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Header

Header (2006)

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Movie Info

Edward Lee's cult classic novella comes to the screen in this shocking tale of revenge and retribution set against the foreboding backwoods of West Virginia. Stewart Cummings (Jake Suffian) is a jaded ATF agent struggling to earn enough money to cover the pricy prescriptions required to keep his sickly girlfriend Kathy from lapsing into ill health. When the cost of Kathy's medications begins to outstrip Stewart's earnings, he begins running narcotics across the county line for a dealer named

Unrated,

Horror

Jun 30, 2009

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In its bravado and its commitment to its own perversity, it throws down a gauntlet at the rest of the genre. Make no mistake, when it comes to sheer shock value, it will be tough for other horror films to trump Header.

July 8, 2009 Full Review Source: MovieMartyr.com
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Audience Reviews for Header

For starters, don't watch Header unless you are one of my twisted film fans. Header is pure exploitation fare filled with sexual depravity, brutal violence, and a truly twisted sense of humor. Header concerns a West Virginia ATF agent whose sick girlfriend requires expensive medications to help offset her condition. To pay for her medications, the agent begins to compromise his morals and begins to slowly descend into a dark world of criminality. Simultaneously, a convict gets released from prison and reunites with his backwoods grandfather who has a strong desire for a perverse form of revenge known as a header. I won't give away what it is, although the film does early on. But I will say that it is truly depraved. Header aims for style in various parts, which it never quite achieves, but it is twisted exploitation fare at its finest: a blend of human drama with backwoods horror and completely black sense of humor coalescence into a thoroughly entertaining and brutal piece of trash.
January 13, 2012
I discovered Edward Lee a few years ago. I heard this story was one of his best, so I've been keeping tabs on the movie. I picked up a copy from Camelot books. I heard there might be a re-release of the book, which is great since the only copies i've seen go for 50 bucks.

I had no idea what a Header was. This is some SICK stuff. I'm having a screening of it on the 4th of July for a bunch of friends.

If you like sick, twisted, sexually perverse violence, then this movie is for you. I LOVE Grandpap. "You ain't worth two squirts of p*ss from a dead dog's d*ck." His character is so whacked.

Great story too. Lee really knows what he's doing when it comes to redneck horror. And the director ( Flancranstin )did a good job with it. I was shocked. You can tell it's an indie, subject matter alone, but it's got to be one of the better indies I've seen. Definitely not for the squeamish. It's nuts. And the ending was GREAT. I don't know how Lee came up with it, but I'm so glad he did.

I highly recommend seeing this flick with friends. Great time.
June 30, 2009
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