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63-426: Idle Hands is a 1999 American teen horror comedy film directed by Rodman Flender , written by Terri Hughes and Ron Milbauer, and starring Devon Sawa , Seth Green , Elden Henson , Jessica Alba , and Vivica A. Fox . The film's plot follows the life of an average lazy stoner teenager, Anton Tobias, whose hand becomes possessed and goes on a killing spree, even after being cut off from his arm. The film's title

126-860: A "scalping knife" in popular American and European literature, was not known as such by Native Americans , a knife being for them just a simple and effective multi-purpose utility tool for which scalping was but one of many uses. There is substantial archaeological evidence of scalping in North America in the pre-Columbian era . Carbon dating of skulls show evidence of scalping as early as 600 AD; some skulls show evidence of healing from scalping injuries, suggesting at least some victims occasionally survived at least several months. Among Plains Indians , it seems to have been practiced primarily as part of intertribal warfare, with scalps only taken of enemies killed in battle. However, author and historian Mark van de Logt wrote, "Although military historians tend to reserve

189-683: A British invasion from Canada, which ended in defeat at the battles of Saratoga . During the Apache–Mexico Wars in 1835, the government of the Mexican state of Sonora put a bounty on the Apache which, over time, evolved into a payment by the government of 100 pesos for each scalp of a male 14 or more years old. In 1837, the Mexican state of Chihuahua also offered a bounty on Apache scalps, 100 pesos per warrior, 50 pesos per woman, and 25 pesos per child. Harris Worcester wrote: "The new policy attracted

252-588: A bounty for male scalps or prisoners, though no scalps were turned in. During the Seven Years' War, governor of Nova Scotia Charles Lawrence offered a reward for male Mi'kmaq scalps in 1756. In 2000, Mi'kmaq activists argued that this proclamation was still legal in Nova Scotia, though government officials pointed out that it was no longer legal because the bounty was superseded by the Halifax Treaties . During

315-651: A bounty on native families, paying 100 pounds sterling for the scalps of male Indians aged 12 and over, and 50 pounds sterling for women and children. Ranger John Lovewell is known to have conducted scalp-hunting expeditions, the most famous being the Battle of Pequawket in New Hampshire. In the 1710s and 1720s, New France engaged in frontier warfare with the Natchez people and the Meskwaki people , during which both sides employed

378-460: A car in her bra and panties, being raised toward the ceiling. Anton, Mick, and Pnub fight with the hand over the controls. Mick finds a mechanic's bong and he and Pnub smoke "for strength". Anton blows some smoke into the hand (still inside a hand-puppet) until it drops the controls and they save Molly. Debi throws a ritual knife into the hand, stopping it in a puff of smoke and fire. She and Randy take off for "ritualistic sex." Anton releases Molly from

441-590: A case of better than you think. This horror comedy is high on gags and giant doses of marijuana... as is the love for gore and decapitated hand insanity to entertain any happy horror fiend." A soundtrack album for Idle Hands was released through Time Bomb Recordings two weeks in advance of the film, featuring mostly punk rock and heavy metal artists. Though appearing on the album, the songs "Enthused" by Blink-182 , " Mama Said Knock You Out " by The Waking Hours, "Bleeding Boy" by Disappointment Incorporated, and "My Girlfriend's Dead" by The Vandals were not used in

504-401: A circular cut round the ears and shaking out the skull; he then scrapes the flesh off the skin with the rib of an ox, and when it is clean works it with his fingers until it is supple, and fit to be used as a sort of handkerchief. He hangs these handkerchiefs on the bridle of his horse, and is very proud of them. The best man is the man who has the greatest number.” Ammianus Marcellinus noted

567-423: A cleaver. Pnub and Mick seek out a First-Aid Kit while Anton traps the hand in a microwave, burning it. Meanwhile, Debi, teaming up with Randy, hunt Anton down to put a stop to the possessed hand. After sending Molly to the school dance, Anton returns home to finish off the hand. Unfortunately, Pnub and Mick inadvertently release the hand. The three then steal Randy's truck and head to the school. Mick and Pnub go to

630-678: A contingent of female soldiers— Dahomey Amazons —employed by the King of Dahomey (present-day Republic of Benin ). Duncan noted that these would have been taken and kept over a long period of time and would not have come from a single battle. Although Duncan travelled widely in Dahomey, and described customs such as the taking of heads and the retention of skulls as trophies, nowhere else does he mention scalping. Occasional instances of scalping of dead Axis troops by Allied military personnel are known from World War II . While many of these instances took place in

