Dawn of the Mother-F-ing Dead

Well true believers, I'm back with another Great Exploding Heads in History (add echo effect here...). The original Dawn of the Dead is a great film for gore fans out there. It's got helicopter lobotomies, neck and arm bites, a Hare Krishna zombie, scary biker and zombie pie fight and a superb exploding head. By the way: the head pop is pretty close to the beginning of the film as well! Is this a trend? Don't know--don't care. It's just another fine example of heads exploding made with pride in America...sans computers.

Basically, our shot begins with some nut-job Police guys all S.W.A.T.ed up storming a pretty ghetto apartment complex. One of the civilians in the building sees a guy draw a bead on her hubby/boyfriend and decides to block his shot to protect her zombiefied squeeze. A good time is had by all as out victim, the wife/girlfriend, gets her arm and neck bit all to hell! Once her blood pressure drops below fifteen, she slumps to the floor giving our Police goons a perfect shot! His head explodes--resplendent with chunky, meaty, tasty bits of head-bursting glory.

This is another great exploding head, in Great Exploding Heads in History! Brought to you today by: The US Army--blowing up heads and stuff real-good since 1802.

Scanners

David Cronenberg is one whacked out Canadian. Almost every movie the guy has been involved with has some sort of anus typewriter, a cancer-gun, giant phallic do-dads or AWESOME exploding heads. Scanners has one of the best exploding heads in film and it happens in the first ten minutes of the flick.

This guy is on some panel and he has some kind of 'special' mental ability that allows him to scan a person's mind. Well...turns out our old buddy Michael Ironside, who plays Darryl Revok, a sick and twisted naughty Scanner with the ability to blow someones nugget into warm, pink mist, volunteers to be scanned by our bespectacled victim. Our hapless nerd Scanner, tries to scan Ironside but is forcible scanned himself! Hilarity ensues as his melon explodes like a pinata. Scanners are wicked cool. They can set you on fire, burst your organs, fry your brain, read your mind or even influence folks. Being a Scanner would be awesome.

Our exploding head is pure physical special effects bliss. Master FX artist, Dick Smith [http://www.dicksmithmake-up.com/], took care of our grisly head popping. This head burst is cool because there is a HUGE flap of facial skin that stays with us and falls over the chest like a lobster bib. Also, it's cut well and you don't get the 'frozen mannequin' look that some lesser films give us. This is one of the better exploding head sequences in film. Check it out!