Found (2012)
AKA: –
Year: 2012
Directed by: Scott Schirmer
Starring: Gavin Brown (Marty), Ethan Philbeck (Steve), Phyllis Munro (Mom), Louie Lawless (Dad), Shane Beasley (Killer in ‘Headless’ movie)
Country: United States
Language: English (English subtitles)
Runtime: 01:42:49
Genres: Gore-Gruesome-Splatter, Sexual-Violence against Women, Torture, Racism, Serial Killers, Siblings-Family
Plot:
Marty is a kid with a troubling secret. His brother Steve is a serial killer with a preference for black women, whose heads he stores in a bowling bag in the closet. Though Marty has a morbid curiosity and often peeks at the heads when his brother isn’t around, he lives in fear of his head being next in line.
Marty feels isolated from his parents, is often bullied at school and doesn’t really have anyone to talk to about his secret. His only friend David, picks and chooses when he hangs out with him, and so Marty spends his days and nights listening to radio shows or watching horror flicks.
One day, he stumbles on a movie in Steve’s video collection called ‘Headless’, that appears to offer insight into his brother’s parallel life…
Found has some pretty effed up scenes involving women and their heads and the movie within it, ‘Headless’ gained so much attention, that a few years later, a separate movie, Headless was made based on it.
I think maybe you guys (as fellow effedupmovie goers) are missing an important point in all this critique: whether you went “wow that was fucked up” at the end. I didn’t expect a classy movie experience when I watched this, I expected to see some fucked up stuff. And I did!
Mind-blowing and gory and glorious and exquisitely human and flawed! That nigger be to faggot as racism is to homophobia reads as a truly suburban ratio harkening back to the 90’s and early 2000’s. Remember? Sexuality is on the inside and skin is on the outside and yet both are as inescapable as a serial murderer because dismemberment breaks down the essential difference. And so we are shocked by scenes of necrophilia and decapitated skull-fucking even though that’s the way things really are, deep down and inside out, if you think about it. At least according to the people that made this deeply heartfelt movie. How at the same time it contains one of the single most horrifying erections I have ever seen speaks to the brilliance of this work as a genuine expression of purely cinematic strength. For every Evan Peters, there’s a Gavin Brown eating eyeballs somewhere less known and less funded, which, for me, describes the obvious and parasitic awkwardness of big-budget cinema’s idea of inspiration. Take for example a black woman’s head in a white man’s bowling ball bag. The life threatening mundanity of middle school and suburban helplessness and tyranny and injustice side-steps petulance and culturally safe expressions in gruesome favor of blood guzzling horror, which universal anger is ashamed to understand.
justice for marty he deserved so much better
Annoying subs. Why sub a film in English that’s already in English?
now all I can think about is how much I want and need a big brother like Steve :/
Should I have watched this before headless?
i used to have this on dvd but cant find it
I definitely don’t like the acting and the whole movie sounds like a public service announcement but i love the concept. Could have been a masterpiece.
whose fucking kids are these LMAO imagine being like 9 and being in the head fucking franchise
Yo, this is so mf good, for real. Sure, the budget is low, but it wasn’t sloppy. Schirmer did all he could with all he had.
Very minor spoilers ahead:
The story is top tier. Even the actors were great and realistic, with Louie Lawless being the weakest of them in just a couple of scenes. Then having actors act in a ‘B’ fashion during the movies within the movie. Perfect.
There’s so much depth here. Even the very controversial elements weren’t without reason.
These are the kinds of gems I always hope to stumble upon.
Solid 8/10 bowling ball bags
Not a huge fan of exploitation films showing movies just as gory as the events happening in the movie. Takes away from the gore happening in the story.
I supposed the serial killer is based on Ed Kemper? Also I’ve been wondering the whole time…wouldn’t the spin be poking him when he fucks the skull in the neck?
Would this had more money put into it, it would have been glorious. A great story trapped in a low budget film.
SPOILERS
This would have been a lot better with most of the boring first hour removed, but even after that the film fails to deliver.
All we needed to see was the two kids watching the HEADLESS vhs tape, then cut to the young brother thrashing the kid who was mocking him (here the filming annoyingly cuts away from the action).
Only after this point in the last half hour does the film get really interesting, but then once again, when the eldest son is taking out his anger on his parents, the film cuts away and all we get to see is the young brother squirming and crying! It was as if someone originally had a brilliant idea to make a really good bloody gory movie, but then during filming had decided not to bother filming what would have been the best parts. What a waste.
My favorite movie of all time.
Based big brother lmao
An Oscar-caliber, heat-warming, soul-touching, feel-good, coming-of-age, family classic for the ages.. I laughed.. I cried.. I came away a better man with a better understanding of the struggles of adolescence and the ascension into adulthood. A true thought-provoking heartfelt cinematic love-letter to the spirit regarding the trials and tribulations of the human condition.
Dude had a strap-on lol
I love the dudes cock at the end,so errect,hard & thick….& he has the same name as me😍😍😍
This shit sucks I wanted masked men all I got was bootleg onision who chris channed his mom and may or may not have had sex with a kid’s head. 2/10 only cause the poster for it was cool
pretty good movie
Last time i got washed around like this was D.Darko
at 52:24 i suddenly realised that i am in hell
pretty sub par film, ending scene was pretty wicked though. 2/5
Despite the multiple laughable things (Marty’s hair, David’s giant moobs..) the movie was good. A neat ending that would make a great art print.
Useless sidenote: I had the identical Venom poster as a teen. LAY DOWN YOUR SOUL TO THE GODS ROCK AND ROLL!!!!! \m/ Black Metal \m/
Going to go and view Headless now.
Am I the only one who laughed at the prosthetic penis?
Very nice movie! Thanks a lot, EUM. That end was priceless, I cracked out loud with the very final sentence!
Chris Chan’s favorite film:D
This film is pretty damn lame.. bad acting.. cheesy corn chip smellin’ ass crack all around.
Great film, memorable ending as well.
pretty cool movie
I liked this film. It was poignant, sharp and disturbing, but sobering and pragmatic. Acerbic rather.
The kid acted very well, better than some of the grown ups. His older brother looks like Onision but slightly less scary.
Awesome movie……definitely worth checking out!
This movie sucks so bad. They’re tryna make it deep by adding subplots like bullying but then make them totally unbelievable and uninteresting. The relationship between brothers is stiff. Acting is cringe inducing. And most of all there is NOTHING scary about it
I honestly found this from “Headless”
but my godddd was this amazing !! such an emotional rollercoaster for me & I loved it! definitely recommend watching if severed heads don’t bother you lmao
I am left speechless at the end. EUM, you guys did it again. Great job!
Ye-ah, that loser kid and his fucked up family. Great ending tho’. Thanks Effedup.
It’s nice that there is a Wild Zero/Guitar Wolf poster on the wall.
I’ve seen this before but glad to find it here and watched it again! Thanks EUM
Another good find – thanks EUM!
why are there forced subs on every English language film?
This one was enlightening btw.
I wasn’t expecting this to be so damn enjoyable