Loved this movie. Haven't seen it years but it stuck with me, like all good horror should. Just a shame Jeff Fahey never quite got the recognition he deserved.
*Amazing cast, direction, cinematography, sound and editing, but what makes it truly outstanding is its amazing PACE. There is not a single slow or unnecessary scene over it's very brisk 129 minutes. Also Brad Dourif just devours ever scene he is in* One of my first DVD purchases decades ago and I still own it and watch it
My older brother showed me this movie on vhs around 1992 when I was 10 years old. He was like "Hey check out this cool movie!" I sit down on the carpet crossed my legs, chin resting in my palms, 1 hour and 30 minutes later I'm traumatized! Haven't seen it since but I do remember the accident scene, the bar scene and the handcuff scenes. Maybe I'll try to watch it for the second time before I turn 40.
I've only seen this movie once or twice but the VHS cover is seared into my mind from years of seeing it in the horror section of my local video store.
WOW!!! Forgotten about this movie. Have not seen it since it came out in 1991 - saw it in the theater. Will have to hunt this gem down and watch it again.
I remember I saw this on the Sci Fi channel. I never watched it from start to finish because of something going on at home. Years later I purchased it and am glad to have it.
I haven't seen "Body Parts" in a very long time, but I loved it when I was younger and absolutely fell in love with the story. Definitely a tour de force for Jeff Fahey. Great stuff.
Red has definitely given us horror fans some really entertaining genre features. Love his work. This was a great look back at one. Keep the awesome videos coming! We can never have too many joblo horror videos. 👻
He also wrote The Hitcher 1986 one of the best movies ever made and Near Dark 1987 and the car chase scene is fucking amazing and he ripped Chucky's arm of, made him fall from a window and turned him into a doll, impressive.
This movie freaked me out when I was a kid! A psychiatrist loses an arm in a car accident, but gets a new one, from a recently executed serial killer. They spoofed in an episode of The Simpsons Halloween Special, "Hell Toupee" where Homer gets a hair transplant from criminal Snake Jailbird, whom possesses Homer to go on a vengeful killing spree.
Thanks for the overview of how Eric Red re-shaped the source material. I read the novel (in English) and to me it was painfully slow and anticlimactic. If I remember right, the killer actually dies offscreen, in his bed, and we only hear about if afterward. Maybe the novel was hurt by the passage of time, or the translation, but Red's version is so much better. The movie is amazing! You mentioned the two central action scenes - the wreck in the beginning, and the handcuff car chase toward the end - and they still look shockingly real (Eric Red has posted long clips on his TH-cam channel). And this was all before CGI! He knew what movie he wanted to make, and he made it. For example, the image on the DVD (back in the day) was the killer walking off carrying two severed legs and silhouetted by fire. Perfect!
I watched it last night. It was better produced than I imagined it to be. I had expected a sort of made-for-video-only release. But it was a lot different. I enjoyed it.
Remember catching this on late night HBO when I spent the night at my aunt and uncle's in the mid 90's. Absolutely loved it! I remember seeing the VHS box art at the video store a lot back then too. I had completely forgotten about it until this video. Thanks again guys! 😁
No cap, I saw this movie at a church member's house one Sunday afternoon. A bunch of other church kids and I were over their house while all our parents were gone doing something (I don't remember), and they had this on for us to watch. I remember being grossed and creeped out even though I'd already seen a ton of violent, gory horror movies by that point at my grandma's house.
The scariest part of this movie is the beginning, watching that wobbly tire on the car knowing that in heavy traffic there's no where to go if that tires comes off and you'd be stuff in a horrible traffic accident. I think about that scene every time I drive in heavy traffic.
Great video, guys. I'm really fond of this movie. Not sure if this has been mentioned yet but the photo you have for writer David Newman here (of BONNIE AND CLYDE fame) is actually a photo of composer David Newman (GALAXY QUEST, THE PHANTOM, SERENITY).
I remember this movie when it first appeared in VHS format and actually mistook it for another body parts horror movie that took a more supernatural bent of which I cannot remember the name of.
A very underrated movie, I agree that car chase is intense and Jeff Fahey is acting his ass off here. I seem to remember another controversy was the movies subject matter of body part transplants was giving the medical field a bad name. The funniest line in the film comes when Fahey's character meets up with Brad Dourif's Bill: "I've got the other arm" Remo: " well you want to arm wrestle?"
