I read a blurb on it that said that this disembodied head flies around at night, with organs still attached.:eek: I haven’t had much luck finding a copy.
Haven’t heard of that movie, but the flying-head-with-viscera sounds like a bit of Phillipino vampire folklore.
It sounds like the perfect companion for Master of the Flying Guillotine for a double-header snicker night of decrapitated fun.
I’m sorry, but this sounds hilarious. How does it steer? Isn’t it always wanging into trees and telephone poles and smacking into houses?
“Now, I go right into their window and—ow!”
“Martha, did you hear something whack into the side of the house?”
OK, I found this recap online: “A witch with a detachable head that flies around, complete with a spine and pulsating internal organs hanging from it, biting people . . .”
So apparently she uses the spine as a kind of steering device, though I imagine she might have trouble with it getting caught in branches and telephone wires. What “pulsating internal organs” would be hanging from her neck, though?
A detachable head! What won’t they think of next. I love modern conveniences.
I have that book “Mondo Macabro” mentioned in the review, and IIRC the flying head with trailing guts is some kind of pre-existing Asian myth. If I can find ther book I’ll see if I can verify this (or deny it and show yet again that my memory is for shit).
Sounds like this: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/scottandrewh/penanggalan.html
Help, the floating head is chasing me! No…wait, it snagged it’s spinal cord on the willow tree. I’ll just but this bag over it and slam it against the ground a few dozen times…
Rib Eye got the cite before I did.
On a related and totally uninteresting note, I knew about penanggalans well before this, despite an upbringing devoid of Filipino influence, through Dungeons & Dragons…
No need to do that—just grab it by the spine, twirl it around and let fly!
Thanks! The “Mondo” book is interesting, but not organized well. I found the reference to the movie, but not the legend (which it probably does mention somewhere, because I’m pretty sure I read about it there).
Sounds great-- and the soundtrack sounds like it’ll be good, too.
I’m a bit bumfuzzled as to how they managed to use “non-original music” from a movie that came out five years later, though. Maybe if it were a dubbed version, but it doesn’t appear so. Whaa?
I hope I can find it. It’ll go nicely alongside A Chinese Ghost Story. “The head! The tongue! The head! The tongue!”
Puh-lease!
Oooh, so whatcha gonna do? Bite me? Haw haw haw!
Oh, you are.
puts hand on floating head’s forehead, schoolground bully style
Nyah, nyah!
I’m picturing F.H. getting sucked into a jet engine, or hooking up with a flock of migrating birds, or skewered atop the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree . . . “This week, on The Flying Head . . .”
If you double-dog-dare the Flying Head to lick a freezing flagpole, it will get stuck and eventually get tired and just hang there by its tongue.
Really.
Wacky mixups ensue when Flying Head’s body wanders off with her roomie’s boyfriend, and a department-store mannequin has to “stand in.” Guest starring Sue Ann Langdon, Monte Markham, and Frank Nelson as the department-store floor walker.
[cue theme song]:
Who needs wings to fly?
Certainly not I,
I prefer to take off on the breeze,
Bite any neck that may please my fancy.
Look the other way,
I’ll bite you someday!
Long as there’s an open window nearby
Who needs things like wings to—[bump] ouch!
Yyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeessss?
Flying Head: “Umm, do you have any mannequins here?”
Frank Nelson: “NOOooo. We show our clothes on ferrets.”
. . . Them of course there was that awful 1970s action/adventure show she did, Head of the FBI.
Wasn’t she in a movie with the Monkees, too? Can’t quite remember the name . . .