Head in a Box
These are movies that show a severed human head in a box or some other container - a bag, a basket, a jar, a refrigerator, wrapped up in cloth, etc.
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- DirectorDavid FincherStarsMorgan FreemanBrad PittKevin SpaceyTwo detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives.Spoiler Alert
After he surrenders himself to the police, John Doe, the seven deadly sins killer, has the head of Detective Mills' wife delivered to Mills in a cardboard box. This makes Mills so mad it triggers Doe's seventh and final sin killing, Wrath, when Mills shoots John Doe and kills him. - DirectorTom SchulmanStarsJoe PesciAndy ComeauKristy SwansonMob bag-man Tommy Spinelli finds that his luggage, containing the proof of his gang's latest hit, has been switched with a bag belonging to college student Charlie who is on a Mexican vacation with his girlfriend Laurie and her parents.A man is told to deliver 8 severed human heads in a duffel bag or die.
- DirectorLiliana CavaniStarsDirk BogardeCharlotte RamplingPhilippe LeroyA concentration camp survivor rekindles her sadomasochistic relationship with an ex-SS officer working as a night porter at a Vienna hotel, but his former associates begin stalking them.A Nazi officer torments and protects a woman in a concentration camp. To show her that he has gotten rid of a man who was bullying her, he presents her with the man's severed head in a box.
- DirectorRené Cardona Jr.StarsAnjanette ComerHugo StiglitzZulma FaiadA wealthy playboy kidnaps and murders young women, feeding their corpses to his horde of felines.A psychotic millionare playboy lures women to his castle for sex, then kills them and feeds their bodies to a large room full of house cats. He keeps the women's heads in transparent boxes filled with liquid in his weapons and trophy room, along with an empty box waiting for his next victim.
- DirectorErnest R. DickersonStarsRutger HauerIce-TCharles S. DuttonA homeless man is hired as a survival guide for a group of wealthy businessmen on a hunting trip in the mountains, unaware that they are killers who hunt humans for sport, and that he is their new prey.A group of rich men bring homeless people to a cabin in the wilderness, then release them to hunt and kill them for sport. We see jars containing their victim's heads on shelves in a trophy room
- DirectorAntonio BanderasStarsMelanie GriffithDavid MorseLucas BlackAn abused wife heads to California to become a movie star while her nephew back in Alabama has to deal with a racially-motivated murder involving a corrupt sheriff.A woman kills and decapitates her husband, puts his head in a hat box and takes it to Hollywood, as she hears it talking to her.
- DirectorSharad PatelStarsJoseph OlitaThomas BaptisteLeonard TrolleyThe chronicle of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin and his tyranic rule from 1971 to his overthrow in 1979.The freezer door on top of a refrigerator is opened to reveal two severed human heads inside.
- DirectorWes AndersonStarsRalph FiennesF. Murray AbrahamMathieu AmalricA writer encounters the owner of an aging high-class hotel, who tells him of his early years serving as a lobby boy in the hotel's glorious years under an exceptional concierge.An evil henchman kills a woman and delivers her severed head in a basket. The head is lifted out of the basket by her hair.
- DirectorLuc BessonStarsSasha LussHelen MirrenLuke EvansBeneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government assassins.The KGB capture an American spy, cut off her head and mail it in a box to her agency, to send them a message. When a man opens the box we see her head inside it and we also see 8 more identical unopened mailed boxes on his desk that contain the severed heads of 8 more American spies.
- DirectorPatrice ChéreauStarsIsabelle AdjaniDaniel AuteuilJean-Hugues AngladeYoung Queen Margot finds herself trapped in an arranged marriage amidst a religious war between Catholics and Protestants. She hopes to escape with a new lover, but finds herself imprisoned by her powerful and ruthless family.After he is beheaded in the Bastille, Margot wraps up her lover's severed head in a cloth and carries it on her lap as she flees in a coach.
- DirectorNobuhiko ÔbayashiStarsKimiko IkegamiMiki JinboKumiko ÔbaA schoolgirl and six of her classmates travel to her aunt's country home, which turns out to be haunted.We see a young girl's severed head in a bucket and another severed head in a jar.
