Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

The Worst Film Ever

Thanks for the memories!

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

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.

Wow!! For an old horror movie this one sucks. It also is not a horror movie at all in my opinion, it is at best a suspense. It is slow to develop and never gets any better. The acting is average at best. They did do a good job with the head of the bad guy when he is unearthed, at least for back then when the special effects were suspect most of the time. The dream flash back when the dowser is over come by I don't know what explains a lot but not all of the back ground information is supplied. Why didn't they just burn the body and/or the head? Well then there wouldn't have been a movie of course. I don't understand why TMC aired this one. They usually have much better movies.

I saw this when I was watching an MST3K marathon, and even though it's prolly one of the better MST3K's their riffing couldn't disguise the fact that the film did have a great air or menace. The plot is surprisingly coherent and the performances, well some of them are performances rather than "look ma i'm in a movie". The story goes like this, idiot city slickers are present when idiot hicks dig up box, box is said to contain pure evil, it does! Idiot hicks can't resist opening box because any buried box to them means treasure, or cookies, or treasure. Box contains evil head, on the lookout for evil body. Idiot hicks are easily seduced by evil head and do it's evil bidding. Evil head tries to seduce beautiful Idoit hickette because she is psychic and hot. (now would be a good time for getting head joke, but I'm not going there). In a showdown between the forces of good and evil, evil head reveals himself to be none-other than someone from 400 years ago you've never heard of. Needless to say it all ends in tears. However The film does have pacing and suspense and the characters do things you wouldn't expect them to do for a 1950's film. All in all it's one of those films that if it's late, you can't sleep, and it's on, is well worth watching, from a time where atmosphere was more important that it is today.

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.