Body Bags
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Welcome To Horror’s anthology month continues with 1993’s “Body Bags” from horror masters John Carpenter and Tobe Hooper. A film in which Sheena Easton’s baby catches the morning train, gets all hairy, and comes home again; David Kessler is remarkably recovered from his Holiday in England, and still on the pull; host John Carpenter looks distinctly healthier than usual; and Twiggy gazes in terror into Luke Skywalker’s brown eye. A mixed (body) bag of a film, with more cameos than an antique fair playing “Word Up” on a loop - watch (or re-watch) to avoid spoilers, and join us.
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Lee Good evening and welcome to Horror. I'm Lee.
Chris I'm Chris.
Adam Hi, I'm Adam.
Lee And I've got melon energy drink.
Lee We, we are recording now. I've got melon, someone else.
Adam Gold.
Lee Because we're in the same room.
Adam We are, yeah, well, yeah, we are.
Lee That's why we need energy drink. We have peek behind the curtain, we're meeting once a month now and recording two episodes back to back, which is why one will be high energy and the second one will be like, I've been doing this for an hour and a half now, I'm shattered.
Chris Oh, yeah, but when we start talking about this one, I'm sure the energy will appear.
Lee It might do.
Chris It'll go, it'll go stick, it'll go stick,.
Lee So we are covering 1993's John Carpenter's Body Bags.
Lee an interesting anthology film.
Lee Adam, you picked this one, is there a reason you?
Adam I, I wanted to get because as you've, you've, you've now revealed the magic, so the podcast circle will come and get you now because you've revealed how how we're doing this.
Adam But also, it was kind of like, right, if we're going to do anthologies, probably need to find something that's not, we couldn't do two Amicus because you'd be too busy going, was, was that one in this one, or was it in that one?
Adam So, I thought it's different enough, but also it's mainly to just prove to Adam and Bobby from Not For Everyone podcast, listen to the Not For Everyone podcast, because it's great.
Lee It is great.
Adam But also prove to them, we remember Body Bags, don't you start dissin' Body Bags?
Lee Well, they might.
Adam Well, they didn't diss Body Bags, but they were just like, they mentioned it as like a video cover and said, yeah, but that's a film that no one remembers.
Lee One of us may agree with that, but before we get to that.
Lee So Chris, with this being your first viewing of Body Bags, what did you make of it?
Chris Well, as I mentioned on the previous episode, I was surprised to see Denis, who I now know, and realized that we must have talked about previously, because he's in some of the other films we've watched, and I obviously forgot all about that.
Chris And in this one, I did not expect to see Mr. Luke Skywalker himself, Mark Hamill.
Chris In what I would suggest is the most oddest viewing of him that I have ever expected.
Chris Because, yeah, to see him in a sort of surreal situation where he's almost kind of necrophiliac.
Chris Because he's, yeah, oh no, because he's he's viewing his wife as kind of dead.
Lee You saying mostly stabbed.
Lee I've got written here, not to jump into it too quickly, but I've got written here in capitals, too much scene.
Chris Yeah, well, there was a lot of scenes, exactly.
Lee Too much scene.
Lee On the big, on the big screen, watching it, the scene where he's having sex, like it's all on display, his junk is right there, like.
Chris I'm going to say, I'm going to say that can't be him though, that must be a body double.
Chris Because you don't see his face in that, I noticed.
Lee No, but you do definitely see everything else like.
Chris You see you see his little Luke.
