Retro Movie Adventures: Head (1968)

Monkees is the craziest peoples!

Mike looks shocked.
Micky looks at Mike. 
Peter looks at Micky.
The top of Davy's head just sits there.
The Monkees, looking at the camera,  standing around a small Civil War era cannon. the cannon is pointed toward the camera. The Monkees are colored normally, but everything around them is blue and bright green.

It must have been wild to be one of the half-dozen fans of The Monkees’ TV show who managed to find a showing of this movie, went in expecting a long-form version of the show, and getting this wild experimental film. It doesn’t always work, but that’s why they call them experiments.

Fun fact: This movie uses footage from TV and movies including the film The Black Cat, which I recently watched! EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED.

Sometimes it’s hard to pick a source for the fake poster, and sometimes I watch a movie called The Monkey a day before I watch a movie starring The Monkees. And yes, Jack Nicholson really was the top-listed writer for Head. Easy Rider was funded by Monkee movie money.

A custom movie poster for Head parodying the poster for The Monkey. A black background.
Text in the top left reads:
STARRING
THE
MONKEES
WRITTEN BY
JACK
NICHOLSON
DIRECTED BY
BOB
RAFELSON

Across the center the word HEAD (the title of the movie) is written in large red letters.

Two-thirds of the way down the left side , text reads:
NOBODY EVER LENDS MONEY
TO A MAN WITH
A SENSE OF HUMOR

The bottom right corner, partially obscured by the title of the movie,
Mike Nesmith head looks out at the camera. His right shoulder is visible. He is wearing a pink work shirt.

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