HEAD CASE: Director's Cut - Review by Lillian Patterson, Cinema-Crazed.com
HEAD CASE: Director's Cut - Movie Review (cinema-crazed.com)
HEAD CASE: Director's Cut (2007)
Rated: Unrated
Genre: Horror Mock Documentary Thriller
Directed By: Anthony Spadaccini
Running Time: 1.46
Review by: Lillian Patterson
Review Date: 5/6/08
Special Features: Not announced.
THE GOOD: Have you ever thought to yourself, "Damn, my neighbors (family, parents, friends, etc.) are crazy?" Want a cure for that thought? Watch "Head Case" and see what "crazy" really looks like in all its banal glory. I say "banal" because the thing about Wayne and Andrea, the older married couple featured in this film, is how maddeningly normal they are. They converse calmly about everyday things, raising kids, fixing holiday meals and the like, in this semi-bored manner that sets the viewer at ease, but at the same time they lure innocent people into their home and commit violent acts of murder, filming these slayings for future viewing pleasure the way some families film birthday parties and vacations. The footage looks real too, it's not slick like some other movies that pretend to show real amateur video footage. If you recall my review of the premier edition of this film, my only real complaint was the lack of gore in the movie.
| If that was your concern, have no fear, pick up the director's cut. There's definitely more grue this time around. Want to watch someone feed body parts down a garbage disposal, getting angrier by the minute when it doesn't work? This is the movie for you! Not only does this scene highlight the icky nastiness of the movie (yay, more blood!) but it displays the most disturbing thing about the couple: they don't see vicious murder as anything out of the ordinary. |
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They converse about in in the same calm tone they'd use to discuss home repairs or bills or any other everyday subject. In fact, Andrea shows more emotion when Wayne forgets to put a coaster under his drink than she does watching Wayne suffocate or dismember someone. As for Wayne, he considers murder a career. More than once he makes statements like "this is what I do" and "this is what I'm good at." He really is good at it too, this detachment from any human morals or emotions serves him well when he hacks away at his victims. The extra blood this time around was enough to turn my stomach, and hearing Wayne and Andrea's daughter scream as they "punished" her for walking in on one of the murders is truly disturbing. It's rare for movies to actually be disturbing in a culture where we've seen pretty much everything, but this movie achieves a level of "disturbing" that impresses me, and the director's cut contains more of what makes the movie great in the first place.
SUMMING UP: Check out the movie stills on the page and then do yourself a favor and check out the movie, too; even better this time around.
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