The Amazing Screw-On Head

TV Movie
2005
Not Rated
22m

IMDb RATING

7.7/10

2.2K

YOUR RATING

Home Video Trailer from Lionsgate Home Entertainment

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A Civil War-era secret agent with an extraordinary special power serves under president Abraham Lincoln protecting America from supernatural foes. Unsold animated TV pilot adapted from a sho... Read allA Civil War-era secret agent with an extraordinary special power serves under president Abraham Lincoln protecting America from supernatural foes. Unsold animated TV pilot adapted from a short comic book from the creator of Hellboy.A Civil War-era secret agent with an extraordinary special power serves under president Abraham Lincoln protecting America from supernatural foes. Unsold animated TV pilot adapted from a short comic book from the creator of Hellboy.

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

7.7/10

2.2K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Mr. Groin
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Corey Burton

Mindy Sterling

Aggie
(voice)
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Molly Shannon

Patience the Vampire
(voice)

Director
- Chris Prynoski
Writers
- Bryan Fuller
- Mike Mignola
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Trivia
The comic book story from which the animation was based finished with four random drawings of three horrible old women (labeled as "werewolf", "cannibal" and "criminal lunatic") and a monkey. The monkey and two of these women are featured in the animation as actual characters, the woman left out being the 'criminal lunatic'.

Goofs
Screw-On Head meets with President Lincoln in the Oval Office of the West Wing, which began construction in 1902. William Howard Taft was the first president to use it in 1909. Abraham Lincoln's office was a rectangular room, now known as the Lincoln Bedroom, on the second floor of the White House.

Quotes
Screw-On Head: It's as I always say, all really intelligent people should be cremated for reasons of public safety.

Connections
Featured in The Mechanical Man (2011)

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Featured review

10/10

Calling Screw-On Head! We need you!

If you missed Amazing Screw-On Head from Sci-Fi channel, then rent, buy or download it now! This short animated film is brilliant, hilarious, and perfectly employs the visual textures and grimy, baroque aesthetic of Mike Mignola's world. It uses elements of Lovecraft, Universal Monsters, steampunk mecha, and Wild Wild West to plunge the viewer into a completely absorbing adventure.

Amazing Screw-On Head is stylistically superior to both the 2004 live-action Hellboy and the 2006 Hellboy Animated: Sword of Storms. This production has more in common with Mignola's concept work on Bram Stoker's Dracula, Blade II, and Disney's Atlantis. His monsters are both horrific and lovable, his hero is upright (when attached to his body), and his villains are truly sinister.

Attn Cartoon Network and Sci-Fi: Screw-On Head should be a template for future Hellboy and BPRD animated specials.