{"id":39868,"date":"2023-10-06T00:51:05","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T04:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=39868"},"modified":"2023-10-06T00:50:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T04:50:43","slug":"headless-horseman-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/06\/headless-horseman-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Headless Horseman (2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Take two cups of \u201cGhost Rider,\u201d one cup of \u201cSpawn,\u201d a dash of \u201cThe Crow,\u201d mix it up with only a fraction of the budget, and you have Jose Prendes\u2019 \u201cHeadless Horseman.\u201d The Asylum\u2019s newest mockbuster watches like an off brand comic book movie from the late nineties. It feels like something from a studio that couldn\u2019t afford Marvel\u2019s \u201cGhost Rider,\u201d so they opted for a character from an obscure indie label. If it seems like I\u2019m just mocking \u201cHeadless Horseman,\u201d I\u2019m truly not. I was surprised at how much I didn\u2019t hate it, as while the movie borrows from the aforementioned series\u2019 wholesale, it amounts to some cheesy, charming fun.<\/p>\n

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Young biker Brandon falls in love with Sophia, unaware that her abusive, gang lord ex-boyfriend Angel is stalking her. On Halloween night, after a violent confrontation, Brandon is murdered, but on his last breath begs for help. Luckily for him the devil heard his pleas and makes a pact with him. He gets his soul, but allows him twenty four hours to save Sophia, kill Angel and his cronies, and avenge his soul. Armed with supernatural powers, and deadly weapons, Brandon is on the hunt, working against the clock to complete his mission.<\/p>\n

A movie like \u201cHeadless Horseman\u201d would have been replayed four times a day on VCR as a kid. It\u2019s so goofy, and fun, and if you can cope with its inherent derivativeness amounts to a pretty entertaining revenge picture. Director Jose Prendes just goes for the throat with a movie that is stripped down and simple, but tries to squeeze as much fun out of the premise as humanly possible. It sags in some areas, including the concept and the villain, but I liked how the movie uses Halloween as a launching point for the mythos. I also quite enjoyed how every villain in the film is so diabolical and mustache twirling. Michael Pare, in his small role, completely chews the scenery as the Devil, who arrives to give main character Brandon his powers, and manipulate him at every stop.<\/p>\n

Pare just seems to be having fun, and that energy emanates through much of \u201cHeadless Horseman.\u201d I was also worried that Prendes would make a big deal out of the title character and show little to none of him in action. But surprisingly, the movie makes good on its promise, offering up a ton of fun action scenes of the flaming skulled warrior just murdering gangsters left and right. I also appreciated his kill shot where he rips his head off and smashes it on to an enemy setting them ablaze. I almost shouted \u201cFatality!\u201d While \u201cHeadless Horseman\u201d is by no means perfect, it\u2019s a lot of fun. The direction is competent, the acting is solid, and the special effects are up to par. Plus, I just love a good revenge picture. I hope we can get a sequel.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve never said that about an Asylum movie. Ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Take two cups of \u201cGhost Rider,\u201d one cup of \u201cSpawn,\u201d a dash of \u201cThe Crow,\u201d mix it up with only a fraction of the budget, and you have Jose Prendes\u2019 \u201cHeadless Horseman.\u201d The Asylum\u2019s newest mockbuster watches like an off brand comic book movie from the late nineties. It feels like something from a studio […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[58,240,391,441,477,840,897,1008],"class_list":["post-39868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-horror-month","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-crime","tag-gangster","tag-halloween","tag-horror","tag-revenge","tag-satanic","tag-supernatural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39870,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39868\/revisions\/39870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}