Tonight’s Film Fart is “Trail of the Screaming Forehead” from 2007. Filmed in craniovision. And unlike some other cinematic cesspools I’ve reviewed here, this movie has faces you might recognize, like that guy who played the evil TV station owner in the Weird Al movie “UHF,” and that guy who played a cab driver on “Spencer for Hire” in one episode. Also, I think the bartender was in Gremlins. 

So the plot is clearly based on a fever dream based on a misheard lyric of They Might Be Giants. A sentient alien forehead is taking over people’s brains in the town of Longhead Bay. No, scratch that. Taking over people's foreheads, because people think with their foreheads, not their brains. The scientist, Doctor Shiela who postulated this theory thinks that the scientific community has rejected it, because she's a woman, and not because it's horribly horribly stupid. 

Our hero big Dan Freighter, played by Brian Howe, best known for being that guy from that one thing, dons his best Skipper from Gillian’s Island costume and with his first mate stays in the local BnB to get his land legs for a day. 

But an alien forehead has taken over the body of the owner, played by that other guy from that other thing. Alien foreheads are slowly taking over the bodies of all the townspeople. 

Meanwhile, our forehead scientist is creating artificially enhanced foreheads, specifically with her fellow scientist slash lab partner, using the compound she discovered Foreheadazine.

Big Dan Freighter, his 1st mate, and first mate's crush, the local librarian Millie, starts to suspect something is amiss when they stumble upon a free-roaming forehead.

“Say that looks like a forehead.” No, it looks like the discarded foreskin of a circumcised albino rhino. Big Dan Freighter stabs a forehead with a stick and saves them all. The DRAMA!!!

Dude Scientist's forehead is slowly growing, arousing the suspicion of his wife. And the alien foreheads claim townsperson after townsperson by giving them head. 

Also Arousing suspicion is the fact everyone is checking out books on foreheads from the library, books like Doctor Seuss's Green Eggs and Foreheads, Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Forehead, Douglas Adams’s The Foreheads Guide to the Galaxy, and George Orwell 198forehead. 

So to be clear there are alien foreheads, artificially enhanced foreheads, and 100% America-made regular human foreheads and there’s warhead brewing between them or something. The alien world the foreheads come from is very similar to ours, except different. This is explained in those exact words by the only talking alien forehead.

 Also, the prosthetic forehead makes your head swell up like the Gingerdead Man (another fine flick).  Mark McGuire of foreheads feels guilty for looking at other women and also misunderstanding what his sexy lab partner meant when she promised to make his head swell. But the alien foreheads definitely look like normal foreheads and not like giant globs of silly putty stuck to someone's forehead. The prosthetic makeup artist for Trail of The Screaming Forehead is Frank Ippolito, who was a contestant  during seasons one and five on the SciFi special effects makeup reality competition series “Face-Off.”  Spoiler alert: he didn’t win. 

Thankfully before the day of the forehead is upon us, our heroes spring into action with a foolproof plan, that’s somehow not wearing a hat. But they do eventually defeat them in a similar way one would defeat attacking killer tomatoes. Apparently, the sound of ringing bells repels alien foreheads. So our trio of heroes grab every bell they can find, jingle bells, handbells, and taco bells, and chase away the aliens with a little help from the ringing of not one but two working payphones.

But alas, the alien forehead wearers are only temporarily repelled, because they went to the dollar store and bought earplugs. But the artificial forehead guy to redeem himself saves the day by pulling the fire alarm and that ringing bell kills all the non-human foreheads, including himself, but not before his forehead returns to normal. 

Perhaps the most disappointing part of Trail of the Screaming Forehead is that during the entire movie, not a single forehead screams, or even raises its voice. Especially since the movie instructs us to remember that when your forehead is screaming, it’s screaming “I love you.” Now that I think about it, there’s no trail in this either. 

Out of a possible 10 on the Shemometer, I’d give this movie a … forehead.

Trail of the Screaming Forehead is available streaming on Tubi.