There have been many things in cinema that have been designed to scare us. Serial killers, cannibals, zombies, David Tennants acting, the list goes on. But on the flip side there has been plenty of things with the same intentions, but kind of fall shy of the mark. Remember Maximum Overdrive? Just some trucks, an ATM and a vending machine. And more recently, Rubber - where a tyre goes on a kill rampage.
But never before has the movies dealt with an alien invasion of foreheads. Not the entire head, just the bit at the top. So, thankfully here is one. Trail Of The Screaming Forehead tells the tale of the small town of Longhead Bay that is subject to an invasion of said alien foreheads. They latch on to peoples regular foreheads and take over their mind. You see, in a subplot, it is revealed that the forehead, not the brain is the center of thought in the head, and a scientist (Fay Masterson) is attempting to extract foreheadizine to try and make the worlds smartest person.
This is probably a good time to tell you that this film is a spoof of the sort of 1950s budget sci fi films you used to get. And for the most part, it does the job very well. The film is full of amusing word play, silly names and intentional line fluffs, but even with a slim running time of 88 minutes, the joke does start to wear thin by the end.
Nods go out to Alison Martin as librarian Millie Healey, who hilariously moves the plot along several times, and Brian Howe as 'Big' Dan Frater, a seaman whose every line of dialogue is gold. In fact most of the cast are highly amusing, it's just it all ran out of steam by the end for me.
The director and writer, Larry Blamire has done other films in this sort of style, which I will check out at some point based on this. It's never going to make big bucks, but they are a bit of a laugh for people who get the jokes. Worth a rent.
***
Fairly amusing monster movie spoof, but like a lot of send ups it goes on a bit too long. Worth a watch if you happen upon it though.
4 comments:
LOL @ Longhead Bay. Gotta say I've never heard to this one, though.
I was actually asked to review it, I had never heard of it either. As soon as I saw it though it started cropping up, was in the new issue of Empire and saw it in HMV lol
Isn't that always the way? Is this a recent film then?
Taking requests now, are we? :-b lol.
Think it's from 2007, but guessing it may have just got a DVD release over here. And I'll take requests if it looks like something I'd like lol
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