It is rare for the director to act in person;
If he is still a well-known director, it will be even more commendable.
And our "cult old urchin" John Carpenter is really possessed by the spirit of drama.
I don't hesitate to play a dead corpse to tell this story in person-
Body bags
Body Bags
At the beginning of the film, Carpenter, who looks eerie without makeup, talks eloquently in the morgue.
They said that they were looking for a few bodies that had died unnaturally so that they could tell "interesting" stories about their lives.
The scraps of limbs that need to be preserved in "body bags" are undoubtedly a perfect fit for Carpenter's needs.
As his old man tinkered with the corpse, three cheerful horror sketches came out:
gas station
Late at night, in the middle of nowhere, in a gas station in the middle of nowhere.
The TV set looped the headlines as another young girl died at the hands of a serial killer this morning.
The store manager, as a man, didn't pay much attention to it.
After explaining a few words to the new part-time girl, she hummed a little song and went home from work.
Anne is a college student living nearby, and the news of the serial killings inevitably scares her.
As soon as the manager left, she locked the door and prayed that no customers would come to the place.
It's a pity that the sky doesn't fulfill people's wishes, and in the inky night, the small gas station is not destined to be very peaceful.
The first customer was a strange old man with a flirtatious speech, so "fortunately" he was just.
PS: Wes Craven, the director of "Ghost Street" and "Scream", made a cameo in friendship~
The second customer is a handsome uncle with a lot of demeanor, and he even took the initiative to start a family routine with her when he saw that the girl looked nervous.
PS: Sam Raimi, the director of "Evil Play" and "Spider-Man", made a cameo appearance~
However, when Uncle Shuai left, he left his credit card in the store intentionally or unintentionally.
The third person who came to visit was a homeless man who was quite familiar with the gas station.
He went straight to Anne and asked for the key, wanting to go to the restroom outside the store to make it easier.
As soon as the homeless man left, there was another boss with a hot girl.
In addition to refueling, he also wanted to borrow the toilet for use.
Seeing this, Anne hurriedly asked the soil boss to ask him to check the situation in the bathroom and bring the key back by the way.
After a while, the landlord returned conveniently, saying that the homeless man had fallen asleep in the bathroom, and that he had forgotten the key on the door.
Anne, who had no choice but to muster up the courage to go herself.
Unexpectedly, there was no homeless figure in the bathroom, but there was a terrifying and weird painting on the door panel out of thin air.
Anne was so frightened that she ran back to the store, but she accidentally caught a glimpse of the crane in the garage moving on its own.
She couldn't bear to take a wrench and a flashlight to check, and she was almost not sent away on the spot-
In the cab of the car, the bloody corpse of the homeless man was clearly lying......
Thinking of the phone number left by the store manager, she quickly dialed for help.
The phone rang in horror from the warehouse not far away......
That's right, the fake store manager who docked with Anne before was the serial killer himself.
In fact, if Anne had been more careful, she might have found that the real store manager had already died......
Anne, who is weak and weak, is the opponent of a serial killer;
At the moment of crisis, fortunately, the handsome uncle who turned back to find a credit card came to help;
This is called the serial killer to eat the fruit of himself, and he is crushed into a puddle of meat by the truck crane......
After telling the first story, Old Man Carpenter took out another bag of plasma, indicating that this was also a human corpse-
The deceased jumped from a tall building and was dragged by a train for 900 yards before becoming like this......
What is it that makes him so eager to die?
hair
The male protagonist Richard is middle-aged and bald, and his heart is quite distressed.
Although his young and beautiful girlfriend doesn't mind, he is getting more and more paranoid.
No matter how much his girlfriend comforts her, she thinks she is sarcastic and disgusted with herself.
If the road is narrow, it will naturally not end well.
The physical problems are tolerable, but the psychological problems are difficult to heal.
The girlfriend couldn't bear it and said that she would be separated from Richard for a while and calm down.
And this undoubtedly strengthened Richard's determination to change the status quo.
Through TV commercials, he found a high-end hair growth clinic.
The attending physician first described to him the principle of unclear hair growth;
Then he told him that the operation could change his entire life and whether he was sure he was ready.
With Richard saying yes in no uncertain terms, the operation soon began.
The next day, he took off the strap tremblingly, and miraculously got his hair.
The knot has been resolved, his girlfriend has returned smoothly, and the relationship between the two is even more "intense" than their first love......
However, the good times were short-lived, and Richard soon found that his hair began to grow uncontrollably.
Even the face and throat are covered with thick hair......
What's even more terrifying is that if they cut off their beards, they will turn into snake-like monsters, opening their mouths and roaring angrily at Richard.
In just one day, Richard almost became a "wild man", so he had to drag his tired body to the clinic and ask the attending doctor for an explanation.
Looking at Richard's appearance, the doctor smiled happily and generously told the truth.
In fact, "they" are hair-like alien creatures that rely on parasitic human brains to absorb nutrients after arriving on Earth.
The fear of baldness in humans makes them have a plan-
Use the hair growth clinic to control and enslave more humans.
At this moment, Richard has become an alien petri dish like a doctor and nurse.
Hence the tragic suicide that followed......
Carpenter happily stroked his long hair, took an eyeball out of the glass jar, and began the third story without stopping.
eye
"Jedi Master" Mark Hamill plays Matthews, who is a promising baseball player.
But in a car accident, he unfortunately lost his right eye.
When his career was about to be executed, an old military doctor with a German accent gave Matthews some hope -
Groundbreaking allogeneic eye transplantation.
The surgery went exceptionally well, and apart from the difference in pupil color, Matthews' new eyes were the same as the original.
But just as he recovered, he was preparing for the arrival of the newborn.
But there were many strange visions in front of him.
For example, the corpse of a blonde woman that "crawled" out of the dirt in the yard;
a bloodied female arm in a garbage disposer;
Or maybe a fierce woman pointed at his nose and yelled......
The constant nightmares also made Matthews's temperament change greatly, and a nameless anger against blonde women rose out of thin air in his heart.
Even his pregnant wife was almost hurt by it......
Matthews couldn't bear it anymore and angrily ran to the old military doctor to ask for an explanation.
Only then did the other party admit that the eyeball he transplanted actually came from a death row prisoner.
This person was abused by his alcoholic mother as a child, so when he grew up, he gradually became perverted, and killed seven women with blonde hair like his mother.
The bodies were disposed of in a garbage disposal and then buried in the yard......
In other words, Matthews, who is equipped with the "devil's eye", is now inevitably falling to the brink of hell.
In order to save himself, and more importantly, to protect his family, he had to endure the pain and taste the glare of sharp objects again......
At this point, two staff members suddenly came to the morgue, and Carpenter quickly lay down on the bed board when he saw this.
That's right, he's not a perverted night watchman at all, but a corpse who is unwilling to be lonely~
With the director himself being "disemboweled", this segmented film from the "body bag" has come to an end.
The first two stories of Carpenter, one is a psychological thriller and the other is addicted to cult science fiction, both of which are of a very professional level.
The third story was inspired by Hitchcock's miscarriage project, filmed by Toby Hopper, the director of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."
Although it doesn't seem new now, it was definitely a "scared" existence back then.
The success of this film's cooperation directly gave birth to the long-lived American drama "Master of Horror", which can be called a carnival in the "horror world".
Such an interesting ticket is definitely suitable for any horror movie brain-dead fan who reminisces about the past and sighs for the present!