Eye Candy #350 - "The Amazing Screw-On Head"

The Amazing Screw-On Head:  Fans of Mike Mignola and both his live-action and animated "Hellboy" work will love this short adaptation (a pilot episode made for the Sci-Fi Channel) of a one-shot comic produced in 2002. The Amazing Screw-On Head is a talking metal head in the service of Abraham Lincoln, and is called into the action by the President to fight Emporer Zombie. So Head screws himself into a robot body and away we go, with vampires, werewolves, zombies, and elder gods galore, with the help of his manservant Mr. Groin and his dog Mr. Dog. The animated look is much closer to Mignola's original style than the "Hellboy" cartoons (which goes to show how impractical talking is for some of his characters). The voice talent is high B-list - Paul Giamatti is Head and David Hyde Pierce is Emporer Zombie, with Molly Shannon and Patton Oswalt in supporting roles. This is just silliness, but it's fun silliness and a faithful adaptation of its source material.