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Aug 31, 2009 - 1:04 PM
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Thor
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I FINALLY found a copy of this 1994 film about three dead teenage boys who come back to haunt their bullies as flying shrunken heads!
It's pure C-movie territory, of course, with hilariously bad dialogue, acting, plot, effects etc. But that's Richard Elfman's whole thing. He also likes to turn political correctness upside-down and twist morality slightly. Because not only do the shrunken heads - the characters we're supposed to identify with - kill, they are ENCOURAGED to kill by their mentor, the voodoo priest Mr. Sumatra! It's dark "exploitation" comedy and revenge drama in one.
Favourite camp moment: When Tommy's shrunken head fondles the breasts of the young girl! LOL!
Richard Band provides a decent score, ranging from traditional horror to jazzy stuff. Elfman provides the jaunty main theme, which appears at the beginning and a few places throughout the movie, such as the scene when Sumatra "manifactures" the heads.
Oingo Boingo's "No One Lives Forever" appears over the car chase scene towards the end, probably inserted because of the energetic rhythm and the morbid lyrics....not unlike the use in TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 2.
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