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This Movie Used a Real Human Head as a Prop (and It Took Decades for Anyone to Notice)

VICE·Tony Alpsen·28 days ago
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The 1979 black comedy Wise Blood stars Brad Dourif—best known for providing the voice of Chucky in Child’s Play —as Hazel Motes, a war veteran and founder of the irreligious Church of Truth Without Christ. After returning from the army, Hazel decides to become a sidewalk preacher and encounters a number of strange characters along the way. One of those people is Enoch Emory (played by Dan Shor), a newcomer to the city looking for something to believe in. At one point, Enoch takes Hazel to a museum, where he shows him a man’s shrunken corpse. Enoch later steals the corpse from the museum, believing it to be the new Jesus. He delivers it to Hazel’s girlfriend, who dresses up like the Virgin Mary and poses with it in front of Hazel. This angers Hazel, and he grabs the shrunken man from her, smashing it against the wall and detaching its head from its shoulders. Hazel then picks up the head and throws it out of the window for good measure. Videos by VICE The Shrunken Head in Wise Blood Wasn’t a Prop.…

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