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Movie Info

After drifting through various towns for 20 years, George Walker (Vince Mola) returns to his childhood hometown hoping to establish a stable life. Moving in to the empty house that used be his grandmother's, he struggles to make it habitable as his neighbors Julian Thompson (Jamil Mangan) and Chester Jackson (Jim Sullivan) look on suspiciously. Following a severe head injury, George begins having nightmares and hallucinations in which traumatic images from his past commingle with the present.

Genre:

horror, mystery and thriller
Original Language:

English
Director:

Lance Weiler
Producer:

John Stefanic
Writer:

Lance Weiler, Brian Majeska
Release Date (Streaming):

Mar 20, 2017
Runtime:

1h 24m

Cast & Crew

Vince Mola
George Walker

Jamil Mangan
Julian Thompson

Mary Monahan
Mary Sherman

Meryl Lynn Brown
Roberta Thompson

Brandee Sanders
Susie

Jim Sullivan
Chester Jackson

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Critic Reviews for Head Trauma

All Critics (2) | Fresh (2)

Like the films of Polanski and Nicolas Roeg, "Head Trauma" is a slow burn movie, the kind which gradually pulls you deeper and deeper into its own twisted reality.

May 5, 2008 | Rating: 7/10

Brian Holcomb
PopMatters
Much of the time you're guessing what's real and what's not, but it's not done in such a way that you're lost and confused. Instead there's this creepy vibe that crawls across your skin.

August 13, 2007 | Full Review…

Ryan Cracknell
Calgary Movies

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Audience Reviews for Head Trauma

Jul 17, 2010

In the classic Cat People, Jacques Tourneur played on our fears by capitalizing on ambiguity, terrorizing audiences with a deadly predator that remains sight unseen. In the legendary Jaws, Steven Spielberg played on our fears by capitalizing on our overactive imaginations, frightening audiences with a deadly predator that remains mostly sight unseen. With the psychological thriller Head Trauma, director Lance Weiler's plays on our fears by giving us a mind-bending Rosharch Test in which the protagonist - and the audience by proxy - spirals into a terrifying dreamstate where reality, like ink-blots, evolves out of what we think is seen. After a 20 year absence, a drifter with a troubled past (Mola), returns home to settle his grandmother's estate, only to find that her house is scheduled for demolition. As he tries to save his legacy from the wrecking ball with the help of some friends (Mangan, Monahan), a series of disturbing nightmares threatens to unravel a deeply repressed secret involving a mysterious young woman (Brandee Sanders). Like Tourneur and Speilberg in the early stage of their careers, Weiler has a limited bag of tricks due to a restrictive budget, but resourcefully uses it well. Having honed his skills well on the cunning shocker The Last Broadcast, he shuffles the base aesthetics and a tricked-out soundtrack into a scary-as-hell narrative that seems almost epic, if only because he is playing with our own skewered perception. The fine cast fires on all cylinders, making the tale all the scarier because they look so terrifyingly, well, normal. Weiler learned well: An audience certainly does not need an airbrushed Sarah Michelle Gellar crawling around in leather pants to signify ultimate terror. Bottom line: Get some Head.

Jeff B Super Reviewer
Feb 03, 2007

I could be locked in a room for fifty years, with no audio or visual stimulation of any kind, and wake up one morning and see a television playing this movie and I'd still turn it off halfway through.

Christopher B Super Reviewer