Head in a Box
These are movies that show a severed human head in a box or some other container - a bag, a basket, a jar, a refrigerator, wrapped up in cloth, etc.
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- DirectorDavid FincherStarsMorgan FreemanBrad PittKevin SpaceyTwo detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives.Spoiler Alert
After he surrenders himself to the police, John Doe, the seven deadly sins killer, has the head of Detective Mills' wife delivered to Mills in a cardboard box. This makes Mills so mad it triggers Doe's seventh and final sin killing, Wrath, when Mills shoots John Doe and kills him. - DirectorTom SchulmanStarsJoe PesciAndy ComeauKristy SwansonA mob bagman finds that his luggage, containing the proof of his gang's latest hit, has been switched.A man is told to deliver 8 severed human heads in a duffel bag or die.
- DirectorLiliana CavaniStarsDirk BogardeCharlotte RamplingPhilippe LeroyA concentration camp survivor rekindles her sadomasochistic relationship with her lover, a former SS officer - now working as a night porter at a Vienna hotel - but his former Nazi associates begin stalking them.A Nazi officer torments and protects a woman in a concentration camp. To show her that he has gotten rid of a man who was bullying her, he presents her with the man's severed head in a box.
- DirectorRené Cardona Jr.StarsAnjanette ComerHugo StiglitzZulma FaiadA wealthy playboy kidnaps and murders young women, feeding their corpses to his horde of felines.A psychotic millionare playboy lures women to his castle for sex, then kills them and feeds their bodies to a large room full of house cats. He keeps the women's heads in transparent boxes filled with liquid in his weapons and trophy room, along with an empty box waiting for his next victim.
- DirectorErnest R. DickersonStarsRutger HauerIce-TCharles S. DuttonA homeless man is hired as a survival guide for a group of wealthy businessmen on a hunting trip in the mountains, unaware that they are killers who hunt humans for sport, and that he is their new prey.A group of rich men bring homeless people to a cabin in the wilderness, then release them to hunt and kill them for sport. We see jars containing their victim's heads on shelves in a trophy room
- DirectorAntonio BanderasStarsMelanie GriffithDavid MorseLucas BlackAn abused wife heads to California to become a movie star while her nephew back in Alabama has to deal with a racially-motivated murder involving a corrupt sheriff.A woman kills and decapitates her husband, puts his head in a hat box and takes it to Hollywood, as she hears it talking to her.
- DirectorSharad PatelStarsJoseph OlitaThomas BaptisteLeonard TrolleyThe chronicle of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin and his tyranic rule from 1971 to his overthrow in 1979.The freezer door on top of a refrigerator is opened to reveal two severed human heads inside.
- DirectorWes AndersonStarsRalph FiennesF. Murray AbrahamMathieu AmalricA writer encounters the owner of an aging high-class hotel, who tells him of his early years serving as a lobby boy in the hotel's glorious years under an exceptional concierge.An evil henchman kills a woman and delivers her severed head in a basket. The head is lifted out of the basket by her hair.
- DirectorLuc BessonStarsSasha LussHelen MirrenLuke EvansBeneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government assassins.The KGB capture an American spy, cut off her head and mail it in a box to her agency, to send them a message. When a man opens the box we see her head inside it and we also see 8 more identical unopened mailed boxes on his desk that contain the severed heads of 8 more American spies.
- DirectorPatrice ChéreauStarsIsabelle AdjaniDaniel AuteuilJean-Hugues AngladeYoung Queen Margot finds herself trapped in an arranged marriage amidst a religious war between Catholics and Protestants. She hopes to escape with a new lover, but finds herself imprisoned by her powerful and ruthless family.After he is beheaded in the Bastille, Margot wraps up her lover's severed head in a cloth and carries it on her lap as she flees in a coach.
- DirectorNobuhiko ÔbayashiStarsKimiko IkegamiMiki JinboKumiko ÔbaA schoolgirl and six of her classmates travel to her aunt's country home, which turns out to be haunted.We see a young girl's severed head in a bucket and another severed head in a jar.
- DirectorWill CowanStarsWilliam ReynoldsAndra MartinJeffrey StoneA psychically gifted young woman discovers a centuries-old crate buried on her aunt's ranch. Opening it, her family discovers the living head of Gideon Drew, a 16th century devil worshiper who was beheaded by Sir Francis Drake.The living severed head of a devil-worshipper is found a centuries-old crate.
