The clan of Full Moon Entertainment’s Head of the Family
(1996) is very much the same as Tobe Hooper’s Sawyer Clan of The Texas Chain
Saw Massacre…only more “PC”. Myron is
the literally the “head” of his family as he is one of a quintuplet that each
share the same brain but have different bodies.
Myron (the brains), Otis (the brawn and muscle), Wheeler (the eyes,
ears, and smell), and Ernestina (beauty with the body) like to abduct strangers
for their own personal experimentation and fun.
When local sleaze Lance (Blake Adams) secretly watches the family in
action he decides to capitalize on the family’s misfortune by blackmailing them
to make the husband of his mistress Lorretta
(Jacqueline Lovell) disappear.
Myron doesn’t like being blackmailed and used and will do
everything in his power to bring Blake down.
Like the Sawyer clan Myron’s clan each have their own strengths and
weaknesses that are used to great effect in the film. Myron plays a mental chess game with Blake to
see who can out smart whom; he uses Ernestina to seduce men at their weakest
moments; Wheeler is used to spy on Blake and get information with his super
skins and Otis is the muscle that forces himself upon others (he is the
Leatherface of the group). They live in
complete obscurity from the rest of the town but instead of cannibals they
experiment on the people they abduct.
The film is actually better than expected as the film is
anchored by the performances of Adams and Lovell who have great chemistry with one another for
a couple having an affair and Adams and J.W. Perra (as Myron) have equally
great chemistry in their scenes. The
makeup effect are great and the film is better than most of the average Full
Moon films. The film also has a whit to
it missing from these types of films that are aware of themselves giving it a
charm that makes it worth seeking out if you haven’t already seen it.
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