| Head of the Family | |
| Director: | Charles Band (as Robert Talbot) |
| Producer: | Charles Band Kirk Edward Hansen |
| Screenplay: | Benjamin Carr |
| Starring: | Blake Adams Jacqueline Lovell J.W. Perra Bob Schott Alexandria Quinn |
| Music: | Richard Band Steven Morell |
| Studio: | Full Moon Entertainment Tanna Productions |
| Distributor: | The Kushner-Locke Company |
| Released: | (USA video premiere) |
| Runtime: | 82 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
Head of the Family is an American 1996 B movie black comedy released by Full Moon Features. It concerns a Southern couple who blackmail a family of mutants to get money and revenge.[1]
Howard is the meanest nastiest thug in town, a Harley riding criminal with an attractive wife named Loretta. Loretta's problem is that she is having an affair with Lance, owner of the town diner and Howard is getting suspicious.
Driving back from one of their nightly flings, Lance witnesses the local family of weirdos, the Stackpools, dragging a man from his truck and into their house. Seeing this as an opportunity, Lance discovers the Stackpools' terrible secret. They are quadruplets, and each was born with one exaggerated human faculty: One is extremely strong, one has extremely well-developed senses, one is extremely attractive, and one is extremely intelligent. The whole family is run by the intelligent one, the titular "head of the family": Myron. Little more than a giant head with hands in a wheelchair, Myron psychically controls his other siblings, but seeks more. When idiotic locals fall for his trap, he experiments on their brains, trying to find a normal body to house his superior intellect.
Lance blackmails the Stackpools with their secret, getting them to kill Howard. He also demands $2,000 a week in cash, since the Stackpools are rich in oil and coal, among other things. Eventually Myron tires of Lance's bottom-feeding, and captures him and Loretta, to get them to destroy the evidence of their secret. To force Lance's hand, he puts Loretta in a mock play of Joan of Arc in the basement, complete with a burning at the stake. Otis, seeing the "pretty girl" in trouble, carries her off before she can be hurt, and burns the house down. With the Stackpools and Lance dead, the ever scheming Loretta realizes that Otis Stackpool, as the sole survivor, is heir to the family riches. She marries him, inheriting all the Stackpool fortunes and becoming Loretta Stackpool. The ending, however, suggests that Myron is still alive and is controlling Otis from the shadows.
Promotional material for a Bride of the Head of Family was released on February 14, 2020. This was promoted as a part of the Deadly Ten series[2] and was set to be directed by Charles Band. The plot of the film will follow the events of the previous film.[3]