Wayne (played by Paul McCloskey) and Andrea (played by Barbara Lessin) Montgomery are your typical husband and wife. They bicker from time to time, but both enjoy murder and ginger ale. Wayne has an obsession with filming all his murders. Andrea likes to watch her husband commit these murders as long as he doesn’t make such a huge mess. While Wayne cuts his victims to pieces, Andrea plays as his cameraman while nagging in the background.
Head Case is a mockumentary which plays as the found home movies of the Montgomery family. Early in the film we get a glimpse of Andrea fooling around with their son and daughter. We get the impression that they are your typical American family but with a title like Head Case, you know this isn’t the case. The footage cuts from “regular” conversations Wayne and Andrea have as a couple, to images of gore and sadism. Those very images are interrupted by footage of Wayne looking over his mess left behind from his homicidal sprees. At some point Monica Montgomery, their daughter, comes down to the basement without knocking. Privacy must be a huge issue in this home as we then witness Wayne murder (kind of, since the angle is so bad) his daughter. Wayne and Andrea show no remorse for their actions and their son Todd doesn’t buy that his sister is missing.
I’m a fan of the found footage technique, a technique that has become somewhat of a sub-genre in Horror, but I found myself having a hard time liking this film. While the idea is a very good one, the film itself is done wrong. The problem with Head Case, besides the terrible acting and dialogue, are the leads. The Montgomery’s were more annoying than creepy. Wayne and Andrea didn’t convince me as being capable of murdering anyone, either. In fact, they must not have convinced the director (AnthonySpadacinni) either, since you never really see Wayne or Andrea kill. The film skips to Wayne already torturing the dead or wounded bodies. Spadacinni takes the easy route out and leaves us to believe that they capture all their victims with spiked ginger ale. There is even an unintentionally funny scene when Andrea tells their next victim that she would cure his cotton mouth with her special blend. By this time I found myself hoping that Andrea could provide me with some of her famous ginger ale so I could pass out too.