693-501: A diverse group of men, including Anglos, runaway slaves led by Seminole John Horse, and Indians — Kirker used Delawares and Shawnees ; others, such as Terrazas, used Tarahumaras ; and Seminole chief Coacoochee led a band of his own people who had fled from Indian Territory." Mexico's scalp bounties were infamously exploited by the Glanton gang : originally charged with fighting the Apache,

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756-412: A fan, which they have stopped with Tanya's shoe, but Tanya gets hung on the rope, Molly tries to pull Tanya off the fan and Anton's hand ends up removing Tanya's shoe, allowing her to be pulled to her death in the fan. Molly then runs into the art room, causing her to get knocked out. Anton enters and fights with the hand while it is inside a puppet but it escapes to the auto shop, where Molly is strapped to

819-480: A fast-food place and asks for help which he replies that he needs to keep his hands busy with other tasks so it won’t kill any more people. The same two police officers from before arrive at his house responding to a noise complaint. They enter his house upon seeing Mick and Pnub’s zombified bodies and accuse Anton of being the killer. After a short confrontation Anton’s hand kills the two cops in his living room. Fed up, Anton flees to his kitchen and cuts off his hand with

882-399: A few dextrous strokes take off the part that is termed the scalp. They are so expeditious in doing this, that the whole time required scarcely exceeds a minute. The scalp separated from the skull along the plane of the areolar connective tissue , the fourth (and least substantial) of the five layers of the human scalp. Scalping was not in itself fatal, though it was most commonly inflicted on

945-502: A form of comic relief", with particular scorn for the marketing campaign. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , the film had a 16% rating based on 56 reviews, with an average rating of 3.7/10. The site's consensus stated: "An uneasy mix of slapstick and gore, Idle Hands lacks the manic energy and comedic inspiration required to pull off its goofy premise". Metacritic reports a 31 out of 100 rating based on 20 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Gene Seymour of

1008-429: A fund ‘for the purpose of buying Indian scalps (with $ 25 each to be paid for scalps with the ears on)’ and that the market for Indian scalps ‘is not affected by age or sex’." The article noted this behavior was "sanctioned" by the U.S. federal government , and was modeled on patterns the U.S. had begun a century earlier in the "American East". From one writer's point of view, it was a "uniquely American" innovation that

1071-565: A legal punishment rather than scalping. In England in 1036, Earl Godwin , father of Harold Godwinson , was reportedly responsible for scalping his enemies, among whom was Alfred Aetheling . According to the ancient Anglo-Saxon Chronicle , 'some of them were blinded, some maimed, some scalped. No more horrible deed was done in this country since the Danes came and made peace here'. In 1845, mercenary John Duncan observed what he estimated to be 700 scalps taken in warfare and displayed as trophies by

1134-704: A total of just over $ 4 million on a budget of $ 20–25 million, making it a box-office bomb . The film's release was hindered by coming out the same month of the Columbine High School massacre , which even led distributor Columbia to consider a delay, ultimately cancelling the premiere and seeing many theaters, especially in Colorado, where the school shooting happened, deciding not to screen Idle Hands . Senator Joe Lieberman berated Idle Hands in Congress as "another grossly violent film targeted at teens that uses killing as

1197-453: Is based on the saying "idle hands are the Devil's play-things" or "the devil makes work for idle hands". The film received negative reviews from critics and bombed at the box office, grossing only $ 4.2 million from an estimated $ 25 million budget. Despite this, it has since gained a cult following . Mr. and Mrs. Tobias are settling into bed when they notice a message on the ceiling claiming someone

1260-674: Is physical evidence that scalping was practiced during the Longshan and Erlitou periods in China's central plain. A skull from an Iron Age cemetery in South Siberia shows evidence of scalping. It lends physical evidence to the practice of scalp taking by the Scythians living there. Some evidence is also found in the Indian Subcontinent . Bhai Taru Singh ( c.  1720 – 1 July 1745)

1323-500: Is the act of cutting or tearing a part of the human scalp , with hair attached, from the head, and generally occurred in warfare with the scalp being a trophy . Scalp-taking is considered part of the broader cultural practice of the taking and display of human body parts as trophies, and may have developed as an alternative to the taking of human heads, for scalps were easier to take, transport, and preserve for subsequent display. Scalping independently developed in various cultures in both

