Gosh, that would be an excellent double feature.
Head explodes
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Gosh, that would be an excellent double feature.
Head explodes
No, the exploding-head double feature would be Scanners and JFK.
Ha! (But no love for Raiders of the Lost Ark?)
No, the exploding-head double feature would be Scanners and JFK.
Someone should combine these two movies.
Was Oswald the scanner? Or was it an agent of Castro? Ooh, we could have a mob hitman scanner....
Didn't the head in Raiders melt, more than 'splode? Or did it do both?
It definitely did melt. I don't remember if it exploded at the end.
I think the Lorre-esque creep (with the folding hanger) was the one whose head exploded after melting almost completely.
"exploding head movie" is a useful google search.
The upside is that there are exploding heads in "A History of Violence," and since the studio has asked that the movie's secrets not be revealed, I'm not going to say if Hurt's is one of them.
I can reveal, though, that "Violence" is easily David Cronenberg's best exploding-head movie since "Scanners" which as anyone knows, is the best exploding head movie of all time.
In Raiders, I think the creepy torture guy with the glasses melted, and Belloq exploded.
It didn't seem weird that I knew that until I wrote it out.
That's what I remember, too. One head melts, another pops.