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Blood * Violent * No Strong Language * Brief Nudity *</B></div> <div> <B>* No Sexual Situations * Gory *</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>1993/Color/Min./Republic Pictures Home Video & 187 Corp./Rated R</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Directors........John Carpenter* "The Gas Station" & "Hair" (Halloween)</B></div> <div> <B>                 Tobe Hooper* "The Eye" (The Funhouse, Poltergeist)</B></div> <div> <B>Screenplay.......Billy Brown & Dan Angel</B></div> <div> <B>Music................John Carpenter* & Jim Lang</B></div> <div> <B>Producer..........Sandy King</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producers.....John Carpenter, Sandy King, & Dan Angel</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Dramatis Personae</B></div> <div> <B>"The Morgue"</B></div> <div> <B>Coroner.........John Carpenter (Dir: The Fog, Halloween, The Thing)</B></div> <div> <B>Man # 1.........Tom Arnold (Rosanne-TV, A Nightmare on Elm Street )</B></div> <div> <B>Man # 2.........Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Poltergeist)</B></div> <div> <B></B><B><U>"The Gas Station"</U></B></div> <div> <B>Bill.......................Robert Carradine(Blackout, Orca, Revenge of the Nerds)</B></div> <div> <B>Anne....................Alex Datcher</B></div> <div> <B>Gent.....................Peter Jason (Hyper Sapian, Party Camp, Trick or Treat)</B></div> <div> <B>Divorcee..............Molly Cheek (Stepmonster)</B></div> <div> <B>Pasty Faced Man.Wes Craven (Dir: Nightmare on Elm St., Chiller,Shocker)</B></div> <div> <B>Dead Bill..............Sam Raimi (Dir: Army of Darkness, Darkman, Evil Dead)</B></div> <div> <B>Pete.....................David Naughton (American Werewolf in London, Kidnapped)</B></div> <div> <B>Stranger...............Buck Flower (Across the Great Divide, Inside Out 2)</B></div> <div> <B>Peggy...................Lucy Boyrer</B></div> <div> <B>TV Anchorman.....Roger Rooks</B></div> <div> <B></B><B><U>"Hair"</U></B></div> <div> <B>Richard.........Stacy Keach (The Long Riders, Nice Dreams, Watched!)</B></div> <div> <B>Dr. Lock........David Warner (Star Trek VI, Unnameable II, Waxworks)</B></div> <div> <B>Megan...........Sheena Easton (Pop Musik: Morning Train)</B></div> <div> <B>Dennis..........Dan Blom</B></div> <div> <B>Man.............Atila</B></div> <div> <B>Woman...........Kim Alexis (Sports Illustrated)</B></div> <div> <B>Man with Dog....Greg Nicotero (EFX-man:)</B></div> <div> <B>The Nurse.......Deborah Harry (Tales From the Darkside, Videodrome)</B></div> <div> <B>"Eye"</B></div> <div> <B>Brent...........Mark Hamill (Eric, Return of the Jedi, Star Wars)</B></div> <div> <B>Cathy...........Twiggy (Club Paradise, The Doctor and the Devils)</B></div> <div> <B>Dr. Lang........John Agar (Miracle Mile, The Perfect Bride, Tarantula)</B></div> <div> <B>Dr. Bregman.....Roger Corman (Dir: Little Shop of Horrors, The Terror)</B></div> <div> <B>Manager.........Charles Napier (Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia)</B></div> <div> <B>Player..........Eddie Velez (Doin' Time, Rooftops, The Women's Club)</B></div> <div> <B>Librarian.......Betty Muramoto</B></div> <div> <B>Nurse...........Bebe Drake-Massey</B></div> <div> <B>Minister........Sean McClory (The Dead,Island in the Sky,My Chauffeur)</B></div> <div> <B>Man.............Robert L. Bush</B></div> <div> <B>Technician......Gregory H. Alpert</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: In the tradition of Steven King's fine "Creepshow" and Tales from the Dark Side: The Movie, John Carpenter's "Body Bags" continues the parade of quality that has made these compendia and frame novellas video store favorites for years. "Hair" is an eloquent allegory for the exploitation of the public by every media-created necessity sold by money hungry monsters without regard to the effect on people's brains and finances. Stacy Keach is wonderful as the obsessed bald guy. "The Eye" is the classic possession of a transplanted body part given new life by the raging Mark Hammill, and "Gas Station" is a timeless tale of panic and isolation in which anyone could be the killer. Horror movie buffs will delight in the cameos, particularly sixth stooge and Evil Dead director Sam Raimi as slain gas station employee of the month. John Carpenter is fun as the formaldehyde-drinking coroner who is bored of death by natural causes and wants body bags. The great people of modern horror are standing around in the crowd some place. Effects-man Greg Nicotero walking a dog, See credits above for more. