Quartile rating: 6/10 · 1 rating
A horror anthology containing three stories: a female college student working a graveyard shift is terrorized by a serial killer; a hair transplant goes horribly wrong; and a baseball player loses an eye and gets a new one from a recently executed murderer.
Body Bags is a serviceable horror anthology TV movie hosted by John Carpenter and Tobe Hooper, with three segments of varying quality. The wraparound framing device is amusing but the individual stories — a slasher, a body horror piece, and an eye transplant tale — feel fairly familiar for the genre. Acting gets a boost from recognizable genre faces and cameos (Carpenter himself, Hooper, Wes Craven, Sam Raimi), lending charm. Cinematography is TV-level competent but unremarkable. The stories don't break new ground in the anthology horror format, feeling derivative of Tales from the Crypt and similar efforts. Endings across the segments are predictable genre exercises. A decent watch for horror fans but firmly mid-tier.