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Student Bodies

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49 feature instances
10 referencing feature instances

Student Bodies	type	TVTItem
Student Bodies	label	Student Bodies
Student Bodies	page	StudentBodies
Student Bodies	comment	Before you Screamed, there were Student Bodies.A 1981 Horror Comedy film directed by Michael Ritchie (uncredited in that capacity, though he's sort of credited as a producer) and co-directed by early Woody Allen collaborator Mickey Rose (given a full director's credit), Student Bodies is a Parody of the many Slasher Movies of its era and includes much Lampshade Hanging of the various tropes and cliches of that genre, with the most noteworthy lampshade consisting of an onscreen body tally.The plot revolves around a mysterious murderer whose face is never seen, known only as "The Breather", who stalks and kills sexually active teenagers. The resident Final Girl, Toby Badger, is something of a Straw Prude herself and as such becomes the prime suspect.In spite of having done a lousy job at the box office in its original release, the film has achieved cult status, largely in part because of its comic nature and rapid-fire subversions.
Student Bodies	fetched	2023-07-31T21:29:02Z
Student Bodies	parsed	2023-07-31T21:29:02Z
Student Bodies	isPartOf	DBTropes
Student Bodies / int_137f2d7	type	Card-Carrying Villain
Student Bodies / int_137f2d7	comment	Card-Carrying Villain: The Breather at one point calls the faculty just to tell them this.
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Student Bodies / int_217a1adf	type	I Love the Dead
Student Bodies / int_217a1adf	comment	I Love the Dead: Invoked casually by one of the doomed boyfriends.
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Student Bodies / int_33ba37ca	type	Out with a Bang
Student Bodies / int_33ba37ca	comment	Out with a Bang
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Student Bodies / int_3b4f620a	type	No Fourth Wall
Student Bodies / int_3b4f620a	comment	No Fourth Wall / Medium Awareness: A staple of the movie.
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Student Bodies / int_3cb68bd3	type	Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon
Student Bodies / int_3cb68bd3	comment	Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon: Victims are killed with increasingly ridiculous weapons such as a bookend, a paperclip and a chalkboard eraser.
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Student Bodies / int_4230e681	type	Vader Breath
Student Bodies / int_4230e681	comment	Vader Breath: The Breather, natch.
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Student Bodies / int_48309ad4	type	Screaming Woman
Student Bodies / int_48309ad4	comment	Screaming Woman: Played with; see Comical Overreacting above.
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Student Bodies / int_506bf16a	type	Sex Signals Death
Student Bodies / int_506bf16a	comment	Sex Signals Death: Well duh, it is a slasher movie! The poster even lampshades it, with a button reading "sex kills" beside the corpse of a co-ed.
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Student Bodies / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Student Bodies / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: "You have reached the police. We are closed. Look out behind you!"
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Student Bodies / int_643659d4	type	Spit Take
Student Bodies / int_643659d4	comment	Spit Take: Everyone (understandably) when Malvert describes how he "helped make" the punch.
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Student Bodies / int_6a2ae11f	type	Improbable Weapon User
Student Bodies / int_6a2ae11f	comment	Improbable Weapon User: Taken to a ridiculous extent over the course of the film, but the very first murder really sets the tone: After breaking into a secretary desk which is loaded with potential weapons (revolver, rope, dagger, rat poison, etc.), the Breather settles for a paper clip.
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Student Bodies / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Student Bodies / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Toby Badger "badgers" her friends not to have sex. Alas, she lives in a slasher film.
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Student Bodies / int_701243b8	type	Comical Overreacting
Student Bodies / int_701243b8	comment	Comical Overreacting: The first victim was house sitting for a couple, and when they arrive home the wife has a screaming fit when she sees the girl has not cleaned the house and then plays The Stoic when she finds the girl's "mutilated" corpse. Lampshaded by being juxtaposed with the husband's (completely opposite) reactions to same.
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Student Bodies / int_767f84ea	type	Does Not Like Men
Student Bodies / int_767f84ea	comment	Does Not Like Men: Mrs. Dyke, due to being Ambiguously Gay.