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summaries</U></B><B>: In "The Gas Station", unlucky Haddonfield (Halloween) is the scene of yet another gruesome murder. This time a young woman in a garbage bin. Ann begins her first night of work at the all night self-service gas station and plans to be picked up in the morning by her girlfriend. Evening shift Bill feels guilty leaving her alone on her first night with a killer on the loose. After an Impala makes a pass without stopping, a strange man purchases cigarettes and offers her some bourbon. She decides to stay in her booth. Pete fills up his Porsche and invites Ann to the Oak Lounge and forgets his credit card. When Ann runs after him with the card she locks herself out and right away a homeless man requests the key to the restroom. She manages to enter the garage and find a spare key. Ann requests that the next customer, a big Texan in a Cadillac check on the guy in the rest room, who's asleep and the Texan leaves the key in the bathroom door. When Ann goes to get it she finds markers and a mural on the wall depicting murder. As she heads back to her booth she notices activity in the garage and finds the man with his throat slashed in the truck. When she calls Bill for help, he comes promptly-with a sledgehammer. In her flight she discovers a mini chambre des morts (Evil Dead director Sam Raimi as another attendant named Bill) while the killer shows a Michael Myers-like resilience. Pete returns for his credit card and creates a brief diversion until Ann faces the slasher. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>In "Hair" a middle-aged Richard is frustrated by hair loss although his girlfriend thinks he looks distinguished. He tries a toupee. Megan's hairdresser Dennis suggests he needs only shape it. Richard sees full heads of hair everywhere and obsessively buys every remedy in the market. The gadgets, follicle stimulating music, and ointments only serve to make him look ridiculous. The advertisements for the Rothwell procedure a hair center finally draw him in. Through computer enhancement, he chooses the Stallion look, shoulder length straight hair brought about by a protein based ointment. Dr. Locke He need only get out of bed and remove the bandages. After two days his hair is waste length. When he has it styled, clippings on the floor creep away like inchworms and the same day Richard falls ill. Looking in the mirror he sees a piece of moving hair at the back of his throat and later hair begins growing out of his face. By evening he is reduced to a sickly werewolf, covered with open sores and fur growing out of his mouth. When he cuts it one of the little snake-like worms bites him. As he drives to the haircenter, hair worms are trafficking between the many open sores on his head. The doctor and his assistant are thrilled with Richard's progress as he is part of the food supply for a race of aliens. Paranoid Line: "Oh sure, just walk out on the bald guy!"</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>In "The Eye" a minor league baseball player Brent Mathews for the bisons is poised to jump the big leagues and his wife Cathy is pregnant when skidding to avoid a Deer in his Chevelle he hits a lightpole, gouging out his eye with a piece of glass. Dr. Bregman informs Brent he's lost his right eye. Dr. Lang proposes an entire eye transplant and after a brief discussion, Cathy agrees. The operation is a success except for a new tendency to glare suddenly and angrily. After a few days at home Brent has a vision of a naked women coming out of a shallow grave in the yard accompanied by one of those terrible headaches he's been having. When he dumps his breakfast into the trash disposal, he sees a dirty arm shredded instead of eggs. Digging in the yard he thinks he digs up a woman's body, but when he checks it isn't there. While setting up the crib he sees a trampy woman yell at him and put out her cigarette on his face and while having sex with his wife he envisions the dirty woman and begins violent sex, finally biting her shoulder drawing blood. He has now taken to reading the bible passionately aloud and telling his wife to leave him alone. He confronts Dr. Lang "Where in the hell did this eye come from?" At the library Brent researches John Randall who was abused by his blonde alcoholic mother and stabbed to death and sexually molested young women. Randall referred to himself as the Devil. Brent can see only one solution.</B></div> <bR> <div>  <IMG SRC="http://service.bfast.com/bfast/serve?bfmid=2181&sourceid=39400659&categoryid=dvd_scifihor2" BORDER="0" WIDTH="1" HEIGHT="1" NOSAVE > <A HREF="http://service.bfast.com/bfast/click?bfmid=2181&sourceid=39400659&categoryid=dvd_scifihor2" TARGET="_top"><IMG SRC="http://a1204.g.akamai.net/f/1204/1181/24h/www.affiliate.net/affnet/images/vid_dvd468X60C.gif" BORDER="0" WIDTH="468" HEIGHT="60" ALT="Check Out Our Horror Collection"></A>  </div> </td> </tr></table></body>