Happy Halloween, you creeps! Yesterday I watched and reviewed “Found”… spoiler alert, I really liked it (even though Mido slept through it. After 14 years of life and experience nothing impresses her). In “Found” a kid watched a videotape his brother stole from a rental place, and watched relentlessly. “Headless” is that movie. A movie that would inspire a serial killer.
Super low-budget, super trashy, lots of guts and poop and snot and earbrains and turdgooze and eyeballschplotz. The entire plot can be boiled down to this: A dirty goofball who sleeps in a dog crate spends his days abducting people, chopping off their heads, then has sex with the head. That’s it. It had a 27,000-dollar budget, all funded via Kickstarter. It looks, however, like a 27,000-dollar budget movie funded via Kickstarter!
Unearthed! Uncensored! Unleashed! The most blandly-mediocre film you’ll play silently in the background at a house party!
A lot of websites gave this movie alarmingly stellar reviews, but the audiences who then went to watch the movie left some pretty flat reviews of their own. I feel like I’ve been catfished! I mean, it was okay. Just okay. It’s visually psycho, something you do want to play silently in the background at a house party and see the reactions. It’s batshit. It’s explicit and exploity and gruesome and in that way it’s fun. Once you get used to the overall flavor of the movie it kinda falls flat. Nothing happens. Nothing escalates. There’s no turning point. There’s no finale. It’s just like watching a washing machine filled with severed human faces, it makes you yell “Oh holy shit! It’s a washing machine filled with severed human faces! Who would wash something like this? Who’s been in my goddamned HOUSE!?!?” but after a few cycles you’re sitting there calmly watching the same severed human faces tumble around and around. Still shocking and unnerving, but by the time you get to the spin cycle it’s starting to feel a bit old-hat.
That said, you should probably watch it anyway. It’s not a movie in the traditional sense anyway, more like an accessory to an existing movie. Headless doesn’t intend to be anything other than low-budget exploitation, like an homage to trash from movies past. Like I said – play it at a party!