Five friends in their early twenties are going on a camping trip to the
mountains, and there's nothing that Bruce (Mike Finland) would love more
to achieve during that trip ... and that's getting it on with Vicki (Manda
Vasas), but more and more he has to realize ... she's just not that into
him - but it gets worse than that, suddenly Tom (Nick Foreman) shows up,
and he (at 31) is slightly more mature than Bruce or any of his friends,
but being a writer, he's also slighty more interesting. Oh, and he's a
process of writing a book, about the murders that happened in these woods
only a few years ago, beheadings all of them - and it seems some Satanic
cult is behind it all. Then two of our heroes find a tree full of severed
heads, and when they return to the campsite, they find the car wrecked ...
and soon, more and more of our campers lose their heads quite literally as
well ... So ok, if you're a horror fanb, you might have heard
the plot of Head quite a few dozen times before, and especially
1970s grindhouse flicks will undoubtedly come to your mind. And yes, the
movie is as derivative as its dialogue is clichéed, its characters are
flat and it's buildup is predictable ... and these are all the aspects
that make this movie so good, so pretty much unique - because the film's
cast as a whole is made up from puppets, and rather simple and comical
ones at that, giving the situations (including sexual situations), the
dialogue, the gore a whole new (and rather hilarious) dimension. It will
probably leaving at all the wrong things ... but my guess is that's just
what the filmmakers intended. Great fun, really!
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