"The Gas Station" The best thing I can say about this one is the main actress, Alex Datcher, is a good actress. Unfortunately, the script gives her nothing to work with. There's barely even a story. She reports in for her first night as an overnight attendant at a secluded gas station. Random people show up...including a serial killer. That has the potential to be scary, but nothing here is even remotely scary.
"Hair" Stacy Keach (who's performance is the highlight of the entire movie) plays a dude who is super sad about his thinning hair. He tries various concoctions, but none of them work. Eventually, he goes to a hair growth doctor he saw on TV and before you know it, he's hairier than Cousin Itt's ballsack.
"Eye" Luke Skywalker is an up and coming baseball player on his way to the big leagues. Unfortunately, he can't drive for shit and while looking for a B-52's cassette (of all things), he wrecks his whip and ends up with piece of glass in his right eyeball. The hospital replaces his damaged eyeball with an eye from a serial killer. You can guess what happens next.
Book-ending the stories and sprinkled between them are more bad jokes by John Carpenter about drinking formaldehyde and stuff like that. It's pretty easy to see why this was never made into a TV show.
BODY BAGS is more watchable now than it was in 1993, because when I watched it back then, it was just lame and the stories all drug on forever...but nowadays, it's an interesting time capsule full of 90's as fuck fashions and hair, a truly impressive cast of genre legends, Barney the Dinosaur on the cover of TV Guide, vintage electronics and so on. With a runtime of 91 minutes, there should have been four stories instead of three. Also, bump up the terror and blood. Three scary stories and one campy one. Or a mixture like in CREEPSHOW.