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1386-479: Is under the bed. They hear a noise from outside and as Mr. Tobias goes to check what the noise was, Mrs. Tobias calls the police, but she gets dragged under the bed and killed. Anton, their lazy stoner son, hasn't noticed their disappearance in seven days. One morning, Anton runs out of weed and goes to his friend Pnub's house to get some more, but he says he's run out of weed too. Pnub and his other friend Mick suggest that Anton should go and talk to his neighbor Molly,

1449-474: The Los Angeles Times gave a rare positive review, writing "what 'Idle Hands' lacks in originality, it makes up for in energy and insolence. It takes guts for a movie to indulge as much as this one does in proto-hippie humor and you find yourself tickled, in spite of yourself, by the movie’s nerve, if not its jokes." Jeremy Wheeler of AllMovie.com also reviewed the film positively, stating, "It's definitely

1512-788: The Brat Pack in the 1980s and early 1990s; and Sarah Michelle Gellar , Jonathan Brandis , Tatyana Ali , Neve Campbell , Chris Evans , Rose McGowan , Jennifer Love Hewitt , Heath Ledger , Britney Spears , Brandy Norwood , Kirsten Dunst , Shannon Elizabeth , Breckin Meyer , Seth Green , Tobey Maguire , Alicia Silverstone , Gina Ravera , Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen , Frankie Muniz , Hilary Duff , Lindsay Lohan , Rachael Leigh Cook , Drew Barrymore , Freddie Prinze Jr. , Drake Bell , Josh Peck , Amanda Bynes , Leonardo DiCaprio , Matthew Lillard , Gabrielle Union , David Arquette , Jamie Kennedy , Paul Rudd , Blake Lively and Hayden Panettiere in

1575-568: The French and Indian War , as of June 12, 1755, Massachusetts governor William Shirley was offering a bounty of £40 for a male Indian scalp, and £20 for scalps of females or of children under 12 years old. In 1756, Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor Robert Morris, in his declaration of war against the Lenni Lenape (Delaware) people, offered "130 Pieces of Eight , for the Scalp of Every Male Indian Enemy, above

1638-608: The Iroquois attacked a group of Wyandot fur traders and French carpenters near Montreal , killing and scalping three Frenchmen. Bounties for Indian captives or their scalps appeared in the legislation of several English colonies during the Susquehannock War (1675–77). The New England Colonies offered bounties to white settlers and Narragansett people in 1675 during King Philip's War . By 1692, New France also paid their native allies for scalps of their enemies. In 1697, on

1701-717: The Iroquois Confederacy fighting New France and the Wabanaki Confederacy over a 75-year period, starting with King William's War in 1688. All sides scalped victims, including noncombatants, during this frontier warfare. Bounty policies originally intended only for Native American scalps were extended to enemy colonists. Massachusetts created a scalp bounty during King William's War in July 1689, and continued doing so during Queen Anne's War in 1703. During Father Rale's War (1722–1725), on August 8, 1722, Massachusetts put

1764-668: The Old and New Worlds . One of the earliest examples of scalping dates back to the mesolithic period, found at a hunter-gatherer cemetery in Sweden . Several human remains from the stone-age Ertebølle culture in Denmark show evidence of scalping. A man found in a grave in the Alvastra pile-dwelling in Sweden had been scalped approximately 5,000 years ago. Georg Frederici noted that “ Herodotus provided

1827-605: The Sand Creek Massacre on November 29, 1864, during the American Indian Wars , when a 700-man force of U.S. Army volunteers destroyed the village of Cheyenne and Arapaho in southeastern Colorado Territory , killing and mutilating an estimated 70–163 Native American civilians. An 1867 New York Times article reported that "settlers in a small town in Colorado Territory had recently subscribed $ 5,000 to

1890-591: The U.S. Army displayed Indian scalps in Stanislaus County, California . In 1851, the Tehama Massacre occurred in Tehama County, California , wherein U.S. military and citizens razed villages and scalped hundreds of men, women, and children. This attack targeted Native communities specifically, in the villages of Yana, Konkow, Nisenan, Wintu, Nomlaki, Patwin, Yuki, and Maidu. Scalping also occurred during

1953-615: The 1990s. His films, particularly the Teen Apocalypse Trilogy (consisting of Totally Fucked Up , The Doom Generation , and Nowhere ), are notable for capturing the disaffected attitudes of suburban teenagers of Generation X . Éric Rohmer , a pioneering director of the French New Wave , was notable for focusing on young adults or youth and their complications with love in a number of his films. Some of these works are La Collectionneuse , Claire's Knee , Pauline at

