The Head in the TV showQuark.
Nazis at the Center of the Earth – another movie starring Hitler’s head on a robot body, one of the great Syfy flicks.
Do the feature length Futuramas count? I haven’t inspected them in detail for this feature, but heads in jars, particularly Nixon’s head, show up all the time.
The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant, with a wonderful performance by Bruce Dern as the mad scientist.
I remember the head in the box mouthing words. Was the head trying to join its body? If so that movie totally scared the shit out of me for years.
The Man Without A Body (1957)
There’s an episode of Aah! Real Monsters (Nickelodeon cartoon) where the monsters are in danger of vanishing. Ickus’s body is erased so all that remains is his head, which Krum carries around.
Scary Movie has Shannon Elizabeth being stabbed and dismembered. She is unimpressed and is speaking in sarcastic barbs even after Ghostface dumps her head in the trash.
Not a movie…but didn’t Fringe have Desmond’s (from Lost) head reanimated in the Observer’s lab?
Oh, that was a strange one!
Yes, that was its goal. It frightened me quite a bit as a youngster. Then I saw it again as an adult – not so much!
There’s, “The Man with the Severed Head” (1973), “Las ratas no duermen de noche” (original title). Also known as “Crimson, the Color of Blood”. I’ve not seen it, but unless the title is false advertising, it would seem to fit the bill here.
There’s also an early 60’s or late 50’s teenagers-in-a-haunted-castle b&w horror/comedy, the name of which eludes me, that features a ghostly king whose disembodied head floats around the castle. Somebody will know the title.
The extremely peculiar Jeunet/Caro film City of Lost Children has a disembodied brain in a tank named Uncle Irvin. If you haven’t seen it, it’s kind of a cross between La Strada and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
You mean The Head That Wouldn’t Die.
(Okay, fine, Brain too, but “Wouldn’t” is the operative word here.)
That’s another movie that scared me as a kid!
Not a movie, but ISTR that John Carter of Mars had a sequel featuring a whole species of bodiless heads who used their spidery little legs to mount headless slaves and attach to their spinal cords.
And of course Harry Dresden has Bob.
Oh, of course, “The Headless Ghost” (1959).
“Zardoz.” A head large enough to contain Sean Connery.
The Kaldanes, from Chessmen of Mars.
A much sillier example of the trope was Mark Lenard 's character in the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century episode Journey to Oasis