Student Bodies (1981)

Less than two decades before Scary Movie spoofed horror, there was a little slasher movie satire called Student Bodies. It's a big day for the students and teachers of Lamab High School and everything is happening from the big parade to the big football game to the big dance. But the happy events are being overshadowed by a killer who calls himself "The Breather" and his motif is to murder the sexually active members of the senior class. His prime targets are the naughty prom queen candidates and their equally randy romeos and are murdered in the oddest ways (weapons of choice include a paper clip, a horse-head bookend, and even an eggplant while the boys get stuffed in garbage bags). The only person who tries to stop the murders and uncover the truth is the prudish class virgin Toby. But when she is pitted at the center of each crime scene, the suspicions grow and she becomes the prime suspect leaving Toby ostracized by her fellow classmates as well as the principal and the faculty (who, along with Malvert the janitor are also suspects). With the help of her best friend, the equally repressed Hardy, a disguised Toby goes to the big dance to clear her name and uncover the murderer. But can she stop the heavy breather before someone else dies...or before Toby herself becomes a victim herself? 13 ½ Murders + 1423 Laughs = Student Bodies. Let the laugh count (and the body count) begin. Written and directed by Mickey Rose; produced by Allen Smithee (aka Michael Ritchie).

Cast of Characters

Kristen Riter....Toby
Matt Goldsby....Hardy
Richard Brando (aka Jerry Belson)....The Breather
Joe Flood....Mr. Dumpkin
Joe Talarowski....Principal Peters
Mimi Weddell....Miss Mumsley
Carl Jacobs....Dr. Sigmund
Peggy Cooper....Ms. Van Dyke
Janice E. O'Malley....Nurse Krud
Kevin Mannis....Scott
Sara Eckhardt....Patti
Bryan Batytis....Wheels
Cullen G. Chambers....Charles Ray
Joan Browning Jacobs....Mrs. Hummers
Angela Bressler....Julie
Kay Ogden....Ms. Leclair
Douglas Cotner....Mr. Hummers
Charles L. Trotter....Announcer
Jonathan Walling....Al
Keith Singleton....Charlie
Dario O. Jones....Mawamba
Thomas D. Cannon II....Ralph
Oscar James....Football Coach
Robyn Flanery....Joan
Tammie M. Tignor....Dagmar
Anita Taylor....Bertha
Jack M. Armstrong....Joe
Brenda Maduzia....Punker
Dorothy Rich....Mrs. Peters
Anne Bell....Teacher
Kathryn Reve Doster....Sue
Lauren Ritchie....Student
Janice Elaine Berridge....Student
The Stick....Malvert the Janitor
Zeno....Meowing Dog
Casine....Dog Chauffeur