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2016-516: The Age of Twelve Years," and "50 Pieces of Eight for the Scalp of Every Indian Woman, produced as evidence of their being killed." Although much has been made of the existence of scalp bounties, generally because they have been easily accessible as statutes, little research exists on the numbers of bounties actually paid. Early frontier warfare in forested areas in the era of flintlock muzzle-loading rifles favored tomahawks and knives over firearms because of

2079-455: The Beach , My Girlfriend's Boyfriend , and A Summer's Tale . Popular actors in teen films have included Annette Funicello , Hayley Mills , and Sal Mineo in the 1960s and 1970s; Molly Ringwald , Anthony Michael Hall , Brendan Fraser , Luke Perry , Johnny Depp , Christina Applegate , Winona Ryder , John Cusack , Michael J. Fox , Robert Downey Jr. , Matthew Broderick and members of

2142-465: The Halloween dance to watch over Molly, while Anton looks for the hand. Randy and Debi meet up with Anton. Debi explains that the hand will drag Molly's soul into the netherworld. Anton crashes the dance and tries to warn everyone about his hand, but is ignored. The hand then scalps the band's lead singer and causes a panic. Molly and her friend Tanya escape through the vents. They attempt to go through

2205-559: The Pacific Theater, along with more extreme forms of trophy-hunting (see American mutilation of Japanese war dead ), occasional instances are reported in the European Theater as well. One particularly widely reported, although disputed, case involves that of German general Friedrich Kussin, the commandant of the town of Arnhem who was ambushed and killed by British paratroopers in the early stages of Operation Market Garden . There

2268-458: The bodies, then they figure out that Anton is the killer. Mick tries to call 911, but Anton pulls out the phone cord and claims that he isn't the killer, but he murders Mick with a glass bottle. Anton promises Pnub that he didn't mean to do it, but they find out Anton's hand is possessed. His hand chases Pnub into the basement and tries to stop his hand so Pnub can escape, but his hand overpowers him and decapitates Pnub. Anton's hand throws Bones out

2331-403: The classic romantic comedy teen film. A good example of the use of archetypes in the teen film was displayed in the 1985 film, The Breakfast Club . These archetypes have since become a larger part of the culture. The jock, cheerleader , and social outcast , among others, become a familiar and pleasurable feature for the audience. However, genres are dynamic; they change and develop to meet

2394-563: The concept of 'total war ' ", in which civilians are targeted, "for conflicts between modern industrial nations," the term "closely approaches the state of affairs between the Pawnees , the Sioux , and the Cheyennes . Noncombatants were legitimate targets. Indeed, the taking of a scalp of a woman or child was considered honorable because it signified that the scalp taker had dared to enter the very heart of

2457-551: The conflict. However, both sides of the war scalped enemy corpses. The September 13, 1779 journal entry of American Lieutenant William Barton recounted how U.S. troops scalped Native dead during the Sullivan Expedition . British-allied Iroquois also practiced scalping. The most famous case was that of Jane McCrea , whose fiancé was a Loyalist officer. She was abducted by two Iroquois warriors and ultimately scalped and shot. Her death inspired many American colonists to resist

2520-446: The cops drops it on the ground. Anton goes home and smokes oregano and nutmeg using the cite as rolling papers. Realizing that was a mistake, he goes to the kitchen to wash his mouth out and makes himself a sandwich. When going to spread mayonnaise on it, the knife he’s using is covered in blood and his cat Bones playing with an eyeball. Running in a panic, he trips and finds his parents' corpses. Mick and Pnub show up and Anton shows them

2583-514: The cultural patterns of the scalper regarding the desired shape, size, and intended use of the severed scalp, and on how the victims wore their hair, but the general process of scalping was quite uniform: They seize the head of the disabled or dead enemy, and placing one of their feet on the neck, twist their left hand in the hair; by this means, having extended the skin that covers the top of the head, they draw out their scalping knives, which are always kept in good order for this cruel purpose, and with

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2646-440: The ending didn't quite mesh with the overall intended tone of the film. A replacement shop class sequence with both comic and horror elements was substituted, delaying the film's release by several months. The original swimming pool sequence with mostly completed effects can be watched as a bonus feature on DVD presentations. The film opened on April 30, 1999, in 1,611 theaters. It grossed $ 1.8 million during its first week, and then

2709-514: The enemy's territory." Many tribes of Native Americans practiced scalping, in some instances up until the end of the 19th century. Of the approximately 500 bodies at the Crow Creek massacre site, 90 percent of the skulls show evidence of scalping. The event took place circa 1325 AD. European colonisation of the Americas increased the incidence of intertribal conflict, and consequently an increase in

