Cold Head

A brief, jarring descent into morbid obsession, mixing crude shocks with dreamlike detachment that leaves you unsettled and slightly queasy.

Directed by

Patrick Hella

Genres

Horror

Starring

Christian Chaix, To Katinaki, Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

Overview

Shots of a car speeding down the road are intercut with kinky sex flashes (a woman with a whip rides a guy, for instance). Then the car crashes into a tree, the male driver (Christian Chaix) is decapitated and the bloody, injured female (Marie-Paule Mailleux) scoops up his head and returns to her home. There, she cleans herself and the head off, prepares dinner for herself and the head, buys the head a Ken Doll to keep it company, puts the head on a mannequin's body and then has a series of strange hallucinations, which include having sex with her bloodied lover, dancing in a room by herself with a spotlight, etc. Things culminate in her having sex with the head and then throwing it into the trash bin.

How it feels

Eerie, dark, absurd and bleak. Measured and demanding.

About

Obsession, madness, death, grief

Content

Strong violence, gore and sexual content. No swearing.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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