I just watched it for the second time yesterday and now I'm looking up its reviews. There sure aren't many! which is a shame, because I loved it. It's like an episode of Tales From The Crypt made into a feature film. Also i just learned about a movie Body Bags that is a collection of shorts and one of them is called The Eye, which has basically the same premise I think..?
I've seen "Near Dark" before and loved it so I might give this a shot. Thanks for the heads up! Also I think the movie "Idle Hands" might've been inspired by this movie to some degree...because of the whole ✋ (and arm) thing. Just saying.
A somewhat similar theme (organ donations) but more sci-fi than horror is the short story called (IIRC) "The Assemblage of Kristin". The recipients gather to honor Kristin, and find that when they are together, something of her spirit still lives in the respective organs (for example, her donated hand retains it's affinity for pottery, her eye still longs to stare at a film star). Mostly positive, until one of the recipients refuses to participate...
Ive been looking for a movie. Idk if someone can help me.The movie was about a group of people going to an expedition into a "Tunnel" or "Cave". I remember there was a character named "Doug" or "Dog". There were some cyber monsters I think in the cave or tunnel and at the end they have to talk to an "Electric" man (There was a lot of electricity around this man or android and at the end the protagonist with a woman escape out of the Tunnel or cave and they show a scene they got out of like in a hill. This movie was from the 90s.
@@suavemsuavemente Uh. Great Guess, but it's not. Thank you so much for at least trying. Ive been looking for that movie for so many years. I watched when i was a kid, i was probably 6 yrs old and for some reason they used to play that movie in the TV.
Ok, I was looking for a similar movie I watched some years ago. Lets say late 90's or early 00'. I remebered a scene where they finally crashed in the killers apartement, to find an unfinished statue of Jesus made from bodyparts. And I think the last scene where they got him cornered on the roof of a hospital, where he threatened to drop a baby from the roof or something like that. Does anyone know the movie?
@@highwayman1218 yea i was watching that on prime the other week. I know him more from The lawnmower man. Body parts was koo. My older brother showed it to me when I was like 8
You should also do Lawnmower Man also with Jeff Fahey, he gives a very layered performance. First playing a doofus country bumpkin then becoming extremely intelligent.
Loved this movie. Haven't seen it years but it stuck with me, like all good horror should. Just a shame Jeff Fahey never quite got the recognition he deserved.
Eric Red is sadly underappreciated
One of my favorite horror films from the 90s. Excellent in every way.
easy on the hyperbole, r e t a r d
*Amazing cast, direction, cinematography, sound and editing, but what makes it truly outstanding is its amazing PACE. There is not a single slow or unnecessary scene over it's very brisk 129 minutes. Also Brad Dourif just devours ever scene he is in*
One of my first DVD purchases decades ago and I still own it and watch it
I watched Near Dark , The Hitcher and Body Parts so many times as a kid .I still love them to this day .
My older brother showed me this movie on vhs around 1992 when I was 10 years old. He was like "Hey check out this cool movie!" I sit down on the carpet crossed my legs, chin resting in my palms, 1 hour and 30 minutes later I'm traumatized! Haven't seen it since but I do remember the accident scene, the bar scene and the handcuff scenes. Maybe I'll try to watch it for the second time before I turn 40.
This is the Best horror movie no one has seen or heard about. True cult classic. 👍
I've only seen this movie once or twice but the VHS cover is seared into my mind from years of seeing it in the horror section of my local video store.
WOW!!! Forgotten about this movie. Have not seen it since it came out in 1991 - saw it in the theater. Will have to hunt this gem down and watch it again.
I watched this on TV in the early-mid 90s. Thought it was made-for-TV.
I remember I saw this on the Sci Fi channel. I never watched it from start to finish because of something going on at home. Years later I purchased it and am glad to have it.
I love this movie.
I bought the HD version on Amazon Prime lately since there is no bluray available here in Germany.
Happy Halloween 🎃
I haven't seen "Body Parts" in a very long time, but I loved it when I was younger and absolutely fell in love with the story. Definitely a tour de force for Jeff Fahey. Great stuff.
This is one of the best horror movies I've seen in theaters. Would be a great double feature with Serpent and the Rainbow.
Red has definitely given us horror fans some really entertaining genre features. Love his work. This was a great look back at one. Keep the awesome videos coming! We can never have too many joblo horror videos. 👻
Glad you enjoyed!
He also wrote The Hitcher 1986 one of the best movies ever made and Near Dark 1987 and the car chase scene is fucking amazing and he ripped Chucky's arm of, made him fall from a window and turned him into a doll, impressive.
