Andrew Parks, Daniel Roebuck, Fay Masterson

After a meteor crashes down on the idyllic town of Longhead Bay, the townspeople become possessed by wriggling alien foreheads. It's up to sailors Big Dan and Dutch to save the earth from forehead dom...( read more  read more... )ination.

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Directed by: Larry Blamire

Release Date: June 8, 2007

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  • August 31, 2009
    Three irrelevant factors may explain why I enjoyed this film less than "The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra": first, I saw it in a painfully cropped 1,85/1 version (from the original 2,35/1), courtesy of the philistines of the Horror Channel; second, I am in a Vulcan mood at the moment ...( read more)and hence less receptive to humour; and third I watched it with my wife, whose mere presence tends to make anything much less funny.

    "Trail of the Screaming Forehead" is a pastiche of the invasion movies of the 1950s, prominent amongst which was "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (whose lead actor, Kevin McCarthy, has a cameo here.) It involves crawling alien foreheads (animated by Ray Harryhausen himself), human experimentation with the newly discovered substance foreheadazine, and two seadogs with a coveted cargo of foreheaded cadavers (otherwise referred to as dead corpses.)

    The whole cast of "Lost Skeleton" returns here, including a singing Jennifer Blaire (a.k.a. Animala) and "The Journeyman"'s Brian Howe in more substantial roles. Unfortunately, Susan McConnell, who was one of the comic geniuses of "Lost Skeleton", is given much less screen time here.

    I think the biggest flaws of the movie are its lack of a competent director and cinematographer, and its rather amateurish (or low-budgeted) recreation of the 1950s. I wish they had paid more attention to period detail, and gone for a more noirish type of cinematography.

    The whole story, of course, is deliberately ludicrous, with a good parody of the pseudo-science talk that was prevalent in the sci-fi movies of that era (and has not completely vanished since), but it is nevertheless entertaining. Moreover, it has a very good title song by the Manhattan Transfer (a band I used to enjoy in the 80s) and small roles for Dick Miller and veteran James Karen (who was in "Return of the Living Dead" and the remake of "Invaders from Mars", to mention only two of his 173 screen appearances.)
  • February 15, 2008
    Is this a killer forehead? Confusing...
  • November 23, 2007
    This one looks awesome.
  • July 6, 2007
    Script, acting, direction, lighting, characters, sound, color, animation, all genius.

    The opening credits are some of the best out there. Be sure to check this one out!

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