A young woman who is prone to dreams of a monstrous, horse-headed figure - travels back home to attend her grandmother's funeral. There, her shrewish mother and passive step-dad are storing granny's body in an upstairs bedroom where the service will apparently be held, which soon leads to her having frightening and cryptic dreams involving the dead relative. She starts drugging herself in order to induce lucid dreams, in hopes of uncovering some dark secrets surrounding her family's history...
Visually, "Horsehead" definitely delivers on the striking and nightmarish eye candy that are incredibly well shot and occasionally feature some gore and nudity. Other than this, however, the movie just feels like a mess of overly forced symbolism, dream-related metaphors and a convoluted attempt at a plot that's wedged where ever it seemed they could fit it. Some may find more within all the symbolism - of which this film is almost comprised solely of - and the surreal, metaphysical dream references, but I just couldn't get into it. Again, the look of the movie is really cool and there's some pretty damn twisted moments (lots of pregnant belly abuse!), but where it excelled in 'style', it ultimately failed in substance and story.
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