Best movie of this year hands down!

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

I've run across this film several times. I've only seen the whole thing once, but every once in a while, I will change the channel and see that goofy disembodied head, moving its lips but not saying anything. It has no lungs, so it can't really talk. But it does control people's thoughts. The whole plot is beyond ridiculous and if there are worse actors around, I don't know where they are. Still, someone said to someone else, "Imagine a head being found that had been buried separate from its body. What would that head do?" Well, you create a little history, have people act in goofy ways, make the thing indestructible, and go from there. It sounds pretty campy, but it is so slow moving and getting to the point that it suffers on the vine.

Not quite as awful as the 2.8 rating suggests but it's still not a good movie let alone a great one. There are moments certainly, there's a spooky music score, Andra Martin is an appealing enough female lead, Robin Hughes is appropriately menacing and the head effects are okay. Unfortunately that is pretty much it for the halfway decent moments. The rest of the effects are substandard at best, and the other production values don't fare that much better with spare settings and barely competent photography. The less said about the dialogue the better, a lot of it was very stilted and often difficult to understand in terms of clarity. There is a campiness to the goings on and to the rather thin and dully paced story. And sadly what was meant as a horror-thriller is lacking in any thrills or scares, it's all predictable, dull and unintentionally funny. Martin and Hughes are the only decent actors here too, the rest are terrible, the worst offenders being Carolyn Kearney who embarrassingly overacts and Peggy Converse who is just as obnoxious with a voice that really grates on the ears. Overall, pretty bad but not completely terrible, there's worse out there. 4/10 Bethany Cox

This 1950's B-flick falls under the "it's so bad that it's good" movie category.I watched this picture numerous times as a kid on t.v. and hadn't seen it in years when I lucked out and caught it on American Movie Classics a few years back.Time had not changed the cheesiness of the plot, or the terrible acting by most of the lead actors, but who cares? This movie was made in the 1950's, when cheesy horror and sci-fi movies were all the rage.The plot revolves around a psychic young woman, Jessica, (portrayed by Carolyn Kearney, who wildly over acts in every scene she's in) who discovers an ancient chest buried on her Aunt's ranch. The chest contains the severed head of Gideon Drew (Robin Hughes), who was put to death several centuries earlier for satanism. Drew wants his head to be reunited with his body, and hey, who can blame him? There are several hilarious scenes of Drew's head being carried all over the ranch by the ranch's imbecile ranch hand Mike, as well as the head being hid in a hat box, etc. Can you stand it? They just don't make movies like this anymore.I love everything about this movie, from start to finish! It's not scary, just fun.

Pretty scary to me when I saw it as a kid, and then I thought it was quite interesting when seen on AMC (yes, on AMC) a couple of years ago. The premise is a good one, disembodied living head of centuries old warlock is dug up and exerts mind control over all, while looking for it's body. It has quite a nice, sudden ending that reminded me of Hitchcock (not in style, only in the fact that it ended rather unexpectedly - for an example, see Family Plot again) but with a neat anticlimax, one that predates the typical anticlimax of modern fright films. I won't spoil it by telling it, but if you can see this film and remember that it was made in 1958, then you'll enjoy it. If your idea of what's scary is Alien, or anything after that, then forget it, you'll probably be bored or laugh inappropriately. Not that Alien isn't scary, but that's a whole different generation of horror.