Review of Head of the Family

I wanted to like "Head of the Family" a little more than I did because it's a fairly novel set up for a story. It features a super-intelligent head in a jar who controls his three siblings by telepathy. An unlikeable idiot tries to blackmail the head to get rid of another unlikeable idiot, so that he can make off with that guy's wife, who's also pretty unlikeable.

This was one problem with the movie: there's nobody to root for and the characters are drawn in very broad strokes with no depth to them. You think the protag is acting out of love for the woman he's having an affair with, but he continues trying to blackmail the family for money. In that case, the woman should be a channel for sympathy, but she really isn't.

The only character who behaves out of anything other than self-interest is one of the two brothers of the head in the jar, but he's dumb and barely says anything, and only emerges with a personality trait at the end of the movie.

Not giving you anyone to root for, the movie distances you from its characters, and some scenes go on far too long.

I will say, in its defence, that the movie has much more nudity than I expected. I'm still without a Full Moon Features flick I really like.