What era is this film from? Who the heck can say as things look modern in some parts of town, while in others greasers roam the streets and the local mafia look as if they are from the 50's, but then there is a clip from a movie released in the 90's. It is like some halfhearted attempt to set the film in the 50's but were like to heck with it, we're creating a new era, the era of the shrunken head! This film's bizarre premise will let you believe that a head can fly and if you grew up in the 80's it will scream HBO intro whenever they do!
This film has a boy and his buddy as they meet the new kid in town. They are being bullied by greasers; however, the girl named Sally is against it, sort of. She says she will never go with Vinnie and immediately falls in love with Tommy the lead boy and then the boys are gunned down! A sick and demented voodoo man brings the boy's back as shrunken heads, not even doing them the favor of making them into bat wielding zombies like in Zombie Nightmare, but that is okay, they can not chew on necks, slit throats and zap bad guys now. Oh and Sally is back with Vinnie, the guy who killed the kids even though he was the obvious suspect. Meanwhile, Meg Foster looks like a dude making one forget how hot she was in her previous films.
I would ask who okayed the making of this film based on the script, but the film was written by full moon founder, Charles Band so when you own your own movie studio whatever the hell you can think up gets on film. Too bad he got so into horror comedies later in his career as he made some good stuff early. Granted, he also did Laser Blast... I will say his films at least look professional and are two notches above the films made by Troma during this time frame.
So, I was not impressed with this film as I have seen Full Moon movies that were fairly decent during the years. The whole premise of this one is just so insane as what the voodoo guy is doing seems wrong, the scene with the head going up the shirt seems wrong and just the whole thing is so wrong on so many levels. Basically, it is just like Zombie Nightmare, but instead of one zombie we get three shrunken heads and an indeterminate era...
This film has a boy and his buddy as they meet the new kid in town. They are being bullied by greasers; however, the girl named Sally is against it, sort of. She says she will never go with Vinnie and immediately falls in love with Tommy the lead boy and then the boys are gunned down! A sick and demented voodoo man brings the boy's back as shrunken heads, not even doing them the favor of making them into bat wielding zombies like in Zombie Nightmare, but that is okay, they can not chew on necks, slit throats and zap bad guys now. Oh and Sally is back with Vinnie, the guy who killed the kids even though he was the obvious suspect. Meanwhile, Meg Foster looks like a dude making one forget how hot she was in her previous films.
I would ask who okayed the making of this film based on the script, but the film was written by full moon founder, Charles Band so when you own your own movie studio whatever the hell you can think up gets on film. Too bad he got so into horror comedies later in his career as he made some good stuff early. Granted, he also did Laser Blast... I will say his films at least look professional and are two notches above the films made by Troma during this time frame.
So, I was not impressed with this film as I have seen Full Moon movies that were fairly decent during the years. The whole premise of this one is just so insane as what the voodoo guy is doing seems wrong, the scene with the head going up the shirt seems wrong and just the whole thing is so wrong on so many levels. Basically, it is just like Zombie Nightmare, but instead of one zombie we get three shrunken heads and an indeterminate era...