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Header
Directed by	Archibald Flancranstin
Produced by	Michael Philip Anthony Michael E. Kennedy
Written by	Michael E. Kennedy Edward Lee Verotik
Starring	Jake Suffian Elliot V. Kotek Dick Mullaney
Music by	Ben Goldberg
Cinematography	Archibald Flancranstin
Editing by	Archibald Flancranstin
Release date(s)	August 12, 2009
Running time	89 min
Country	United States
Language	English

Header is a 2006 horror film directed by Archibald Flancranstin. Adapted from Edward Lee's novella, it is set amid a provincial community and the untamed backwoods of West Virginia. Lee makes his film debut in the movie. Header was released on DVD by Synapse Films on June 30, 2009.

Plot

Header parallels the grueling psychological journeys taken by Stewart Cummings, a jaded ATF Special Agent working his dead-end job and Travis Clyde Tuckton, a bumpkin ex-con who returns home from prison to be with his handicapped grandfather, Jake Martin. Stewart struggles to provide for his sickly girlfriend, Kathy, whose medicine cost more than he can afford – that is until he starts running narcotics across the county line for a man named Dutch. Meanwhile, Travis’s grandfather educates his grandson about generations of family feuds and encourages him to enact revenge. Their stories become linked and descend into barbarity when Stewart begins to investigate the nauseatingly violent murders of mountain-folk in the area. Both Stewart and Travis blindly follow the motivating force of love, justifying their actions along the way, until they’re led down colliding paths of death and self-destruction.

Cast

Noted author Jack Ketchum has a cameo appearance in the film.

External links

• Official Website
• Header at the Internet Movie Database
• Header at Allmovie