# ID this horror comedy - 20+ years old **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 13, 2011, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-horror-comedy-20-years-old/574526 "2011-03-13T12:51:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-horror-comedy-20-years-old/574526/1 "2011-03-13T12:51:32Z")
My boyfriend was talking about a movie he saw but can’t remember what it’s called. He said he saw it when he was a kid, possibly when he was really too young for it. He’s 37 now so I’d guess it was mid 70s- mid 80s. The movie was about a heavy breathing murderer. It takes place in a high school. At one point the murderer was going after a victim and kept stepping in gum and said he was going after the gum chewer next. Any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-horror-comedy-20-years-old/574526/2 "2011-03-13T13:11:54Z")
Student Bodies? > **[Student Bodies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_Bodies)** > > Student Bodies is a 1981 American parody slasher film written and directed by Mickey Rose, with an uncredited Michael Ritchie co-directing. A spoof of slasher horror films such as Halloween, Friday the 13th and Prom Night, Student Bodies was the first film to satirize the thriving slasher film genre. A prominent feature of the film is a body count that is superimposed onscreen whenever a death occurs. > Student Bodies is about a serial killer who stalks students at Lamab High School, while at the ... ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-horror-comedy-20-years-old/574526/3 "2011-03-13T13:16:32Z")
That’s the one. Thank you!