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Student Bodies is a 1981 horror-comedy written and directed by Mickey Rose. (Michael Ritchie produced the movie, but later took his name off the picture and used the well-worn pseudonym Alan Smithee instead.) It is a satire of many popular horror films of the time (i.e. Prom Night, Halloween
, Friday the 13th
, etc.)

The movie uses the same type of humor seen in other movies, such as Airplane! and The Naked Gun. In one scene, for example, sign language is used. Every time somebody dies, an on-screen body count appears.
Sypnosis
Student Bodies is about a serial killer who stalks female students at a high school, while at the same time, voyeuring on them as they walk around the school's locker room. The killer's name is "The Breather", because the killer has trouble breathing; therefore, he breathes very hard all the time.

"The Breather" enjoys stalking victims over the telephone, and, much like Jason Voorhees
of the Friday the 13th movies, he hates seeing youngsters having sex. He usually stabs his victims.

It is initially suspected that the school's principal is the killer. While the principal has a killing instinct, that theory was later proven wrong, as he became "body number 12" when he slipped over some marbles and stabbed himself to death while trying to attack a student.

One of a group of movies directed towards teenaged audiences during the late 1970s and early 1980s, Student Bodies had little box office success. Other movies in this group included Porky's, Meatballs, Animal House and Revenge of the Nerds.
Cast

Kristen Ritter

Matthew Goldsby

Richard Brando as "The Breather"

Joe Flood

Joe Tlarowski

Mimi Wedell

Carl Jacobs

Peggy Cooper

Janice E. O'Malley

Kevin Marinis

Sarah Eckhardt

Brian Batytis

Cullen G. Chambers

Joan Browning Jacobs

Angela Bressler and

The Stick as "Malvert the Janitor"

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