Trail of the Screaming Forehead (2007)

Trail of the Screaming Forehead: Directed by Larry Blamire. With Daniel Roebuck, Susan McConnell, Fay Masterson, Andrew Parks. A small town infestation of crawling alien foreheads that begin attaching to people and taking them over collides with a scientist’s experiments to extract foreheadazine and things go horribly horribly wrong.

“Trail of the Screaming Forehead is (I think) the 4th movie from the mind of Larry Blamire, and itu0026#39;s subject matter is the most eccentric yet. Basically it apes the B movies from the 1950u0026#39;s yet again, with the Blamire twist of more than one strand of plot happening at the same time. So this time we see a female scientist tampering with nature – sheu0026#39;s trying to prove that human intelligence is housed in the forehead not the brain, while at the same time, as fate would have it, alien foreheads from another galaxy are invading and taking over the minds and bodies of unsuspecting humans!u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe familiar cast from previous movies all return again, and not only that, they come back in this movie (See what I did there?). By now youu0026#39;ll have your favourites, for me itu0026#39;s Alison Martin, who is absolutely hysterical once again this time as the loopy librarian, and Jennifer Blaire, who again looks amazing, plus sheu0026#39;s a very good actress and singer so I am surprised sheu0026#39;s not seen more often. But all of the cast are great and play everything to perfection.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIf anything lets the film down itu0026#39;s the plot, which hinges on anything associated with the forehead, so unless you find this concept funny in itu0026#39;s purest abstract form, you might find parts of the film bewildering. I mean, thereu0026#39;s only so much laughter that can be extracted from the subject of foreheads! But they make a very brave attempt. Thereu0026#39;s also a slight shift in the parody aspect, as there are no more bad special effects, these have all been replaced by adequate special effects, so the humour comes from the script which is littered with just as many of the trademark stilted funny lines as before, in fact this time it feels like EVERY line of dialogue has something silly planted in it, so thereu0026#39;s much fun to be had just by listening. Iu0026#39;m amazed that the cast manage to say some of them without getting them wrong.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIf youu0026#39;ve seen the Lost Skeleton movies and would like more, then this delivers, but for newcomers to this niche genre, I wouldnu0026#39;t start with Screaming Forehead, as itu0026#39;s just too plain odd to grab you as quickly as the previous three Blamire epics. Worth seeing though.”