This movie freaked me out when I was a kid! A psychiatrist loses an arm in a car accident, but gets a new one, from a recently executed serial killer. They spoofed in an episode of The Simpsons Halloween Special, "Hell Toupee" where Homer gets a hair transplant from criminal Snake Jailbird, whom possesses Homer to go on a vengeful killing spree.
Yeah, Treehouse of Horror! Listening to this, I totally recalled that Simpson's episode.
Great how they homage classic movies like this.
Thanks for the overview of how Eric Red re-shaped the source material. I read the novel (in English) and to me it was painfully slow and anticlimactic. If I remember right, the killer actually dies offscreen, in his bed, and we only hear about if afterward. Maybe the novel was hurt by the passage of time, or the translation, but Red's version is so much better.
The movie is amazing! You mentioned the two central action scenes - the wreck in the beginning, and the handcuff car chase toward the end - and they still look shockingly real (Eric Red has posted long clips on his TH-cam channel). And this was all before CGI!
He knew what movie he wanted to make, and he made it. For example, the image on the DVD (back in the day) was the killer walking off carrying two severed legs and silhouetted by fire. Perfect!
I saw this as a teenager, late night on Showtime.
I watched it last night. It was better produced than I imagined it to be. I had expected a sort of made-for-video-only release. But it was a lot different. I enjoyed it.
Remember catching this on late night HBO when I spent the night at my aunt and uncle's in the mid 90's. Absolutely loved it! I remember seeing the VHS box art at the video store a lot back then too. I had completely forgotten about it until this video. Thanks again guys! 😁
I loved this movie when I was young. Would love to see it again. Can you do a video on "I Madman"?
I Madman aka Hardcover is such an unsung classic. Great film.
I've introduced this film to so many friends, that car chase would have been done entirely in green screen today though.
GREAT WORK. Very Insightful. I love this...Eric Red Has been a hero of mine sine since I was a child!
AUGH! This movie isn't on any of my services! I neeed it!
Anything Jeff Fahey is in....will be entertaining and worth a watch!! I really enjoyed him in sketch artist with Drew Barrymore!
I've seen this 3 times. First when it actually came out
Bloody hell this movie looks insane! Wowza
No cap, I saw this movie at a church member's house one Sunday afternoon. A bunch of other church kids and I were over their house while all our parents were gone doing something (I don't remember), and they had this on for us to watch. I remember being grossed and creeped out even though I'd already seen a ton of violent, gory horror movies by that point at my grandma's house.
A lot of horror movies from that era looked like extended episodes of Tales From the Crypt. I miss those days.
The scariest part of this movie is the beginning, watching that wobbly tire on the car knowing that in heavy traffic there's no where to go if that tires comes off and you'd be stuff in a horrible traffic accident. I think about that scene every time I drive in heavy traffic.
I love w these videos! Thank you. I will definitely be looking for this movie.
Glad you like them!
Great video, guys. I'm really fond of this movie. Not sure if this has been mentioned yet but the photo you have for writer David Newman here (of BONNIE AND CLYDE fame) is actually a photo of composer David Newman (GALAXY QUEST, THE PHANTOM, SERENITY).
I caught that, too!
I remember this movie when it first appeared in VHS format and actually mistook it for another body parts horror movie that took a more supernatural bent of which I cannot remember the name of.
Fun flick!
Ah yes, cellular memory. I remember this movie, back when films were still creative.
Great movie, i remember seeing it back in the day and it was awesome
Eric Red's Bad Moon is one of the few werewolf movies that's actually really good. Please do a video on Bad Moon!
This movie is so great and creepy yet so underrated 😕
Always wanted to see this
A very underrated movie, I agree that car chase is intense and Jeff Fahey is acting his ass off here. I seem to remember another controversy was the movies subject matter of body part transplants was giving the medical field a bad name. The funniest line in the film comes when Fahey's character meets up with Brad Dourif's
Bill: "I've got the other arm"
Remo: " well you want to arm wrestle?"
As a kid during that time it was very difficult to watch this. VHS days..
Yeah, I watched it alone at night on HBO when I was maybe 12, and it scared me. Gave me nightmares about the killer, even.
Finally a review ! I loved this movie as a kid and thought same visuals still make me cringe Especially involving those realistic stitches!
Saw this in the theatre loved it
It's like the serious version of Frankenhooker.
Body Parts and The First Power are the 2 movies moat people haven't seen but should
Radical!
