This segment never really bothers with the claustrophobic horror setpieces it teases at, though, instead devoting the overwhelming majority of its runtime to setup and then rushing through a couple minutes' worth of routine stalk-and-slash to close it all out. "The Gas Station" invests so much time establishing its premise.how isolated the service station is, how it's the absolute dead of night, and how easily Anne can get herself locked out of her fortified little station. This sleepy little service station is in the Haddonfield city limits, after all, and Michael Myers isn't the only unhinged serial killer to call it home. Anne tries to pass the time by cramming for a Psych 402 final, but instead of just reading about psychopathic behavior in an overpriced textbook, she gets an opportunity to witness it firsthand. A college student (Alex Datcher) does what she can to scare up a little extra money by working the graveyard shift at some hopelessly remote gas station. The first full segment, "The Gas Station", has all the right ingredients. (I say that from first-hand experience too: I rented Body Bags on VHS fifteen years and change ago, and I remembered absolutely nothing about it except the mortician bits with Carpenter.) The wraparounds with John Carpenter as a ghoulish mortician are shamelessly ripping off theĬrypt Keeper's schtick with that same morbid, campy, overly punny sense of humor, but they're still a lot of fun and easily the most memorable thing about the flick. The most frustrating thing about Body Bags - a made-for-cable horror anthology from the class of 1993 - is that it's almost good.
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