Paul Andrews Headhunter is set in Miami where homicide detective Pete Giullani (Wayne Crawford) is having personal problems, his wife Denise (June Chadwick) has left him for a woman. Add that to the fact that a sicko serial killer is running around the city decapitating Nigerian people & he's not having a good time of it, is he? He, & his partner Katherine Hall (Kay Lenz), investigates the brutal & seemingly motiveless murders when some crazy dude named Professor Samuel Juru (Sam Williams) claims that an ancient Nigerian tribal demon (or some crap like that) is stalking those who have escaped from it's homeland to America &, well it wants to kill them & anyone that gets in it's way basically. Pete & Katherine are determined to find this monster or lose their heads trying...This South African production was directed Francis Schaeffer & is a rather bland, forgettable & tedious experience to sit through. The script by Len Spinell tries to mix a Friday the 13th (1980) style slasher with a police thriller & ends up as neither particularly. The character's are dull, the dialogue is stiff & boring & as a whole the film just doesn't gel together that well. It's slow & not that much actually happens in it. The murders are few & far between, this creature is also able to possess other people's bodies which would give it so much power it's untrue but what does it decide to do with this ability? It sets out to kill one cop who's after it, it could take over anyone's body & do literally anything it wants & all it does is try to kill one single bloke. It doesn't have much imagination does it? Or should that be the guy who wrote this doesn't have much imagination? Even though the end features chainsaws, magical swords, dismemberment & a demon it finishes off with an awful sequel driven final shot. There are much better films out there.Director Schaeffer pulls off a few nice camera moves here & there but generally speaking the look of Headhunter is as bland & forgettable as the rest of it. There are a few decapitated heads & dead sacrificial animals but apart from that there isn't much blood or gore, when the demon makes an appearance at the end it looks rather rubbery & is obviously just a man in a badly fitting rubber suit.Technically Headhunter is OK & is even quite impressive on occasion but these moments are few & far between. The acting is as dull & lifeless as the script.I suppose I would sum things up by saying that Headhunter is one of those films that hasn't got anything major wrong with it but it's just that it's so forgettable & bland that I doubt I'll remember any of it by the end of the week. One to watch only if your desperate.

Vomitron_G Damn, it's sad to see a movie fail so miserably when you can just feel the potential it had. This easily could have been a decent modern-day horror-flick about voodoo and an interesting demon on the loose chopping off heads. At least in two or three scenes there's a bit of suspense to be felt (I admit, it's not that much, but still...) and the demon's make-up is decent. The fact that he runs around decapitating people is a nice bonus too. However...I always admire the fact when scriptwriters of horror-stories try to give the main characters a bit of background (that doesn't happen much in horror). But here it really is a bit too much. I mean, the cop's ex-wife turned out to be lesbian, so then he starts hitting on his female partner who's dating a fellow-cop which wants to spend more quality time with her? Come on. Instead they should have made the demon a much bigger and menacing character. Where does he come from? Why and by who is he summoned? Why does he chop off all those heads of seemingly unrelated victims? Are there more of his kind? Nothing do we learn about this demon. But he does look cool. And he also seems to be able to shape-shift, but that concept isn't really worked out either.For a moment it looked like this movie was going to have a suspenseful bloody end fight. The set-up was present but the fight is over before you know it. What a waste. Even the over-all acting wasn't too bad. You can easily sit through this flick, but you'll forget about it as easily. So don't bother. But if you have a thing for sword-swinging demons then I won't stop ya.

Movie Nuttball Headhunter is is good horror movie that stars Kay Lenz and Wayne Crawford! The killings are gruesome! It has good music and the Headhunter demon is very neat! it wasn't suppose to be funny but I thought the scene with the preacher was funny and it seemed like his voice was dubbed! I was funny when he said "I'm never coming back to this (curses) river again!I feel this movie needs more attention that it has received! I don't want to spoil it for you in case you haven't seen the movie and if you haven't rent it because its a good horror movie!

brandonsites1981 A cop (Wayne Crawford) whose wife is having an affair on him finds himself facing off against an African demon that has just arrived in the USA and is cutting off everyone's head. Kay Lenz is his partner and love interest. This film is very crudely made and lifelessly acted, but somehow or another it manages to move along at such a fast pace and also manages to be very entertaining and exciting the entire running time that you really don't care.