C.H Newell First thing is first: yes, the acting is fairly rough to terrible throughout Header. However, if you can bear through some of the awful acting work, it's pretty rewarding to watch something unique. Of course it's vile, but it works. Edward Lee wrote the story in 1995 (published by Glenn Danzig's comic book company), and it was bound to be made into a film by some sort of twisted mind (although I haven't read the novel): the movie adaptation has makings of a tragedy, but with a horror sensibility. We watch two stories simultaneously: ATF agent Stewart Cummings works in the backwoods of West Virginina presumably trying to keep a lid on the meth and moonshine business, and resorts to helping out some criminals while they sell big quantities of drugs so he can pay for his sick girlfriend's medicinal needs; meanwhile, Travis Tuckton is released from prison to go live with his disabled grandpa, and learns a devious backwoods revenge tradition from the old man called a 'header'. Soon, dead bodies pile up with holes in the top of their skulls, and semen-filled brains. These two men unknowingly intersect, as Cummings investigates the murders, and slowly begins to understand exactly what a 'header' is.It's absolutely hideous, and very graphic, but once again- it works. If only the acting was better this would be an absolutely horror classic. I would like to read Lee's novel, and see how the writing is compared to this script. I give it a 6 because there were a few moments where the acting wasn't atrocious, but mainly for the story, and all the dirty violence this movie contains without being any sort of apologetic for it. A raw, unflinching depiction of a crazy backwoods town from Edward Lee's imagination. 6 out of 10 stars.

haagse_junkie Just don't waste your time watching this bullsh*t movie!!!! I don't even know how the hell one would call this a movie!!! the title header just means that one dude skull-f*cks a girl just because they have beef with another family! and on the other side ( i don't know why the hell they put that story in the movie but it wouldn't make the movie better) there is some kind of a city-cop who's girlfriend is very very sick and the meds shes using are very expensive and only because of that the cop is going corrupt and goes out hustling and that kind of stuff! all in all i would say the director of this movie needs to get killed or at slapped on the back of his/her head for thinking this would be a good movie!! so if u want to waste 1.3 hours of your life and or puke, please watch this movie if not than PLEAAAAASE for the love of god or Satan or whatever, don't even bother watching this peace of sh*t bullsh*t movie!!!!!!!!

EVOL666 I originally started watching HEADER a year or so ago-but I remember being tired when I watched it and couldn't get into it-so I turned it off less than halfway through. Despite having read several of Lee's stories (though I have yet to read this one...) and being pretty hyped to see this-I found the poor acting, horrible Southern accents, and lame cinematography to be more tedious than entertaining. But just recently I started reading Lee's 'Flesh Gothic'-and it reminded me that I still had this disc laying around, so I decided to give it another shot. Travis is a scumbag redneck who gets out of jail and goes to live with his legless grandpappy in some shack in the woods. During their time of familial re-bonding, grandpappy relates the joys of the 'header' to Travis, and explains that the act is to be used as a means of revenge against those that have wronged the family. Travis becomes an enthusiastic header devotee-and starts header-ing everyone in sight. Meanwhile, there is a dirty ATF agent named Cummings who runs drugs for local dealers to help pay for his wife's expensive prescriptions. The two story lines converge when Cummings starts getting involved in the header murders...I'll start with the good. The basic plot works for what it is. Grandpap's performance (unlike anyone else's in the film...) was extremely entertaining. There is a passable amount of gore-but those that insist that this film is some sort of gore-soaked bloodbath obviously haven't seen too many gore-soaked bloodbaths. There's a couple decent sets of tits-that's always a plus. As to the bad: the acting by virtually the entire cast is weak. Travis' retardedly fake Southern accent is so horrible that he's often unintelligible. The cinematography/editing (if they can be called that) make the film look extremely amateurish. I also feel that the revenge aspects of the whole header ritual was glossed over when it came to Travis' choice of victims. Often the victims transgression against the family-resulting in the header-was explained in a quick sentence or two- almost as an aside-and oftentimes nearly or completely unintelligibly due to Travis' ridiculous accent. So what's the verdict? Upon my second attempt with HEADER, I will say that I enjoyed it more than the first time-at least to the point that I finished it. It's hard for me to judge this one because although it's relatively entertaining and despite the fact that I haven't read the source-material, I've read enough of Lee's work to see his 'spirit' in the film. Unfortunately-I just can't get past how low-budget HEADER feels. I realize that it is in fact a low- budget indie film-but I've seen many 'smaller' films do more with less. One reviewer nailed it when he mentioned the style of the opening scene and how it had a cool, vintage, degraded film-stock kind of look that would have assuredly worked much better throughout the entirety of the film, as opposed to the obviously shot-on-digital look that the rest of the film has. And even though HEADER presents some semi-graphic material-it doesn't come close to capturing in visual terms the hyper-sexuality and violence that Lee's writing exudes. Personally-I'd love to see a more experienced and ballsier film- maker do a proper adaptation of one of Lee's other works. I totally think it could be done-but it would take someone who's really willing to both cross and crush the 'line' between horror and porn in film like no one else has before. Anyway-I'm going to give HEADER a pretty lenient 7/10 for at least attempting to put this sort of material out there-even if it is a bit tame (and lame...) by comparison...

Jason Stern I thought I was ready...nope, not for this. Never in my life have I seen a film so bizarrely twisted and perverted. This film takes brutality to an entirely new place and you'd better be ready because HEADER takes no prisoners! I'm not familiar with the director, Archibald whatever, but I'm going to start following his work--its like nothing i've ever seen.If you haven't seen this movie, you're probably wondering what a header even is...you don't want to know. Just to give you a hint--if you let your mind wander, and think of the most gruesome, disgusting, horribly perverted thing to do for revenge, you wouldn't even be getting close.Your stomach will be churning so hard, you won't be able to keep your popcorn down through the first half--ITS GREAT!!! Bon Appetit!