movie after it. I never saw the tape again.

I haven't found it out on DVD yet but i'm looking for a video copy. I am always telling my friends about this movie I'd like to show it to them. Hmmmm if i can't find a copy i might just have to find somewhere to rent it and happen to misplace it ;)

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[–] mamamiasweetpeaches 21 years ago

Another funny thing about this movie is from the title STUDENT BODIES my husband thought it was gonna be something like PORKYS or HARD BODIES> I think he was a little disappointed to find out it was a horror satire.

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[–] MalloryMcMallard 21 years ago

I saw this four years ago on Comedy Central and have never forgot it. I just love the objects the killer would use to off the students. Like a bunch of paper clips and of course, the garbage bags.

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[–] jhlavaty 21 years ago

I just saw this movie on cable (May 15, 2004)! So this movie hasn't died yet. It was on MMax - and on at a "normal" time for a Saturday (that is, not at 4 a.m. but at 9 p.m.). I agree with the review - silly, but sometimes it tried to be serious and that's when it flopped. I don't think it's as good as the "Scary Movie" or "Scream" satires of recent years, but it was humorous. As a "teen" of the 80's, I'm not sure how I missed this when it was first released, but it was fun "reliving" those years a bit via this film (with the clothes and hairstyles).

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[–] vaughn_h_99 21 years ago

ONTV was a great service. This may 31 will mark 19 years that it went off the air. I miss ONTV

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[–] the thorn of Thurisaz 21 years ago

This movie came on Cinemax last night. Thankfully, I just happened to be taping it at that time so I have the whole thing on tape, which seems to be a good thing since it seems that copies are hard to find.

I thought it was hilarious until that whole "waking from a dream" ending. Maybe it's just me, but I didn't 'get' that. But until then, I kept thinking how much of an alternative it is to Scary Movie. Scary Movie didn't have those title cards poping up informing us of the body count et al.

I also loved the repeated line of "[fill in blank] get me hot" from all the horny boys

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Formless, faithless, and free.

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[–] genew 21 years ago

I saw this movie during the early 1990's on USA's Up All Night & I instantly fell in love with the movie. Student Bodies is one of the best horror parody movies & this movie even beats out Scary Movie.

BTW: Did anyone else see the horror parody movie called Satuday The 14th which came out not long after Student Bodies?

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[–] wooferx 21 years ago

yup i loved saturday the 14 th, wouldnt mind having a copy of it,

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[–] genew 21 years ago

Well, Saturday The 14Th is on DVD, I've had a DVD copy of Saturday The 14TH for about 1 yr. The sequel called Saturday The 14TH Strikes Back is also on DVD.

Unfortuntely, Student Bodies has yet to make it to DVD in the USA.

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[–] IronShemp 21 years ago

I love this movie!

Student Bodies plays every now and then on Cinemax.
No matter how many times I see this flick I still laugh my butt off.

It's a shame none of the actors went on to do other things.
Hell, Kristen Riter was pretty hot too! LOL

-I said get his KEYS not his CHEESE!

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[–] Sogturtle 20 years ago

I guess I'm one of the VERRRRRY few people who actually saw "Student Bodies" on its theatrical run (way back then). Haven't seen it since but still remember some parts of it (being paper clipped to death, hiding in the shop locker as the chainsaw starts...).

An interesting fact that I doubt you'll ever read anywhere else... According to an article at the time Kristen Riter was an actual bonafide teenager at the time and was found (*as memory serves me) via a talent search for a starlet for the part!!! And the capper is that she was a young girl at a local high school here in Phoenix! (Where is she now??? Only heaven knows!!!)

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[–] bigfishx7 19 years ago

i guess i get to be in the club with you! i also saw "student bodies" during its theatrical run. i laughed myself silly!! i was 15 when i saw it. yes, it was rated r & you were suppose to be 17 & older to get in but back then they always let you in & never questioned you or asked for id.

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[–] will54 20 years ago

The only movie I know of where someone is killed by an eggplant... I loved this movie...

Do you link your own sausage???

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[–] TequilaMockingbird63 19 years ago

The only movie I know of where someone is killed by an eggplant.

"DAGMAR I THOUGHT YOU HATED EGGPLANT!"