- DirectorWill CowanStarsWilliam ReynoldsAndra MartinJeffrey StoneA psychically gifted young woman discovers a centuries-old crate buried on her aunt's ranch. Opening it, her family discovers the living head of Gideon Drew, a 16th century devil worshiper who was beheaded by Sir Francis Drake.The living severed head of a devil-worshipper is found a centuries-old crate.
- DirectorKim Jee-woonStarsLee Byung-hunChoi Min-sikJeon Gook-hwanA secret agent exacts revenge on a serial killer through a series of captures and releases.Korean police find a woman's severed head and put it in a cardboard box. A man trips when he is carrying the box and the head falls out.
- DirectorMichael AptedStarsWilliam HurtLee MarvinBrian DennehyA Moscow police officer investigates a vicious triple homicide and stumbles upon a high-level international political conspiracy.Several faceless corpses without fingerprints have their heads removed in a university lab to attempt to re-construct their faces to find out who they were. The heads are carried into the lab in cardboard boxes.
- DirectorJonathan DemmeStarsJodie FosterAnthony HopkinsScott GlennA young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.When searching for the identity of a serial killer, FBI agent Clarice finds a severed human head in a jar in a car inside a large storage space.
- DirectorStuart GordonStarsJeffrey CombsBruce AbbottBarbara CramptonAfter an odd new medical student arrives on campus, a dedicated local and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue.We see a living severed human head in a metal pan in a laboratory.
- DirectorMarjane SatrapiStarsRyan ReynoldsGemma ArtertonAnna KendrickA likable guy pursues his office crush with help from his evil talking pets, but things turn sinister when she stands him up for a date.Jerry stores the severed head of Fiona, a woman he killed, in his refrigerator. Then Fiona's head talks to him, telling him she needs company. He then puts two more severed women's heads in his fridge, that also talk to him.
- DirectorScott SpiegelStarsLiz KernRenée EstevezDan HicksThe overnight stock crew of a local supermarket find themselves being stalked and slashed by a mysterious maniac.A homicidal maniac is killing off the night workers in a market. We see the head of one of his victims stored in a refrigerator.
- DirectorDavid BradleyStarsAudrey CaireWalter StockerCarlos RivasNazi madmen preserve Hitler's brain on a small tropical island until the time is right to resurrect him and, along with him, the Third Reich.Hitler's severed head is put in a glass container and shipped to South America.
- DirectorJoseph GreenStarsJason EversVirginia LeithAnthony La PennaA doctor experimenting with transplant techniques keeps his girlfriend's head alive when she is decapitated in a car crash, then goes hunting for a new body.A woman's severed head is kept alive in a pan in a laboratory.
- DirectorSam PeckinpahStarsWarren OatesIsela VegaRobert WebberAn American barroom pianist and his prostitute girlfriend go on a trip through the Mexican underworld to collect the bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.Alfredo Garcia's severed head is carried in a bag.
- DirectorDaryl DukeCurtis HansonStarsElliott GouldChristopher PlummerSusannah YorkA timid bank teller anticipates a bank robbery and steals the money himself before the crook arrives. When the sadistic crook realizes he's been fooled, he tracks down the teller and engages him in a cat-and-mouse chase for the cash.A woman's head is cut off on the broken glass of an aquarium and falls into the aquarium. When he finds it, the aquarium's owner puts the head in a plastic bag and leaves it in the water.
- DirectorPhilip KaufmanStarsGeoffrey RushKate WinsletJoaquin PhoenixIn a Napoleonic era insane asylum, an inmate, the irrepressible Marquis De Sade, fights a battle of wills against a tyrannically prudish doctor.We see a large basket containing several severed heads underneath a guillotine.
- DirectorBaltasar KormákurStarsDenzel WashingtonMark WahlbergPaula PattonTwo hardened criminals get into trouble with the US border patrol after meeting with a Mexican drug lord, and then revelations start to unfold.A man who stole from a criminal cartel is killed and his severed head is put in a bowling bag.
- DirectorMel GibsonStarsMel GibsonSophie MarceauPatrick McGoohanScottish warrior William Wallace leads his countrymen in a rebellion to free his homeland from the tyranny of King Edward I of England.Scottish rebel William Wallace kills the King of England's nephew and sends his severed head to the King in a container.
