Head of the Family

Head of the Family is an American 1996 B movie black comedy released by Full Moon Features. It concerns a Southern couple who blackmail a family of mutants to get money and revenge.[1]

This article is about the 1996 film. For other uses, see The Head of the Family (disambiguation).
Head of the Family
Directed byCharles Band
(as Robert Talbot)
Screenplay byBenjamin Carr
Produced byCharles Band
Kirk Edward Hansen
StarringBlake Adams
Jacqueline Lovell
J.W. Perra
Bob Schott
Alexandria Quinn
Music byRichard Band
Steven Morell
Production
companies
Full Moon Entertainment
Tanna Productions
Distributed byThe Kushner-Locke Company
Release date
  • November 29, 1996 (1996-11-29)
(USA video premiere)
Running time
82 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Plot

Howard is the meanest nastiest thug in town, a Harley riding criminal with an attractive wife named Loretta. Loretta's problem is that she is having an affair with Lance, owner of the town diner and Howard is getting suspicious.

Driving back from one of their nightly flings, Lance witnesses the local family of weirdos, the Stackpools, dragging a man from his truck and into their house. Seeing this as an opportunity, Lance discovers the Stackpools' terrible secret. They are quadruplets, and each was born with one exaggerated human faculty: One is extremely strong, one has extremely well-developed senses, one is extremely attractive, and one is extremely intelligent. The whole family is run by the intelligent one, the titular "head of the family": Myron. Little more than a giant head with hands in a wheelchair, Myron psychically controls his other siblings, but seeks more. When idiotic locals fall for his trap, he experiments on their brains, trying to find a normal body to house his superior intellect.

Lance blackmails the Stackpools with their secret, getting them to kill Howard. He also demands $2,000 a week in cash, since the Stackpools are rich in oil and coal, among other things. Eventually Myron tires of Lance's bottom-feeding, and captures him and Loretta, to get them to destroy the evidence of their secret. To force Lance's hand, he puts Loretta in a mock play of Joan of Arc in the basement, complete with a burning at the stake. Otis, seeing the "pretty girl" in trouble, carries her off before she can be hurt, and burns the house down. With the Stackpools and Lance dead, the ever scheming Loretta realizes that Otis Stackpool, as the sole survivor, is heir to the family riches. She marries him, inheriting all the Stackpool fortunes and becoming Loretta Stackpool. The ending, however, suggests that Myron is still alive and is controlling Otis from the shadows.

Cast
  • Blake Adams as Lance
  • Jacqueline Lovell as Loretta
  • J.W. Perra as Myron
  • Bob Schott as Otis
  • Alexandria Quinn as Ernestina
  • Gordon Jennison Noice as Howard
  • James Jones as Wheeler

Sequel

Promotional material for a Bride of the Head of Family was released on February 14, 2020. This was promoted as a part of the Deadly Ten series[2] and was set to be directed by Charles Band. The plot of the film will follow the events of the previous film.[3]

References
  1. Robert Firsching. "Head of the Family". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2016-01-16.
  2. "Bride of the Head of the Family". deadlyten.com.
  3. "Bride of the Head of the Family (2020) - Movie". Archived from the original on February 16, 2023.
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