Head-Poppin Goodness!

[Mighty Atomic Pikachu]

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Thanx for the new board, Andrew!

Okay, first subject of mine: Exploding heads. Besides SCANNERS, there are plenty of films where people's heads Xplo-o-ODE!

Come on, I'm sure you can think of a couple...


-MAP

[Will]

Does it count if they're laser exploded?  If so, I like "Chopping Mall."

[Nathan]

Oddly enough, I just rewatched Dawn of the Dead the other night.  You just gotta watch the "shotgunned head" effect in slo-mo.

A couple of heads also explode in Blade, thanks to that anti-hemoglobin stuff.

Nathan

[Brian Ringler]

I addition to the shotgun head effect in dawn I like the one done in maniac especially since its tom himself getting his head blown up.

[Zombie Keeper]

Night of the Living Dead 1990 - The censored footage of several popping heads are terrific.

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[Zombie Keeper]

Dawn of the Dead, early in the movie when the SWAT team is in the apartment complex.

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[Scott avis]

There's a good ole head poppin' in Story of Riki-Oh!

[Gerry]

Does head-crunching goodness count?  Like in Alien Resurrection, when the Alien hybrid chomps on Brad Dourif's head?

Terminator 2, when Arnold blows a hole in Robert Patrick's head, or does that not count because it just liquid metal?

Where do you draw the line here?

Gerry

[Squishy]

Don't forget "Thunder" blowing himself up (complete with bugging eyeballs and steam spewing out of his ears) in "Big Trouble in Little China." He doesn't detonate onscreen and it's a full-body blow, but the graphic head deformation should count...

Also unshown: the live-action (and utterly, utterly awful) version of "Fist of the North Star) has a guy who is forced to keep his head tightly strapped together after Kenshiro zaps him. The strap eventually comes undone, but he squirts offscreen. The anime, of course, is full of poppin' fresh juicy goodness in color.

"Hannibal" doesn't have exploding human heads, but does display, in detail, their insides.

[Abby]

It's so obvious, but: Raiders of the Lost Ark.

[Fishbulb]

I recall in the beginning of 'The Doom Generation' a Asian man loses his head, which later starts to talk and puke some green @!#$.

[peter johnson]

The Fly!! The Fly!!  Geena Davis takes the shotgun to Brindlefly with a spraying-spam effect & Gothic music.  Easily my favorite exploding head --

[Phantom 187]

In "Doll Man" the gun he uses can blow a shotgun size wound in a human but you should see what it can do to the other bad guys on his planet. The shots in this movie are funny especially since you hear only 3 gun blasts being fired but the scene itself seems to have several more explosions.

Also "Street trash" has a good scene that is on this site.

Merry Poppins,
Phantom 187

[BadTaste_nz]

You all are forgetting one major head poppin scene:

Total Recal, when the bad dude gets sucked out into mars and his eyes and head swell until the burst!! YAY

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[Squishy]

Also, a guy gets his head shoved into a trash compactor in "Intruder." Yuuuuck.