Predrag A story collection created by John Carpenter and Toby Hooper, which was made for cable by Showtime in the mid 90's, as often happens with J.C., I was impressed. It has some weird moments and various cameos by several horror directors, which was a very nice touch. It looks like ripoff from The Tales from the Crypt but believe me it is not... Whole movie is narrated through the host himself as a dead man in the morgue, who is alive and talking about dead bodies that just came to the morgue and their stories how they died. First story is about a serial killer wanted by police, who kill ladies near gas stations; second story is about an insecure bald guy who wants to have long hair and his stubborn view on his problem was really funny and gross in some ways and finally the third and the last story was about a baseball player who in his prime career loose his eye and must continue his life without it but on his luck he meets a doctor that wants to do a transplantation of a new eye as an experiment to him. And when he gets the new eye all his world starts to fall apart..It is just pure fun and horror here if you like cheese horror of the 90's and the great John Carpenter... Wes Craven cameo, David Naughton, Sheena Easton and so many more.....this was absolutely awesome. For a fans of John Carpenter and Toby Hooper horror stories like Creepshow and etc. I truly recommend it!Overall rating: 8 out of 10.

Leofwine_draca A three-story anthology which is successful due to the amount of talent involved. BODY BAGS consists of three strange little tales, two of them very gory indeed, the third an amusing black comedy. None other than John Carpenter hosts the anthology, acting as a crazed morgue attendant who enjoys showing us all the gore and gristle that he can find in the morgue. Cue lots of shots of mangled bodies and various entrails slopping about all over the place.Thankfully the film is done with a tongue in cheek so things don't get too hard to stomach. Carpenter's portrayal brings to mind the Crypt Keeper and his macabre gags, and the film is very close to the spirit of the TALES FROM THE CRYPT television series - except with more talent and more gore. And as was the case with INNOCENT BLOOD, half the fun comes from spotting all the familiar faces popping up in cameo roles. For example, Tom Arnold and Tobe Hooper (who also directs the final episode) show up as a couple of ghoulish morgue workers! The first story, The Gas Station, is quite a clichéd one and runs like a mini-slasher film, which is no surprise as the director is John Carpenter himself. He throws in a few familiar tricks from HALLOWEEN plus lots of interesting camera-work to make this one interesting and creepy. Alex Datcher is good as the segment's lead, doing all the victim stuff (screaming, running, outwitting the killer, etc.), and Robert Carradine has a great role as her strange-acting colleague. Also putting in cameos are Wes Craven as a pasty-faced customer, David Naughton as a heroic ally, George 'Buck' Flower as a drunk and Sam Raimi (as a corpse!). This segment gets very grisly at the end! Hair isn't a gory tale, but the story is a lot better. Stacy Keach takes the lead as the man losing his hair, while the reliable David Warner puts in a typical performance as the head of the firm which treats him. Of course, Keach's solution starts off brilliantly, and then goes hideously wrong. A simple tale, well told and quite funny with some excellent effects work to recommend it. Here, special effects man Greg Nicotero appears as a dog owner, and Debbie Harry's in here too.The final episode, Eye, is by far the most chilling and disturbing. Some scenes are also difficult to watch, especially those involving Hamill hallucinating that his wife is a corpse as he makes love to her. Yes, that is Mark Hamill as the lead, and he puts in a very good performance too - it's a shame he's been relegated to doing voiceovers in recent years, but at least he's kept working. The organ transplant tale is pretty clichéd and predictable, but executed (no pun intended) well, with good acting from the cast. The eye operations which take place are very gruesome and sometimes sickening to watch, so beware. It's actually quite a tragic tale too. The finale is predictable but fairly exciting. Here, veteran actor John Agar and director Roger Corman play a pair of doctors.So, in the end, BODY BAGS is a pretty average example of a recent anthology, it keeps you watching but doesn't really frighten, just disgusts. As with most American horror films of the '90s, the emphasis is on the special effects and gore instead of the story. If gore's what you're after, though, then you've come to the right place. Otherwise, this is pretty much routine.

mattressman_pdl Directors John Carpenter and Tobe Hooper bring you a made for cable horror anthology known as...BODY BAGS.Hosted by an amusing John Carpenter as a cryptkeeper like host. He's a lively corpse himself and delights in the torment of the other bodies in the morgue. So he's going to tell you about them...(well three of them, anyway).Story One finds a young college student being stalked in a desolate gas station by a menacing killer. Watch for Carpenter regulars Buck Flower, Peter Jason, and Robert Carradine as well as cameos from Sam Raimi and Wes Craven. Not a very good story but much better than the other two that follow Story Two finds a balding bachelor (the always watchable Stacy Keach) desperate for a cure to his thinning scalp. He finds one, thanks to an eccentric doctor played by David Warner. The cure works a little too well...This one is a little corny but fun.Story Three is directed by 'guest' Tobe Hooper and is unfortunately the weakest story. Professional baseball player Mark Hamill is distraught after losing his eye in a car accident. That is, until another creepy doctor offers him a transplant...from an executed serial killer. Nothing bad could possibly happen, right? Overall, the films wraparound segment proves to be more entertaining than the segments themselves as it feels like an old EC comic but the film isn't without it's positive points. The first story has decent suspense and all of them have their tongue planted firmly in cheek.Seek out this one out!

Master Cultist Darkly comic anthology from John Carpenter.This is three short stories, interlinked by a scene in a mortuary, where the mortician is actually played by Carpenter himself. Other than that it is notable for a string of cameo appearances from people in the horror world including Tobe Hooper, Wes Craven and the mighty Sam Raimi.And, my God, it's actually very good.First up we have the slasher story, parodying Carpenter's own Halloween. Next is a ball burstingly funny tale about a guy obsessed about his recent hair loss, and finally Mark 'Skywalker' Hamill plays a baseball player given a new implanted eye after a car accident.It's all played for black laughs, and is very successful.Highly enjoyable.