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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LeeGood evening and welcome to Horror. I'm Lee.
ChrisI'm Chris.
AdamHi, I'm Adam.
LeeAnd I've got melon energy drink.
LeeWe, we are recording now. I've got melon, someone else.
AdamGold.
LeeBecause we're in the same room.
AdamWe are, yeah, well, yeah, we are.
LeeThat'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.
ChrisOh, yeah, but when we start talking about this one, I'm sure the energy will appear.
LeeIt might do.
ChrisIt'll go, it'll go stick, it'll go stick,.
LeeSo we are covering 1993's John Carpenter's Body Bags.
Leean interesting anthology film.
LeeAdam, you picked this one, is there a reason you?
AdamI, 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.
AdamBut 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?
AdamSo, 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.
LeeIt is great.
AdamBut also prove to them, we remember Body Bags, don't you start dissin' Body Bags?
LeeWell, they might.
AdamWell, 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.
LeeOne of us may agree with that, but before we get to that.
LeeSo Chris, with this being your first viewing of Body Bags, what did you make of it?
ChrisWell, 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.
ChrisAnd in this one, I did not expect to see Mr. Luke Skywalker himself, Mark Hamill.
ChrisIn what I would suggest is the most oddest viewing of him that I have ever expected.
ChrisBecause, yeah, to see him in a sort of surreal situation where he's almost kind of necrophiliac.
ChrisBecause he's, yeah, oh no, because he's he's viewing his wife as kind of dead.
LeeYou saying mostly stabbed.
LeeI've got written here, not to jump into it too quickly, but I've got written here in capitals, too much scene.
ChrisYeah, well, there was a lot of scenes, exactly.
LeeToo much scene.
LeeOn 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.
ChrisI'm going to say, I'm going to say that can't be him though, that must be a body double.
ChrisBecause you don't see his face in that, I noticed.
LeeNo, but you do definitely see everything else like.
ChrisYou see you see his little Luke.
