{"id":36223,"date":"2024-07-18T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36223"},"modified":"2024-07-14T18:34:35","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T22:34:35","slug":"john-carpenter-presents-body-bags-1993-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36223","title":{"rendered":"John Carpenter Presents &#8220;Body Bags&#8221; (1993) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z071824zview_bodybags.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Body Bags (1993)\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Directors: <strong>John Carpenter, Tobe Hooper, Larry Sulkis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay:\u00a0 <strong>Billy Brown, Dan Angel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>John Carpenter, Tom Arnold, Tobe Hooper, Robert Carradine, Alex Datcher, Peter Jason, Molly Cheek, Wes Craven, Sam Raimi, David Naughton, George &#8216;Buck&#8217; Flower, David Warner, Sheena Easton, Greg Nicotero, Debbie Harry, Mark Hamill, Twiggy, John Agar, Roger Corman, Charles Napier <\/strong>and <strong>Stacy Keach.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: None.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A scary coroner (Carpenter) introduces three tales&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Gas Station. <\/em>\u00a0A serial killer is operating in an area where a young woman has her first night working at a remote gas station.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Hair.<\/em>\u00a0 Richard Coberts (Keach) is a vain man concerned about losing his hair.\u00a0 Nothing he&#8217;s tried so far as worked.\u00a0 Then he learns about a new procedure guaranteed to grow hair.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Eye.<\/em>\u00a0 A pro baseball player (Hamill) on the verge of being called up to the big league gets into an accident that destroys one of his eyes.\u00a0 Thinking he has nothing to lose, he agrees to an experimental eye transplant&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i>Body Bags\u00a0<\/i>was developed as a series for Showtime.\u00a0 It would be their answer to HBO&#8217;s <em>Tales from the Crypt<\/em>.\u00a0 Ultimately Showtime decided to not go forward with the project.<\/p>\n<p><em>Body Bags<\/em> is full of famous people showing up in cameos.<\/p>\n<p>I would rank the three segments: <em>The Gas Station<\/em> (3 of 5), <em>Hair<\/em> (2 of 5) and <em>Eye<\/em> (2 of 5).<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Body Bags (1993) <\/i><\/b>rates 2 of 5 stars.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z071824zview_bodybags2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Body Bags (1993)\u00a0 Directors: John Carpenter, Tobe Hooper, Larry Sulkis Screenplay:\u00a0 Billy Brown, Dan Angel Stars: John Carpenter, Tom Arnold,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,53,63,54,65,50,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-horror","category-humor","category-movies","category-trivia","category-tv","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36224,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36223\/revisions\/36224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}