History Film / BodyBags1993

* BigDamnHeroes: In "The Gas Station", [[spoiler:the customer Pete returns at the end to help Anne beat the killer when he remembered he left his credit card behind. Despite him being quickly overtaken by the maniac, its this intervention that allows Anne to set her death trap for him.]]
* BodyHorror: In "Hair", Richard gets a mystery treatment that results in him growing shoulder-length hair within a day's time. The hair then just keeps growing and eventually covers his face as well while wormlike parasites burrow underneath his skin. [[spoiler:It turns out to be part of an alien invasion plot to find new human hosts and brainfood to dine on.]]

* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:In "The Gas Station", one of the early customers is one of the few people who's nice to the female clerk but forgets his credit card even though she runs after him. After he remembers this he returns at the end to save her from an attack by a psychopathic killer.]]

* DeadPersonImpersonation: In "The Gas Station", [[spoiler:Anne's co-worker Bill isn't the ''real'' Bill, as she finds out. He's actually the escaped serial killer mentioned on the radio earlier on and has been impersonating the original gas station owner. ]]

* FreudianExcuse: Brent in "The Eye" finds out through the dead serial killer John Randall's visions that he was horribly abused by his mother, such as putting out cigarettes in his face when he was still in his crib.

-->'''The Coroner:''' These ought to be recycled.

* MagicalEye: In the "Eye", Brent, a star baseball player, gets a new right eye after he loses his original one in a car accident. He subsequently becomes plagued by nightmarish visions of murder and rape and finds out that it belonged to an executed serial killer named John Randall, whose personality is starting to overtake his own.

* PungeonMaster: John Carpenter's character the Coroner makes several death-related puns every other minute.

* SerialKiller: There’s one on the loose in “Gas Station”.

-->'''Dr. Lock:''' [[spoiler:You earthlings and your vanity! You are so predictably easy.]]

--->'''Coroner''': Uh oh! Better get moving! (removes his scrubs, revealing [[spoiler: a bloody wound on his side]])

* SuddenDownerEnding: Granted a potentially awful ending should not be much of a surprise in a horror story but [[spoiler: when it occurs to the most light-hearted, humorous and campy of the stories by far it stands out. To stretch this point even further it even has a comedic tune playing over its entirety and there isn't any build-up or threat in the ambience very much unlike the other too. And yet is the one with the worst of the three endings where TheBadGuyWins with the previously happy theme echoing over the sight of the main character losing the last trace of control over his own body and brain and offering an uncalled amount of SoundtrackDissonance]].

* BigDamnHeroes: In "The Gas Station", [[spoiler:the customer Pete returns at the end to help Anne beat the killer when he remembered he left his credit card behind.]]

* WhamLine: From "Hair", the twist becomes clear with this line:

* AndIMustScream: Eventhough Richard was in no position to, [[spoiler: due to wormlike parasites eating his brain, the zoom in shot of his face shows he's doing so on the inside.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Anne accidentally breaking Bill's "Best Employee of the Month" picture in "Gas Station". [[spoiler: Indeed, by the end of the segment his image of the best employee is going to be tarnished a bit...]]

''Body Bags'' is a 1993 horror [[AnthologyFilm anthology film]] made for Showtime and directed by Creator/JohnCarpenter and Creator/TobeHooper. It stars Carpenter as [[HorrorHost the Coroner]], who brings the viewers three tales centered around the cadavers in his care.

* SpaceWhaleAesop: From the segment "Hair": Having too much vanity and being insecure about your physical appearance to the point of trying out mystery experiments will result in [[spoiler:becoming a host for parastic wormlike aliens who will snack on your brain.]]

* PrehensileHair: "Hair" features Stacy Keach's character receiving a hair transplant operation, which turns out to be [[spoiler:an alien parasite that bites him after he plucks a hair from his ''tooth!'' The aliens eat up his brains.]]

* TheCreepyUndertaker: John Carpenter portrays the Coroner, a wacky character who has a twisted fascination with the corpses he gets every night and hosts the framing segments. Among other things he holds conversations with the dead people around him and even [[ILoveTheDead plays around with some of them]]. [[spoiler:Subverted at the end when he turns out to be another corpse come to life when the real coroners appear.]]

''Body Bags'' is a 1993 horror {{anthology film}} made for Showtime and directed by Creator/JohnCarpenter and Creator/TobeHooper. It stars Carpenter as the Coroner, who brings the viewers three tales centered around the cadavers in his care.

"The Gas Station" is about Anne, a new hire at an isolated filling station near Haddonfield, IL, where a serial killer has escaped from the insane asylum and is prowling about(and it ain't [[{{Franchise/Halloween}} Michael]]). Anne must outwit the lunatic to make it to the end of the night shift.

* RealitySubtext: Mark Hamill, playing a star who sustains a terrible injury in a car wreck.

* AutopsySnackTime: The Coroner is introduced cutting a slab of meat with an electrical saw and preparing to eat it. [[spoiler:The real coroners at the end also get make sure to get some coffee before starting their autopsy of the fake coroner, who's actually a zombie.]]

* ImplacableMan: The killer in "The Gas Station" suffers a lot of abuse by the heroine, but keeps getting up each time to pursue her once again until [[spoiler:he finally gets crashed underneath a car.]]

* DeadPersonImpersonation: In "The Gas Station", [[spoiler:Anne's co-worker Bill isn't the ''real'' Bill, as she finds out.]]

* IDrankWhat: The Coroner down a few glasses of the lethal chemical formaldehyde to set the mood.

* ImplacableMan: The killer in "The Gas Station" suffers a lot of abuse by the heroine, but keeps getting up each time to pursue her once again until [[spoiler:he gets crashed underneath a car.]]

* RedHerring: [[spoiler:Every customer at the gas station]] in the first segment is implied to have nepharious designs on the heroine, but they all turn out to be unrelated to the real killer.

'''''Body Bags''''' is a 1993 horror anthology film made for Showtime and directed by Creator/JohnCarpenter and Creator/TobeHooper. It stars Carpenter as the Coroner, who brings the viewers three tales centered around the cadavers in his care.

* BodyHorror: "Hair".

* DropTheHammer
* EyeScream: With a segment called "Eye", what would you expect?

* MacheteMayhem
* MismatchedEyes: Brent's, after he gets the new one.

* PuppeteerParasite: [[spoiler:The second segment's eponymous "hair".]]

* RedHerring: [[spoiler:Every customer at the gas station]] in the first segment.
* ShearMenace

* PuppeteerParasites: [[spoiler:The second segment's eponymous "hair".]]