Never really saw Spielberg’s Twilight Zone type show Amazing Stories but I have seen this one episode called “Go to the Head of the Class”. It was directed by Robert Zemeckis (Death Becomes Her) and is about two high school kids (one of which is Mary Stuart Masterson (Radioland Murders)) that don’t like one of their teachers, Christopher Lloyd (Walk Like a Man), so they decide to cast a spell on him. Fortunately for us shit doesn’t go quite right and they end up causing the teacher’s head to come loose from the rest of his body. But the head and body are still alive and he chases the two kids around a bit.
This one has a couple of things going for it like an over the top performance from Christopher Lloyd who plays a real asshole, this being made back when Zemeckis was doing interesting movies with zany concepts (chronologically this was right after the first Back to the Future), the camera work and special effects are clever when it gets to the decapitation part, I think the whole thing comes off actually kinda creepy and it’s only about 45 mins long (remember this was for TV).
This is just a little Halloween tidbit that I thought you guys should know about.
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