Shrunken Heads

chainsaw midget · February 27, 2020, 08:40:02 PM

You gotta hand it to Full Moon for just being friggin' weird sometimes.

This movie is about a group of spunky young kids, who get murdered, brought back and flying severed human heads to avenge their own deaths against a lesbian (?) mob boss and a local group of street punks that feel like they came straight out of a Stephen King story.

At time this feels like an 80s kids flick, at times a superhero origin story, and at times low budget horror. This is a weird one. It's not entirely good, but it's certainly worth watching just for how badly it defies the typical movie plot structure.

indianasmith · February 28, 2020, 12:03:28 AM

You could always count on Full Moon to deliver Joe Bob Brigg's "3 B's" - blood, breasts, and beasts!

dcj2112 · February 28, 2020, 09:04:22 AM

Quote from: chainsaw midget on February 27, 2020, 08:40:02 PM
You gotta hand it to Full Moon for just being friggin' weird sometimes.

This movie is about a group of spunky young kids, who get murdered, brought back and flying severed human heads to avenge their own deaths against a lesbian (?) mob boss and a local group of street punks that feel like they came straight out of a Stephen King story.

At time this feels like an 80s kids flick, at times a superhero origin story, and at times low budget horror. This is a weird one. It's not entirely good, but it's certainly worth watching just for how badly it defies the typical movie plot structure.

I watched this last year and it was much better than I expected. It was intended to be a franchise. The story I'd most like to see is a prequel where that Haitian kiosk owner is just a straight up serial killer. That dude was way too comfortable with cutting a bunch of dead kid's heads off and boiling them in a cauldron.

WingedSerpent · March 01, 2020, 02:19:06 PM

Remember seeing this on Sy-Fy years ago. Totally forgotten about it until you brought it up.

pennywise37 · April 04, 2020, 03:29:16 AM

i love this movie, the acting really varies from decent to awful if i recall but it's worth a watch as i love this film and it's one of the better full moon films.

if i recall i think it was Theatrical actually their first though i watched Evil Bong 2 recently and while looking up the 3rd one in the trivia for the 3rd one they i guess showed that theatrical and it said that was the first film they did theatrical but no this one was if i am not mistaken.

dcj2112 · April 05, 2020, 10:59:24 AM

Quote from: pennywise37 on April 04, 2020, 03:29:16 AM
i love this movie, the acting really varies from decent to awful if i recall but it's worth a watch as i love this film and it's one of the better full moon films.

if i recall i think it was Theatrical actually their first though i watched Evil Bong 2 recently and while looking up the 3rd one in the trivia for the 3rd one they i guess showed that theatrical and it said that was the first film they did theatrical but no this one was if i am not mistaken.

Unfortunately the IMDB trivia section is rife with errors. I know Full Moon always emphasized the home video aspect of their business, but wouldn't be surprised if a few were theatrically released. Charles Band's previous company Empire Pictures certainly relied on that revenue stream more.

pennywise37 · April 05, 2020, 11:20:08 PM

yes their 80's stuff like Ghoulies the first one anyways did get a theatrical release and that was i think his first. but Shrunken Heads was i think full moon's 1st theatrical release. i think even band himself said it was in the past, i forget where i heard it but he talked about when Ghoulies was Released and what i do remember is that the green guy was in the trailer in the poster but wasn't in the film than they got calls left and right

where is he? so they were forced to film it and put it in the film and the film was doing awful until he did that and after that he made a ton of money from it. much like that one Corman film i think it was Screamers? where they filmed stuff in the trailer and than everyone who went and saw it where is it? and well same thing they were forced to do that, my question is really simple why film stuff for a trailer but not put it in the actual film?

much like one of the Highlander films did that apparently as well

RCMerchant · April 06, 2020, 10:55:18 AM

Quote from: pennywise37 on April 05, 2020, 11:20:08 PM
much like that one Corman film i think it was Screamers? where they filmed stuff in the trailer and than everyone who went and saw it where is it? and well same thing they were forced to do that, my question is really simple why film stuff for a trailer but not put it in the actual film?

It was withdrawn so they could add an "inside-out" man.

pennywise37 · April 06, 2020, 03:59:53 PM

yeah and funny enough i still haven't seen it. i love Corman as he's my favorite producer of all time and i do love Band's films but not as much as Corman's. and Corman on how much of a greedy bastard he can be at times i dunno if you knew this but when Cockfighter came out way back in (1974) it was a huge flop so he told them to had those cars crashing into each other or whatever footage he liked to use back than into a dream sequence and he also put out in theaters about a dozen times under different titles which always made the guys working for him laugh.

cause each time it was out he would lose money cause nobody wanted to see it. and though Corman is known to be a nice guy and such Band however is said to be a prick. case in Point Tim Thomerson he had a fight with him back in the 90's i think it was over not paying him or something i forget what i heard and that's why he stopped doing films for him and apparently they made up or something cause he later did a cameo in Evil Bong the 1st one in (2006)

it's also why David Allen stopped working for him as well they had a falling out. Band from what i have heard has a habit of not paying the people who work for him.
i dunno if all of them sue or not but he's got a lot of enemy's out there because of that. the only reason Paramount stopped making movies with him at all well one of the reasons anyways

was cause they'd give him say a million bucks for a film and he'd shoot it for say $10 or $20 grand and than pocket the rest and Paramount at some point found out about it and i don't remember if he was sued or not i think he was. but had he been honest with them and not done any of the shady things he did ya know what? instead of being greedy like he is he just might still be making movies with them.

the quality was better and he had bigger and better budgets so you'd think he'd want to keep that relationship and not break the law but..... why is he not in jail? i think they settled out of court for an undisclosed sum i think? i dunno how much of this i got right but at least some of it i think is.

i love Band's movies well not every movie as he has done a lot of bad ones for example "Seed People' is terrible and so is the movie Crash with John Carradine. that one is painfully bad. but he's done a lot of good ones too like Evil Bong the 1st one the film is a really stupid film but it's a lot of fun too