- DirectorJee-woon KimStarsLee Byung-hunChoi Min-sikJeon Gook-hwanA secret agent exacts revenge on a serial killer through a series of captures and releases.Korean police find a woman's severed head and put it in a cardboard box. A man trips when he is carrying the box and the head falls out.
- DirectorMichael AptedStarsWilliam HurtLee MarvinBrian DennehyA Moscow police officer investigates a vicious triple homicide and stumbles upon a high-level international political conspiracy.Several faceless corpses without fingerprints have their heads removed in a university lab to attempt to re-construct their faces to find out who they were. The heads are carried into the lab in cardboard boxes.
- DirectorJonathan DemmeStarsJodie FosterAnthony HopkinsScott GlennA young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.When searching for the identity of a serial killer, FBI agent Clarice finds a severed human head in a jar in a car inside a large storage space.
- DirectorStuart GordonStarsJeffrey CombsBruce AbbottBarbara CramptonAfter an odd new medical student arrives on campus, a dedicated local and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue.We see a living severed human head in a metal pan in a laboratory.
- DirectorMarjane SatrapiStarsRyan ReynoldsGemma ArtertonAnna KendrickA likable guy pursues his office crush with help from his evil talking pets, but things turn sinister when she stands him up for a date.Jerry stores the severed head of Fiona, a woman he killed, in his refrigerator. Then Fiona's head talks to him, telling him she needs company. He then puts two more severed women's heads in his fridge, that also talk to him.
- DirectorScott SpiegelStarsLiz KernRenée EstevezDan HicksThe overnight stock crew of a local supermarket find themselves being stalked and slashed by a mysterious maniac.A homicidal maniac is killing off the night workers in a market. We see the head of one of his victims stored in a refrigerator.
- DirectorDavid BradleyStarsWalter StockerAudrey CaireCarlos RivasNazi madmen preserve Hitler's brain on a small tropical island until the time is right to resurrect him and, along with him, the Third Reich.Hitler's severed head is put in a glass container and shipped to South America.
- DirectorJoseph GreenStarsJason EversVirginia LeithAnthony La PennaA doctor experimenting with transplant techniques keeps his girlfriend's head alive when she is decapitated in a car crash, then goes hunting for a new body.A woman's severed head is kept alive in a pan in a laboratory.
- DirectorSam PeckinpahStarsWarren OatesIsela VegaRobert WebberAn American barroom pianist and his prostitute girlfriend go on a trip through the Mexican underworld to collect the bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.Alfredo Garcia's severed head is carried in a bag.
- DirectorDaryl DukeCurtis HansonStarsElliott GouldChristopher PlummerSusannah YorkA timid bank teller anticipates a bank robbery and steals the money himself before the crook arrives. When the sadistic crook realizes he's been fooled, he tracks down the teller and engages him in a cat-and-mouse chase for the cash.A woman's head is cut off on the broken glass of an aquarium and falls into the aquarium. When he finds it, the aquarium's owner puts the head in a plastic bag and leaves it in the water.
- DirectorPhilip KaufmanStarsGeoffrey RushKate WinsletJoaquin PhoenixIn a Napoleonic era insane asylum, an inmate, the irrepressible Marquis De Sade, fights a battle of wills against a tyrannically prudish doctor.We see a large basket containing several severed heads underneath a guillotine.
- DirectorBaltasar KormákurStarsDenzel WashingtonMark WahlbergPaula PattonTwo hardened criminals get into trouble with the US border patrol after meeting with a Mexican drug lord, and then revelations start to unfold.A man who stole from a criminal cartel is killed and his severed head is put in a bowling bag.
- DirectorMel GibsonStarsMel GibsonSophie MarceauPatrick McGoohanScottish warrior William Wallace leads his countrymen in a rebellion to free his homeland from the tyranny of King Edward I of England.Scottish rebel William Wallace kills the King of England's nephew and sends his severed head to the King in a container.
