- Release Date: 1997
- Runtime: 95 min
- Genre: Comedy, Crime
- Starring: Kristy Swanson, Andy Comeau, George Hamilton, Ernestine Mercer ... see all
- Director: Tom Schulman
- Plot: This is a very black comedy. A mob courier (Joe Pesci) is hired to transport the heads of 8 murder victims to a mob boss. However, the duffel bag gets... Read more
User Reviews
A hit-or-miss dark comedy
Mar 06, 2009
Greg Linsun - yahoo.com
Mar 06, 2009Greg Linsun - yahoo.com
Eight Heads in a Duffel Bag has the makings of a perfect dark comedy, but becomes an unfortunate meh. Tommy is a hitman trying to deliver a set of Eight decapitated crime lords in a duffel bag. While Charlie is just... Full review
A hit-or-miss dark comedy
Mar 06, 2009
samuraifa451 - yahoo.com
Mar 06, 2009samuraifa451 - yahoo.com
Eight Heads in a Duffel Bag has the makings of a perfect dark comedy, but becomes an unfortunate meh. Tommy is a hitman trying to deliver a set of Eight decapitated crime lords in a duffel bag. While Charlie is just... Full review
Truly funny
Mar 10, 2008
nofur98 - yahoo.com
Mar 10, 2008nofur98 - yahoo.com
Great movie, yet not given the credit it deserves. Critics gave tgis only one star. Yet, they did that to half baked also. So what do they know. Truly funny, great acting, and craazy but good plot. Truly a movie which... Full review
Not very good
Nov 09, 2007
Frapples - yahoo.com
Nov 09, 2007Frapples - yahoo.com
I was extremely disappointed in this movie. You would think they could have found something funnier to do with 8 decapitated heads. The only thing original might have been the dream sequence where they sang Mr. Sandman. Kristy Swanson was gorgeous... Full review
Not very good
Nov 09, 2007
bjfrapples - yahoo.com
Nov 09, 2007bjfrapples - yahoo.com
I was extremely disappointed in this movie. You would think they could have found something funnier to do with 8 decapitated heads. The only thing original might have been the dream sequence where they sang Mr. Sandman. Kristy Swanson was gorgeous... Full review
Good Start, But Goes Downhill Fast
Aug 13, 2007
ccthemovieman-1 - imdb.com
Aug 13, 2007ccthemovieman-1 - imdb.com
Well, I have to admit the title of this film caught my eye, enough for me to check out the VHS back in the late '90s. I also was encouraged by the beginning of this film. It starts off very... Full review
A Pleasant Surprise
Sep 16, 2006
tonyhu - imdb.com
Sep 16, 2006tonyhu - imdb.com
The rest of the IMDb reviewers have got it about right. This is a good film. Nothing special or brilliant, but it does what it sets out to do which is to make you laugh - and it does so... Full review
thumbs up
Aug 16, 2006
sad - yahoo.com
Aug 16, 2006sad - yahoo.com
how you say.. |;; (is that something like thumbs up?) it's a great movie.. to little respect and attention it has been awarded.. damn faggots... maggots.. raggots.. umm.. anyway.. it's really good... funny as a dude with one ball. watch it!... Full review
Hillarious
Aug 16, 2006
spiderx_oo7 - yahoo.com
Aug 16, 2006spiderx_oo7 - yahoo.com
I truly loved this move.. its one of my favorites... the first time I saw it I laughed so mush I had a cramp... serously it's great movie. I am very surprised it didn't get much attention.... Full review
thumbs up
Aug 16, 2006
eatmyassusonofabitch - yahoo.com
Aug 16, 2006eatmyassusonofabitch - yahoo.com
how you say.. |;; (is that something like thumbs up?) it's a great movie.. to little respect and attention it has been awarded.. damn faggots... maggots.. raggots.. umm.. anyway.. it's really good... funny as a dude with one ball. watch it!... Full review
Critics Reviews
| May 10, 2008Entertainment Weekly
High jinks ensue when a mobster (Joe Pesci - what a surprise!
Writer-director Tom Schulman - a long way from his Oscar-winning Dead Poets Society screenplay - mixes gratuitously phony-looking gore, ''comic'' torture scenes, and racial stereotypes.
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| Nov 28, 1997TotalFilm
Squeaky-voiced Pesci is the best thing about 8 Heads In A Duffel Bag.
But apart from Pesci and Spades occasional hints at what might have been, this is a humdrum, amateur-night comedy which fails to live up to its Tarantino-esque promise of gag-spouting wiseguys and cadaver-slicing ultraviolence.
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| Apr 18, 1997Los Angeles Times
Friday April 18, 1997 Tom Schulman's "Eight Heads in a Duffel Bag" is consistently inventive without being consistently funny and comes up with about half as many laughs as it works so hard to get.
Spade is very funny as a guy who can't resist a retort even in the most negative circumstances, and Louiso may be even funnier
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| Apr 18, 1997Hartford Courant
Tom Schulman's "Eight Heads in a Duffel Bag" is consistently inventive without being consistently funny and comes up with about half as many laughs as it works so hard to get.
Spade is very funny as a guy who can't resist a retort even in the most negative circumstances, and Louiso may be even funnier
... Full Review
News
Film Critic TO get a handle on 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag ,it helps to know that Tom Schulman, who wrote and directed this title in search of a movie, also wrote the screenplay for the stalker comedy What... ... Full Article
``8 Heads in a Duffel Bag'' sounds, I know, like a miniseries inspired by ``Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia.'' But the movie's roots are in screwball comedy, and occasionally it does approach the zaniness it yearns for. ... Full Article

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