History Film / StudentBodies

* ((Parody)): The 1981 film is remembered as the first parody of slasher movies, and it manages to identify and mock quite a large number of slasher film conventions that are still a part of the genre today.

* AmbiguouslyGay / DoesNotLikeMen: Ms. Van [[MeaningfulName Dyke]]. During a health class she explained how the male reproductive organs were disgusting and unnecessary.

* AvoidTheDreadedGRating / RatedMForMoney: Parodied in one of the film's most famous scenes:

** Every theatrical movie also has to show the trademarked MPAA logo alongside its assigned rating; this is one of the few movies to show it in the middle of the movie (most show it after the movie, but some show it before it even begins).

* HypocriticalHumor: "I wouldn't hurt a fly!"
** Cue [[spoiler:Body Count: 6 1/2]]

* PrecisionFStrike: See AvoidTheDreadedGRating.

* SatireParodyPastiche

* MeaningfulName: Toby Badger "badgers" her friends not to have sex. Alas, [[SexSigna;sDeath she lives in a slasher film]].

* ADateWithRosiePalms: The Breather has one in the girls' locker room.
--> '''The Breather:''' I'm doing what mommy told me not to do!
** Earlier, during the first phone call, it's pretty obvious what he's doing when a white liquid starts pouring out through the phone's receiver.

* DeathBySex: Well duh, it '''is''' a slasher movie! The poster even lampshades it, with a button reading "sex kills" beside the corpse of a co-ed.

* MeaningfulName: Toby Badger "badgers" her friends [[SexIsEvil not to have sex]]. [[GenreBlind Alas]], [[DeathBySex she lives in a slasher film]].

* MoralGuardians: InUniverse example with FinalGirl Toby, who follows her friends around to remind them not to have sex. They do, and [[DeathBySex they die]].

* HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday: The Film starts, says "[[spoiler:Halloween]]" on screen but nothing happens, fade out. Fade in again on "[[spoiler:Friday The 13th]]" nothing happens on that day either, fade out again. Fade in again on "[[spoiler:Jamie Lee Curtis' birthday]]" that's when all hell breaks loose!

A 1981 HorrorComedy film directed by Michael Ritchie (uncredited in that capacity, though he's [[AlanSmithee sort of credited as a producer]]) and co-directed by Mickey Rose (given a full director's credit), ''Student Bodies'' is a {{Parody}} of the many {{Slasher Movie}}s of its era and includes much LampshadeHanging of the various tropes and cliches of that genre, with the most noteworthy lampshade consisting of an onscreen body tally.

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'''Student Bodies''' is a 1981 film directed by Michael Ritchie (uncredited in that capacity, though he's [[AlanSmithee sort of credited as a producer]]) and co-directed by Micky Rose (given a full director's credit). It is a {{Parody}} / {{Satire}} of the {{Slasher Movie}}s of its era and includes much LampshadeHanging of the various tropes and cliches of that genre, with the most noteworthy lampshade consisting of an onscreen body tally.

* AlanSmithee: Smithee took a break from "directing" to "produce" the film (in place of Michael Ritchie).

The plot (such as it is) revolves around a mysterious murderer [[TheFaceless whose face is never seen]], known only as [[VaderBreath "The Breather"]], who -- say it with me now -- stalks and kills sexually active teenagers. The resident FinalGirl, Toby [[MeaningfulName Badger]], is something of a [[SexIsEvil Straw Prude]] herself and as such [[ClearMyName becomes the prime suspect]].

** The [[hand bursting from the grave]] parodies [[spoiler:''Carrie'']] in which it itself is just a dream.

* AmbiguouslyGay / DoesNotLikeMen: Ms. Van Dyke. During a health class she explained how the male reproductive organs were disgusting and unnecessary.

Before you [[Franchise/{{Scream}} Screamed]], there were ''Student Bodies''.

* BrickJoke: During their first phone conversation, the Breather trolls the faculty by saying "Click" while on the phone. The second time he calls the faculty, Ms. Van Dyke pulls the same joke on him as payback.

* ComicalOverreacting: The first victim's mother arrives home and has a screaming fit when she sees [[spoiler: the girl has not cleaned the house]] and then plays TheStoic when [[spoiler:she finds the girl's [[DeathOfAThousandCuts "mutilated"]] corpse]]. Lampshaded by being juxtaposed with the father's (completely opposite) reactions to same.

* PoliceAreUseless: "You have reached the police. We are closed. Lookout behind you!"