BODY BAGS

Three episodes under the banner of horror: in the first (directed by Carpenter), a girl in her first job at a night service station is pursued by a ruthless serial killer; the second (still by Carpenter) tells the story of a forty-year-old man suffering from baldness who decides to undergo a miraculous treatment. He achieves the desired result along with unwanted side effects; in the third episode (directed by Hooper), an ex-baseball player undergoes an eye transplant and begins to see strange things. Reading the names of the two directors, Hooper and Carpenter, one would expect at least an excellent film, but the movie does not deviate, either from a narrative point of view or from that of originality, from the standards of mediocrity to which we have become accustomed by episode films. Although, to tell the truth, the second episode, directed with irony and sarcasm by an inspired John Carpenter, would deserve a much higher rating. Suitable especially for those who love this type of episodic films. Curiosity: for many this "Body Bags" has become a cult film for the presence, as an actor, of Carpenter himself who plays the part of the zombie that, in full "Zio Tibia" style, introduces the three episodes.