- 1978–19852h 25mNot Rated7.5 (232)TV EpisodeDirectorDesmond DavisStarsKenneth ColleyKate NelliganTim Pigott-SmithWhen the Duke of Vienna takes a mysterious leave of absence and leaves the strict Angelo in charge, things couldn't be worse for Claudio, who is sentenced to death for premarital sex. His sister, Isabella (a nun-in-training), however, is a very persuasive pleader. She goes to Angelo, but instead of freeing her brother, she gets an offer from Angelo to save Claudio's life if Isabella sleeps with him. The only sympathetic friend Isabella has is a priest who, in actuality, is the Duke in disguise...and he has a plan.Judge Angelo demands that the severed head of Claudio be brought to him to prove that he was executed. The Duke arranges for the head of a dead pirate who looks like Claudio to be cut off and put in a bag and brought to Angelo instead.
- DirectorSimon WestStarsSylvester StalloneLiam HemsworthRandy CoutureMr. Church reunites the Expendables for what should be an easy paycheck, but when one of their men is murdered on the job, their quest for revenge puts them deep in enemy territory and up against an unexpected threat.Sylvester Stallone kills the villain with a giant knife. When asked for proof, he drops a bag containing the villain's severed head.
- DirectorMartin CampbellStarsAntonio BanderasAnthony HopkinsCatherine Zeta-JonesA young thief seeking revenge for his brother's death is trained by the once-great, aging Zorro, who is pursuing his own vengeance.A soldier named Captain Love cuts the head off of the bandit Joaquin Murrieta and tells his men "Bury the body, bag the head." Then we see someone carrying the head in a bloody cloth bag.
Joaquin's brother Alejandro, who witnessed his brother's death and beheading, later becomes the new Zorro. In disguise as a Spanish nobleman he meets Captain Love, who pulls out a large glass jar full of liquid containing Joaquin's severed head with its eyes open staring at us and offers Alejandro a drink from it. (This is based on the fact (or legend) that in 1853 the real Captain Harry Love preserved the real Murrieta's head in a jar of alcohol to prove he was dead.) - DirectorHans Petter MolandStarsLiam NeesonLaura DernMicheál NeesonA grieving snowplow driver seeks out revenge against the drug dealers who killed his son.A gangster brings a man's severed head in a box to a group of rival gangsters as a peace offering. When they open the box they pull out the head by its hair.
- DirectorWalter MurchStarsFairuza BalkNicol WilliamsonJean MarshDorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, is somehow called back to Oz when a vain witch and the Nome King destroy everything that makes the magical land beautiful.Princess Mombi is a sorceress who can switch heads. She keeps lots of women's severed but still living heads locked in display boxes so she can choose which one she wants to wear that day.
- DirectorPhilip G. AtwellStarsJet LiJason StathamNadine VelazquezAn FBI Agent seeks vengeance on a mysterious assassin known as "Rogue" who murdered his partner.A Yakuza boss's head is cut off then delivered to his daughter in a metal suitcase.
- DirectorRidley ScottStarsNoomi RapaceLogan Marshall-GreenMichael FassbenderFollowing clues to the origin of mankind, a team finds a structure on a distant moon, but they soon realize they are not alone.There are two severed heads in bags in this - the first one is a giant humanoid alien head that is carried onto a human space ship in a duffel bag, the second one is the severed head of an android from Earth that is still "alive" when it is zipped into a bag to transport it off an alien space ship.
- DirectorDavid TwohyStarsVin DieselKarl UrbanKatee SackhoffLeft for dead on a sun-scorched planet, Riddick finds himself up against an alien race of predators. Activating an emergency beacon alerts two ships: one carrying a new breed of mercenary, the other captained by a man from Riddick's past.Santana is a bounty hunter who tells Riddick that he will cut off his head and put it in a box to take it in to get the ransom. Ultimately, Riddick decapitates Santana and his head falls into the same box he was saving for Riddick's head.
- DirectorEthan CoenStarsMargaret QualleyGeraldine ViswanathanBeanie FeldsteinJamie regrets her breakup with her girlfriend, while Marian needs to relax. In search of a fresh start, they embark on an unexpected road trip to Tallahassee. Things quickly go awry when they cross paths with a group of inept criminals.Two young women rent a drive-away car in Philadelphia that someone has paid be delivered to Tallahassee. When they get a flat tire, they look for a spare tire in the trunk but instead they find a severed human head in a leather hat box full of ice. When they eventually deliver the hat box to its recipient, he drops it causing the box to open and the head to roll down the street.