#i'd get to fulfil one of my really specific dreams - being a high schooler in any decade except this one

[enjoytheglow]

I feel like we don't appreciate how Sally's severed head was done in the film (in this screencap, there are quite a few variations of Sally's severed head)

And maybe that's 'cause few people know (and also because you're not meant to think about it)

Because I didn't know until I read the IMDB Trivia page ages ago, and it makes me appreciate the entire movie-musical cast and crew so much more

Putting this under a read-more because it's LONG

The house where they filmed the reefer den (or maybe just the outside of the reefer den, there's probably like four different shooting locations [pun unintended] for the reefer den) had a swimming pool

They covered the swimming pool with dirt, made it look like a garden, and that's how the zombies come out of the ground AND (IMDB didn't confirm but I'm fairly confident that's how they did this) how Sally's severed head is able to move and talk in this scene

So, kudos to Amy Spanger for standing in an empty swimming pool and being buried up to her neck in dirt

ALSO kudos to Amy Spanger for having to do take after take tilting her head Like That

(Erin Matthews didn't do it when she was Sally [no hate, ily Erin, just making an observation], so I'm guessing it wasn't a requirement, Amy just Did That for us... And, y'know, to make the scene more realistic and funny... But mostly for us)

Whenever I watch Murder, my neck hurts just looking at the way Amy has to walk as Sally holding her severed head in place

FINAL KUDOS to all the actors who played the zombies

Every single one of you was brilliant, and Murder and Reefer Madness wouldn't have been the same without you lot in the background

I hope y'all had as much fun playing your characters as I have watching your characters and wondering how their life was before they became addicted to the violent narcotic

Idk how much of those actors were covered in dirt, but I think being covered in any amount of dirt on any part of your body would feel pretty icky

When I wear thongs - sorry, flip-flops for you Americans - I get a small amount of dirt on my foot and am like:

GET IT OFF ME GET IT OFF ME GET IT OFF ME

I lied, kudos to everyone in Reefer Madness: The Movie-Musical who had to be covered in dirt

And fake blood, I imagine that (depending on type) some fake bloods would feel pretty icky as well

And kudos to actors in general, you guys are amazing, idk how you do your job, but

(Gordon Ramsay voice)

You amaze me every time

“Eraserhead” David Lynch - 1977 

“The Amazing Maleen" The X-Files Thomas J. Wright - 2000

“Reefer Madness” Andy Fickman- 2005