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Student Bodies / int_77063cd7	type	Hooker with a Heart of Gold
Student Bodies / int_77063cd7	comment	Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Invoked when the Breather mentions school guidance counselor Mr. Sigmund was once arrested for corrupting the morals of a hooker.
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Student Bodies / int_7dad519f	type	Sex Is Evil
Student Bodies / int_7dad519f	comment	Sex Is Evil: Comically used as a Freudian Excuse.
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Student Bodies / int_7fe66c69	type	Hand of Death
Student Bodies / int_7fe66c69	comment	Hand of Death
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Student Bodies / int_81ae2774	type	Evil Matriarch
Student Bodies / int_81ae2774	comment	Evil Matriarch: Miss Mumsely, who apparently has every kind of relationship you could think of with her son the principal, was responsible for killing the boys after he killed the girls.
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Student Bodies / int_82accf22	type	Gainax Ending
Student Bodies / int_82accf22	comment	Gainax Ending
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Student Bodies / int_8e4a0f15	type	Dumb Blonde
Student Bodies / int_8e4a0f15	comment	Dumb Blonde: who has to be reminded that "The North won" the American Civil War.
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Student Bodies / int_96e5792c	type	Moral Guardians
Student Bodies / int_96e5792c	comment	Moral Guardians: In-Universe example with Final Girl Toby, who follows her friends around to remind them not to have sex. They do, and they die.
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Student Bodies / int_9788e2b1	type	Black Dude Dies First
Student Bodies / int_9788e2b1	comment	Black Dude Dies First: Averted, but only barely; the black couple are the second murder.
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Student Bodies / int_9dadfaee	type	Fetish
Student Bodies / int_9dadfaee	comment	Fetish: The shop teacher, Mr. Dumpkin, is obsessed with horse head bookends.
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Student Bodies / int_9e86e227	type	The End... Or Is It?
Student Bodies / int_9e86e227	comment	The End... Or Is It?
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Student Bodies / int_9ee065ab	type	Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday
Student Bodies / int_9ee065ab	comment	Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday: The Film starts, says "Halloween" on screen but nothing happens, Fade Out. Fade In again on "Friday The 13th" nothing happens on that day either, fade out again. Fade in again on "Jamie Lee Curtis' birthday" that's when all hell breaks loose!
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Student Bodies / int_a90fff3	type	Based on a True Story
Student Bodies / int_a90fff3	comment	Based on a True Story: played with in the Opening Scroll: "This film is based on a true story: last year, more than 30 horror films were made in America. None of them lost money."
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Student Bodies / int_afcafc5d	type	Drop Dead Gorgeous
Student Bodies / int_afcafc5d	comment	Drop Dead Gorgeous: The film poster◊ focuses on the corpse of an attractive blonde girl suggestively sprawled across some classroom desks.
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Student Bodies / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Student Bodies / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Hardly unexpected in a slasher film, but here it's repeatedly lampshaded; on-screen notes point out when a clue is missed or a door left unlocked. Hilariously, nobody says 'boo' to the girl who wanders around in a darkened kitchen mere seconds after receiving Harassing Phone Calls.
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Student Bodies / int_b58c51d8	type	My Beloved Smother
Student Bodies / int_b58c51d8	comment	My Beloved Smother: Miss Mumsley, who is apparently the principal's mother and follows him around at school while he's at work for no discernible reason other than she's his mom. She at one point tries browbreating Malvert into admitting he's the killer so suspicion will be taken off the principal, pointing out he doesn't have much to live for and no woman will ever want to have sex with him. She certainly doesn't.
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Student Bodies / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
Student Bodies / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: "I wouldn't hurt a fly!" Cue Body Count: 6 1/2
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Student Bodies / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Student Bodies / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: Delivered by the announcer to Avoid the Dreaded G Rating.
