Head of the Family

This article is about the 1996 film. For other uses, see The Head of the Family (disambiguation).

Head of the Family
Directed by	Charles Band (as Robert Talbot)
Screenplay by	Benjamin Carr
Produced by	Charles Band Kirk Edward Hansen
Starring	Blake Adams Jacqueline Lovell J.W. Perra Bob Schott Alexandria Quinn
Cinematography	Adolfo Bartoli
Edited by	Poppy Das Lazar Djokic Steven Nielson
Music by	Richard Band Steven Morell
Production companies	Full Moon Entertainment Tanna Productions
Distributed by	The Kushner-Locke Company
Release date	November 29, 1996 (1996-11-29) (USA video premiere)
Running time	82 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

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.

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

Plans for a sequel titled Bride of the Head of Family date back to as early as 1997, when Charles Band first mentioned it in the Videozone for The Creeps. stating that it was intended as Full Moon's next release before Curse of the Puppet Master. This project never materialized.

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

External links

• Head of the Family at IMDb