Beverly Hills Bodysnatchers (1989)

Director:

Jonathan Mostow

Writers:

Jonathan Mostow (story)
P.K. Simonds (screenplay)
(more)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot:

A doctor and a mortician have teamed up to do re-animation experiments on corpses using gangster money...

Plot Keywords:

Independent Film

Cast

Vic Tayback	...	Lou
Frank Gorshin	...	Doc
Art Metrano	...	Vic
Rodney Eastman	...	Freddie
Warren Selko	...	Vincent
Keone Young	...	Don Ho
Brooke Bundy	...	Mona
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Allison Barron	...	Julie
Dave Bean	...	Reporter
Linda Carol	...	Heather
Steven Field	...	Nunz
Christian Hoff	...	Stu
Seth Jaffe	...	Don Carlo
Jim Noble	...	Zombie

Directed by
Jonathan Mostow

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Jonathan Mostow		story
P.K. Simonds		screenplay
P.K. Simonds		story

Produced by
Margaret Breitenstein	....	associate producer
Kurt Eggert	....	associate producer
Oliver G. Hess	....	executive producer
Kevin M. Kallberg	....	executive producer
Jonathan Mostow	....	producer
P.K. Simonds	....	producer
Susan Stremple	....	co-producer

Original Music by
Arthur Barrow

Cinematography by
Zoran Hochstätter

Film Editing by
Barry Zetlin

Casting by
Sharon Nederlander

Production Design by
Lea Anna McConnell

Set Decoration by
Greg Benge

Makeup Department
Erin Brasfield	....	makeup department head

Production Management
Susan Stremple	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Ken Fischer	....	second second assistant director
Kristine Peterson	....	assistant director

Sound Department
Doug Reed	....	foley artist
Don Sanders	....	sound

Camera and Electrical Department
Ron Bahara	....	first assistant camera
Stephen Ashley Blake	....	director of photography: additional principal photography
Bob Myers	....	key grip

Other crew
Samuel Braslau	....	location manager

Production Companies

• Busybody Productions
• Hess/Kallberg Productions
• McGuffin Productions

Distributors

• Shapiro-Glickenhaus Home Video (video)

Runtime:

85 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Ultra Stereo

Certification:

USA:R

Company:

Busybody Productions

A yawn more than a laugh (spoilers).

Beverly Hills Bodysnatchers takes place at a Beverly Hills mortuary where a scientist and I suppose, a mortician, have teamed up to experiment on bringing corpses back to life. But, the experiment was funded by a loan from a local mob boss who is breathing down the second-in-command's (Vic) neck to get their loan fully repaid. But Vic's got other plans and instead, tries to buy his time by forcing his two idiot (but not totally braindead) surfer nephews to work at the mortuary and keep an eye on his debtors. But actually, they work against their uncle, promised a cut in on the expected corpse-reviving scheme that the mortician and scientist say will make them rich. Needless to say, things do not go as planned.

This movie was, for the most part, a disappointing comedy. I suppose by the animated cover art, I was expecting some stupid humor, but the film actually fails to offer many laughs, despite the potential in the story. Even the moments with the corpses running around unsupervised weren't funny. With the filmmakers having failed to take advantage of a rather idiotic series of events, it is mediocre at best.