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This Movie Used a Real Human Head as a Prop (and It Took Decades for Anyone to Notice)

The head was authenticated and repatriated to the General Consulate of Ecuador 40 years later

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The 1979 black comedy Wise Blood stars Brad Dourif—best known for providing the voice of Chucky in Child’s Play—as Hazel Motes, a war veteran and founder of the irreligious Church of Truth Without Christ. After returning from the army, Hazel decides to become a sidewalk preacher and encounters a number of strange characters along the way. One of those people is Enoch Emory (played by Dan Shor), a newcomer to the city looking for something to believe in. At one point, Enoch takes Hazel to a museum, where he shows him a man’s shrunken corpse.

Enoch later........

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