Body Count (1986)

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Sadly Over-hyped

Best movie ever!

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Every review I've read has said the same exact things about how the film is very different and disappointing for the director especially regarding the amazing cast so I'm not going to go into that; but I do want to say that the soundtrack reminded me of Klaus Schulze's for Angst (1983) which is possibly my favourite movie soundtrack of all time so it definitely has that going for it. Other than that, this film started off as a six for me and it continued and ended in exactly the same way. No highs and no lows. Just a solid, standard American style 80's slasher, despite having been made in Italy. Don't think this will have anything about it that's reminiscent of giallo other than the base themes that the general slasher took from the genre because it does not resemble gialli at all. I own a VHS rip and it still looks pretty awesome to me so that says something. Dated, but awesome. As others have noted, the location is A plus and Mimsy Farmer is absolutely stunning.

After noting the director, Ruggero Deodato (the man responsible for the gruelling cannibal flick CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST), and one of the film's main stars, David Hess (LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT), you might be forgiven for thinking this slasher film is going to be packed full of extreme violence and gore. Well, you'd be mistaken, as it's merely another rehash of Friday THE 13TH, with a few gruesome deaths but nothing that hasn't been done before.It's not that the film is particularly bad, it's just average, but I would have expected a lot more from Deodato. However, this run of the mill story goes through all of the expected stalk and slash clichés with hardly a single original shot in sight. We've got the showering girls, the POV killer shots, the running through the woods. The deaths are mainly stabbings and axings, plus the expected Friday THE 13TH death rip-off where a girl lying on a bed has a knife shoved through her chest from underneath, just like Kevin Bacon had an arrow shoved through his throat from underneath a bed in that film.The main cast of teenagers are the expected clichéd group: the fat guy, the nerd, the blonde bimbo, the athletic guy, the cool guy. None of these actors and actresses are very good, passable though. It does get annoying after a while to see actor Bruce Penhall continually riding around on his motorbike and doing stunts, but I guess that's what you get from a former motorbike champion turned actor. It's pretty absurd to watch the excuses for all the main female cast members lose their clothes, so rest assured that there's a lot of nudity here from the 'teenage' actresses.There are a couple of interesting actors in the film, namely Charles Napier (RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART II) who does his usual tough policeman stuff; Mimsy Farmer; and the aforementioned David Hess, whose frightening persona is woefully underused but fun anyway. It's good to see Ivan Rassimov (MOUNTAIN OF THE CANNIBAL GOD) in another film too, this time in the small role of a doctor. The score, by Claudio Simonetti from The Goblin, isn't bad either, while the monster makeup is pretty effective and scary. The killer is obvious from the start, though, and the red herrings are slightly over-emphasised and can be seen a mile off. If you're looking for a typical slasher film then you could do worse than this, but other than the novelty value of being Italian, this is nothing we haven't seen before. Check out THE BURNING instead.

Some psycho in a Shaman mask is bumping off young adults who stop off to stay at an old camping grounds to hang out and have some fun. Free-spirited, goofy, sexually liberated, loud, with constantly misfiring jokes and pranks played on each other, the victims of the killer are your typical bunch of rowdy kids right out of high school, on the road in a RV, who so happen to park this vehicle in the wrong place. Slayings of two teenagers (with two others considered victims of bear attacks) closed the campgrounds, owned by a bickering couple who can't stand to be around each other (David Hess and Mimsy Farmer). This married couple's son is picked up by the RV gang (some of the girls want to shag him) which led to their taking him to the campgrounds, spending the night, and becoming objects to stab. Introduced into the mix is Sheriff Charlie (Charles Napier) who loves (and has been an affair for decades with) Mimsy; their affair might be a link to the murders. If notorious director Deodato wasn't the director, and the likes of Hess and Napier weren't in the cast, I imagine Body Count would be just another forgettable slasher that clogged itself on the VHS shelves in the horror section of movie rental stores alongside Slaughterhouse and The Newlydeads. It's all standard stuff, the chase scenes through the woods into the old rickety designated shower building, the basic large knife to the back/ax to the head/spear out the mouth violence associated with films out of the Friday the 13th mold. Claudio Simmonetti of Goblin gives the movie a boost of energy with his score, but, sadly, the recognizable faces of the cast, especially Hess, do very little to give the film the much needed value so it can be evaluated by slasher enthusiasts in a positive light. Deodato seems uninspired here, just cashing in on the slasher craze prevalent at the time, nothing in particular stands out, calling attention to his film; even Cut and Run has an energy in the filmmaking that gets you involved visually (although, the cast in that film, for the most part, deliver as well, unlike Body Count). Slasher purists are a dedicated, determined bunch, so I imagine many have already checked this out, but, as one enthusiastic about finally retrieving a copy, it doesn't have anything that warranted such anticipation to see it.

I rated this film highly because I knew what I was getting myself in for and I was drunk when I first watched it. I like a good old fashioned slasher that makes very little sense and is laughably bad.The Dialog sounds as if it was added at a later date and the situations that people put themselves in (while some of the friends are currently missing) are just plain stupid, but the film doesn't take itself too seriously and so I don't either.The fact that somebody is actually credited for 'continuity' is quite comical given the amount of mistakes in the movie.These may sound like bad points but they all add up to a funny (if unintentionally so) film.I recently bought this film and watched it sober. I was not disappointed