This Universal horror film is actually a complete disappointment that the movie posters hide through creative artwork. The discovery of a buried 400;year old head is promising, especially considering that it's allegedly the head of an evil man whose cranium and body were several among "execution" (allegedly by Sir Francis Drake) in Southern California when it was discovered that the eerie looking man was working for Beslzebub. Opening the locked chest (featuring a serious warning not to open) releases the demon from its non-resting place.
Carolyn Kearney is a guest at this farmhouse who has the psychological ability to track down metal objects telepathically and with her help, they discover the chest for some reason in the middle of the night. The head with the moving eyes and silent muttering lips can get the person looking at it to commit murder.
Of course, if it is attached to its body (which we are supposed to believe has not decomposed), it can create all sorts of evil happenings. For some reason, the head ends up in a woman's hatbox which actually makes it looks like it's in a cooking pot. Perhaps they should have just boiled it and shrunk it to the size of a California raisin, flushing it away with remaining prints of the film.. That would have been a much sweeter plot than the disaster that happens here.
Carolyn Kearney is a guest at this farmhouse who has the psychological ability to track down metal objects telepathically and with her help, they discover the chest for some reason in the middle of the night. The head with the moving eyes and silent muttering lips can get the person looking at it to commit murder.
Of course, if it is attached to its body (which we are supposed to believe has not decomposed), it can create all sorts of evil happenings. For some reason, the head ends up in a woman's hatbox which actually makes it looks like it's in a cooking pot. Perhaps they should have just boiled it and shrunk it to the size of a California raisin, flushing it away with remaining prints of the film.. That would have been a much sweeter plot than the disaster that happens here.