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Student Bodies / int_bc3cb7ff	type	Clear My Name
Student Bodies / int_bc3cb7ff	comment	Clear My Name
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Student Bodies / int_c09dbbbb	type	Weaksauce Weakness
Student Bodies / int_c09dbbbb	comment	Weaksauce Weakness: Male victims are dispatched by being put in garbage bags. While alive.
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Student Bodies / int_c16f48aa	type	Monster Misogyny
Student Bodies / int_c16f48aa	comment	Monster Misogyny: Although the body count is fairly evenly divided between the genders, the boys are all discreetly suffocated in plastic bags, while the girls receive more exotic (and visible) deaths.
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Student Bodies / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Student Bodies / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: One would-be victim manages to talk the Breather out of carving him up with a chainsaw... only to get bludgeoned with the carrying case.
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Student Bodies / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Student Bodies / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The All Just a Dream sequence at the end parodies The Wizard of Oz. The hand bursting from the grave parodies Carrie in which it itself is just a dream.
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Student Bodies / int_c8db76f6	type	And You Were There
Student Bodies / int_c8db76f6	comment	And You Were There: Naturally, part of the All Just a Dream mentioned above.
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Student Bodies / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
Student Bodies / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given / Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": The Breather. Meta example: The actor who plays Malvert the Janitor was known only as "The Stick".
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Student Bodies / int_cadf2d2a	type	Death of a Thousand Cuts
Student Bodies / int_cadf2d2a	comment	Death of a Thousand Cuts
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Student Bodies / int_cd427ce1	type	A Man Is Always Eager
Student Bodies / int_cd427ce1	comment	A Man Is Always Eager: Mercilessly parodied.
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Student Bodies / int_ce389717	type	Harassing Phone Call
Student Bodies / int_ce389717	comment	Harassing Phone Call / Evil Phone: Of the "heavy breathing" variety. Also notable that the breathing is heard virtually any time a phone receiver gets picked up.
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Student Bodies / int_d442f9d1	type	ToiletHumor
Student Bodies / int_d442f9d1	comment	Toilet Humor: A farting dog and a masturbating phone.
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Student Bodies / int_dec54a8c	type	Avoid the Dreaded G Rating
Student Bodies / int_dec54a8c	comment	Avoid the Dreaded G Rating: Parodied in one of the film's most famous scenes:
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Student Bodies / int_e34400ab	type	Ambiguously Gay
Student Bodies / int_e34400ab	comment	Ambiguously Gay: Ms. Van Dyke. During a health class she explained how the male reproductive organs were disgusting and unnecessary.
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Student Bodies / int_ea85d6ea	type	All Just a Dream
Student Bodies / int_ea85d6ea	comment	The All Just a Dream sequence at the end parodies The Wizard of Oz.
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Student Bodies / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
Student Bodies / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: Several shots linger on various brands. A full list of products that supported the film is included in the credits.
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Student Bodies / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Student Bodies / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: "X gets me hot!" The Breather being audible whenever anybody picks up a phone receiver, even if only for a brief moment.
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Student Bodies / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Student Bodies / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: During their first phone conversation, the Breather trolls the faculty by saying "Click" while on the phone. The second time he calls the faculty, Ms. Van Dyke pulls the same joke on him as payback. The first victim was house sitting for 75 cents an hour. At her funeral, the woman whose house she was watching meets the parents and gives them the money she earned, only now she's saying it was 65 cents an hour.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Student Bodies	hasFeature	Alan Smithee / int_2154daa1
Student Bodies	hasFeature	Anonymous Killer Narrator / int_2154daa1
Student Bodies	hasFeature	Attractiveness Discrimination / int_2154daa1
Student Bodies	hasFeature	Drop Dead Gorgeous / int_2154daa1
Student Bodies	hasFeature	Hand of Death / int_2154daa1
Student Bodies	hasFeature	Horror Comedy / int_2154daa1
Student Bodies	hasFeature	Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday / int_2154daa1
Student Bodies	hasFeature	School Stories / int_2154daa1
StudentBodies	seeAlso	Student Bodies
Student Bodies	hasFeature	These Gloves Are Made for Killin' / int_2154daa1

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