Trail of the Screaming Forehead

This film pays a loving homage to classic B-movies with its wild premise of aliens called "foreheads" attaching to people's heads and transforming them into bizarrely powerful entities. As these aliens gradually take over a small American town, the locals face a series of absurd and comical challenges. The movie is filled with ridiculous scenarios, dry one-liners, and over-the-top action, making it a hilariously entertaining experience. Its embrace of B-movie tropes, combined with its sheer oddity, makes it an impressively watchable gem that celebrates the charm of so-bad-it's-good cinema.

Now I need to find Lost Skeleton of Cadavra from this director.

Another movie that I had never heard about, as I stumbled upon it here in 2025. And with it being a movie that I had never seen, much less actually heard about, of course I had to check it out. Perhaps I had been missing out on a grand sci-fi comedy gem here.

This was definitely one of the weirder movies I've seen in some time. Not that it was all bad, not at all, because the script and storyline was so strange, bizarre and far out there that it was actually oddly enjoyable and watchable. But it does require you to have a certain, odd sense of humor to fully appreciate and enjoy the script that writer Larry Blamire penned down.

The dialogue in the movie was strange to say the least.

The acting performances in the movie were fair. There were some familiar faces on the cast list, with the likes of Daniel Roebuck, Dick Miller, James Karen and Kevin McCarthy.

The effects in the movie were laughably bad, especially the fake foreheads, adding to the overall campy atmosphere of the movie.

My rating of writer and director Larry Blamire's 2007 movie "Trail of the Screaming Forehead" lands on a four out of ten stars.

This movie is a great spoof to the old sci-fi 50s movies. James Karen and Brian Howe play two great characters. From the opening song to the end 'bell routine', it had me laughing the whole way through. It is full off wit, play on words, and great color saturation. The cheesy special effects make it even more funny, especially with the makeshift spacecraft in the opening scene. The idea of hiding the foreheads is hilarious since it is painfully obvious who has been attacked and who hasn't. The best characters are the sailors who have great chemistry on the screen. If you like Larry Blamire and old sci-fi flicks then you'll love this movie. It's a must see for the whole family.

I just was at the world premiere of The Trail of the Screaming Forehead at the Seattle International Film Festival (2007), and it was terrific! I was afraid that The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra would be a hard act to follow (probably the funniest movie of the new millennium)…but they did it! The writing was sharp and funny, the acting was spot-on, the cinematography was great (surreal primaries and pastels of the 1960s), even the score and lyrics were good! The audience was laughing from start to end. Larry Blamire, Jennifer Blaire, Dan Conroy and Trish Geiger were on hand for the Q&A (also very funny). And the film has special treats like animation from Ray Harryhausen, and cameos from movie icons like Dick Miller and Kevin McCarthy. Go see this movie when it comes to your town, buy it when it comes out on DVD!

I accidentally found Lost Skeleton of Cadavera while channel surfing one day. It became one of my top five favorite movies. I anxiously awaited Lost Skeleton Returns Again and found it to be trying hard to recapture the magic of its predecessor. Trail of the Screaming Forehead seemed to me to be doing the same. I did get a few chucks and one or two "laugh out louds" but I think that was because I knew what to expect. Now I get Larry Blamire and his "so stupid its funny" approach, however in this movie sometimes it worked and sometimes it just didn't. The actors seem less straight faced and tend to get a bit silly at times, even leaving the motivation within motivation that the actors used in Lost Skeleton (Andrew Parks is quoted as saying he imagined himself as an actor who viewed as his most important roll ever).

All thing considered I did enjoy the movie because this is the kind of humor that I enjoy. It will have a cult following I'm sure, and I will watch it again just to notice those little gems I'd missed the first time, just like the first two that I've seen.