“The Head Incident” is essentially an elaborate home movie from James Rolfe, who would go on to achieve some fame with the popular “Angry Video Game Nerd” internet series. This is not a bad movie when you consider just how small the budget must have been. It looks incredibly amateurish but it does an okay job considering the limited tools that were available.

A man having a psychiatric evaluation tells the story of how he has been haunted by a disembodied head of a ventriloquist dummy and a shadowy figure in black. The movie jumps from flashback sequences, which are mostly in black and white, to present sequences in the psychiatric evaluation.

The acting in this movie is not good by any stretch of the imagination. Two of the characters seem like stoner buddies. They talk like Wayne and Garth in “Wayne’s World”. James Rolfe plays a couple of characters in the movie. I definitely prefer him doing the aggressive reviews of videogames on the internet. The shadowy man is surprisingly sinister. The dummy head looks relatively creepy. I think the black and white helps create more of atmosphere during the scenes with the man in black and the dummy.

The movie feels like a cross between an episode of “The Twilight Zone” or the movie “Magic” and “Wayne’s World”. I know the movie does not take itself too seriously but some of the dialog is really bad. The characters are not engaging. The best thing about the movie is that it is somewhat effective in terms of the suspense aspect. Don’t go into this expecting much; this is a film made with virtually no money by a few friends. If you want a good thriller with a dummy then check out “Magic” with Anthony Hopkins as that’s a movie that doesn’t get enough credit.