Wicked I didn’t know about this film. I’ll check it out 😎👍🏼
I just watched it for the second time yesterday and now I'm looking up its reviews. There sure aren't many! which is a shame, because I loved it. It's like an episode of Tales From The Crypt made into a feature film. Also i just learned about a movie Body Bags that is a collection of shorts and one of them is called The Eye, which has basically the same premise I think..?
I've seen "Near Dark" before and loved it so I might give this a shot. Thanks for the heads up!
Also I think the movie "Idle Hands" might've been inspired by this movie to some degree...because of the whole ✋ (and arm) thing. Just saying.
Jeff Fahey is pretty cool. I like movies he is in.
Such a crazy underrated flick. A lot of black humour, too.
A somewhat similar theme (organ donations) but more sci-fi than horror is the short story called (IIRC) "The Assemblage of Kristin". The recipients gather to honor Kristin, and find that when they are together, something of her spirit still lives in the respective organs (for example, her donated hand retains it's affinity for pottery, her eye still longs to stare at a film star). Mostly positive, until one of the recipients refuses to participate...
If you take suggestions for future entries in this series, would you consider 1989's "I, Madman"?
For sure! Love that movie. Good call!
the "car chase" with both characters chained has never been redone
When i first saw this video i thought it was Body Bags. Then the video started and realized i thought wrong.
A strange and fun movie.
This same premise is used in one of the shorts in the Cradle of Filth vehicle Cradle of Fear. Funny.
This was a great film 🤟💀🤟💀
This is one of my favorites, this movie is the reason I won't donate any body parts or receive any!❤
Obscuria Filmcast did a review on this film.
Jokes on you. I’ve seen this 100 times 🙂 although I did constantly get this and body bags(1993) mixed up.
Flopped critically and commercially. But I love it!
Nice
You guys have to do "The Gate".
So This where ocelot got the idea to put on liquid snake arm. 🤔
Ive been looking for a movie. Idk if someone can help me.The movie was about a group of people going to an expedition into a "Tunnel" or "Cave". I remember there was a character named "Doug" or "Dog". There were some cyber monsters I think in the cave or tunnel and at the end they have to talk to an "Electric" man (There was a lot of electricity around this man or android and at the end the protagonist with a woman escape out of the Tunnel or cave and they show a scene they got out of like in a hill. This movie was from the 90s.
Reminds me of 1995's Mind Ripper but not sure as it has one monster and not electricity men.
@@suavemsuavemente Uh. Great Guess, but it's not. Thank you so much for at least trying. Ive been looking for that movie for so many years. I watched when i was a kid, i was probably 6 yrs old and for some reason they used to play that movie in the TV.
Is it Nightbreed perhaps? Not really cyber monsters, but it does sound similar to that movie's ending.
@@TheWrongChannel i wish it was nightbread. But it is not. This was like a B horror movie type from maybe 1990-1993
@@suavemsuavemente omg after 23 yrs I found it! It was called downdraft.
Mandela Effect: Til this video I would have sworn Famke Jannsen played the wife in this.
Her name rings a bell - I think she starred in another Eric Red movie, "100 Feet."
Ok, I was looking for a similar movie I watched some years ago. Lets say late 90's or early 00'. I remebered a scene where they finally crashed in the killers apartement, to find an unfinished statue of Jesus made from bodyparts. And I think the last scene where they got him cornered on the roof of a hospital, where he threatened to drop a baby from the roof or something like that. Does anyone know the movie?
Oh yeah, I saw this one! Good flick! Wonder what ever happened to the lead guy? Kinda just dropped off.
He was in Machete
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Yeah, thats right! I knew he looked familiar in Machete.
@@highwayman1218 yea i was watching that on prime the other week. I know him more from The lawnmower man. Body parts was koo. My older brother showed it to me when I was like 8
@@StreetSlim 👍 Thats the other flick I remember him from!
I like Jeff better as a hero over a villain
I may not have seen this but Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland definitely have...
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Did they ever explain how the decapitated serial killer got a new body?
His temporary torso? Nope they never explained.
First! 😎
This movie is revelations it could happen because evil exist because of a darkness that is a spirit being lives among us.
This is a really good series but i feel like your intro needs an upgrade. Something with a stronger impression audio-wise and better aesthetics
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I saw this.movie. it stinks.
You should also do Lawnmower Man also with Jeff Fahey, he gives a very layered performance. First playing a doofus country bumpkin then becoming extremely intelligent.
what do you mean "never saw"? everyone has seen it, r e t a r d