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[–] puggimer 20 years ago

I saw this in theatres in high school, and never forgot it. The breather, the body count (13 1/2 murders!) the paperclips. I thought it was hilarious. Unfortunately I keep catching the end on cable lately - which is the weakest part.

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[–] ninac4116 20 years ago

I think this movie is much better than any of the Scary Movies and its an original. Brilliant!

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[–] melanie_powers2002 20 years ago

My friend and I caught this on late-night cable one night when we were in search of "cheesy b-rated movies" and we found it! This is one of the BEST and FUNNIEST movies with some of the best one-liners to ever come along! I immediately went home and bid on a copy of it on eBAY, (sadly only on VHS not DVD which is what I really wanted!) and I"m still waiting for it to come so I can watch it over and over. Not a horror flick but another "cheesy b" for those into that like me that was really good also is THE NIGHT BEFORE with Keanu Reeves. Great movies both!!!!

"ooh, a piece of chicken (bends down to pick up drumstick and missing chunk off the floor)it's broken....(proceeds to rubberband the chunk back to the drumstick and puts it in the fridge)

CLASSIC!!!!

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[–] jxchamb 20 years ago

"Funerals make me hot."

This is the funniest movie, ever. I saw years and years ago and it just sticks with you. I've got it on my tivo luckily, it was HBO, I think, and it never gets old. Until I saw this movie I never understood the importance of horse-head bookends.

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[–] obiemookie 20 years ago

I saw this film when it first came out on Video...back in 82 I believe. I was 10, and this was, by far, the funniest thing I had ever seen. SOOO many brilliant parts. And you have to watch it a few times to get all the jokes...because lots of stuff happens in the background that you'll miss on first viewing.

Very funny movie. 9/10

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[–] BuscemiRULES8 20 years ago

Oh my God, you guys are bringing back memories of my childhood (which wasnt too long ago, I'm 18) I think I first saw this movie when i was like 6 or 7 and my brother and I were looking through my families tapes. MY dad had taped this off TV long before either of us were born and we both watched it and LOVED it, though looking back I now realise how inapropriate it was for a 6 year old. I still love it and it sucks because a few years ago I lent it to a friend to see and since then she moved away, and I never got the tape from her, which sucks cause now I really wanna watch it again. Well I guess I'm off to Ebay!

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[–] TequilaMockingbird63 20 years ago

WOW i thought i was the only one! I saw this movie in 81' or 82' when i was 18 AT A DRIVE IN MOVIE (of all obsolete places) in a suburb of Chicago!! Myself and about 10 of my friends loved it so much we later got a VHS copy and watched it religiously for several years. Why this film was not more successful i dont know and it's so odd that nearly all of its Actors never went on to be in any other films?. FUNNY * FUNNY * FUNNY! This parody on Teen horror films should become a cult classic. I'd love to see it a again. My sister and i STILL quote lines some 24 odd years later!
"Do you think I look good in Green?"
"Dagmar I thought you hated egg plant?"
"mmm chicken. oooh broken"
"Nurse Krud and Miss Van Dyke....Whats in a name E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G".

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[–] excalibur212 20 years ago

PARAMOUNT HOME VIDEO IS **THE WORST DVD PRODUCTION COMPANY THERE IS!!!*** They release plain-jane DVD's with NO EXTRAS, and let CULT CLASSICS like this (another example is the "Police Squad!" series) sit on the shelf while releasing garbage other titles that sit in clearance racks. (Hey, for all of you who want to find it on DVD...think eBay.)

HEY PARAMOUNT, SNUBS TO YOU FOR NOT RELEASING IT!! I'm glad other people are making the profits.

Who's the CEO of Paramount Home Video, Elmer Fudd?

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[–] Kevin-Moyers 19 years ago

Wow, I thought this movie had only enjoyed a limited theatrical release. It was filmed (if I remember correctly) in a neighboring town, Port Arthur, Texas at Thomas Jefferson High School.

I also saw the movie in the theater, our drama club had a field trip to go see it, my high school drama teacher is in the movie (Kay Ogden playing Ms. Leclair). I remember enjoying the movie, but the general consensus with the rest of the club was that the movie sucked.

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[–] siddfinch 20 years ago

Many of you here say this movie "stays with you"...

I saw it in the theater whenever it was shown ( and never after ) and its totally true!!! After 20 or 25 years I still occasionally think of scenes and lines. I never thought someone else would too, or even remember this obscure film.

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