2772-673: The expectations of their target audience. Herman Raucher , along with Robert Mulligan, popularized the genre with Summer of '42 (1971), and Raucher continued the trend by writing Class of '44 (1973). George Lucas has been credited for perfecting the genre by writing and directing American Graffiti (1973). The genre gained more credibility during the 1980s with the works of writer and director John Hughes . His legacy of teen films, including The Breakfast Club , Ferris Bueller's Day Off , Sixteen Candles , and many more, proved to be popular not only with audiences but also with critics. Gregg Araki filmed independent films in

2835-464: The film. Chuck Donkers of AllMusic rated the album two stars out of five, remarking that it "befits a combination teen comedy/horror flick that climaxes at a high school dance" and "features songs from over-the-top adolescent favorites". In addition to those on the soundtrack album, the following songs are also used in the film: The film was parodied in the Robot Chicken episode "Dragon Nuts", in

2898-480: The gang later began to take scalps from peaceful Natives and non-Native Mexicans. Some scalping incidents occurred during the American Civil War of 1861-1865. For example, Confederate guerrillas led by "Bloody Bill" Anderson were well known for decorating their saddles with the scalps of Union soldiers they had killed. Archie Clement had the reputation of being Anderson's “chief scalper”. In 1851,

2961-510: The genre in the United States include the " beach party films " of the 1950s and 1960s, such as the Gidget series. Codes and conventions of teen films vary depending on the cultural context of the film, but they can include puberty , proms , alcohol , illegal substances, high school , parties, virginity , teen pregnancy , social groups and cliques , interpersonal conflict with peers and/or

3024-577: The girl that he likes. He sees Molly dropped her lyrics book and goes to return it, but he ends up being awkward and fleeing her porch. Meanwhile, a druidic high priestess named Debi LeCure is hunting the spirit responsible for killings across the country. She seems very passionate and determined to stop the evil hand and races to Anton’s town upon hearing about the murders. As Anton is returning from shopping, he’s stopped by two young police officers he used to go to school with. They search and bust him for having an empty baggie on him and littering after one of

3087-465: The gravely wounded or the dead. The earliest instruments used in scalping were stone knives crafted of flint , chert , or obsidian , or other materials like reeds or oyster shells that could be worked to carry an edge equal to the task. Collectively, such tools were also used for a variety of everyday tasks like skinning and processing game, but were replaced by metal knives acquired in trade through European contact. The implement, often referred to as

3150-524: The long loading time after a shot was fired. Advantage was clearly held by bow, knife, and hatchet. Some states had a history of escalating the payout of bounties offered per scalp, presumably because lower bounties were ineffective and were not worth risking one's life in exchange for the payoff. Rising bounties were a measure of bounty system failure. During the American Revolutionary War , British Indian Department official Henry Hamilton

3213-417: The message "I am under the bed" written on the ceiling. Mick and Pnub walk down the hall, pondering if they should tell Anton they were the ones that wrote the message, but decide against it, laughing. An elaborate swimming pool sequence utilizing a large pool model, "wall of hands" and a "hell hole" visual was initially planned as the film's final "hand" encounter. However, initial post viewing tests suggested

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3276-914: The mid-to-late-1990s and throughout the 2000s. Many of these actors were either pre-teens or teens themselves when the movies were made. Notable teen genre actors in the 2010s and 2020s include Maya Hawke , Leah Lewis , Leighton Meester , Zendaya , Noah Centineo , Timothée Chalamet , Zac Efron , Lucy Hale , Lucas Hedges , Tom Holland , Anna Kendrick , Katherine Langford , Keiynan Lonsdale , Ezra Miller , Evan Peters , Nick Robinson , Cole Sprouse , Amandla Stenberg , Emma Stone , Ashley Tisdale , Emma Watson , Charlie Heaton , Justice Smith , Shameik Moore , Hailee Steinfeld , Odeya Rush , Madison Iseman , Dylan Minnette , Storm Reid , Asher Angel , Jack Dylan Grazer , Charlie Plummer , Vanessa Hudgens , Sophia Lillis , Angourie Rice , Olivia Rodrigo , Finn Wolfhard , Lana Condor , Ramona Young , Liza Koshy and Mckenna Grace . Scalping Scalping

3339-500: The northern frontier of Massachusetts colony, white settler Hannah Duston killed ten of her Abenaki captors during her nighttime escape, presented their ten scalps to the Massachusetts General Court and was rewarded with bounties for two men, two women, and six children, even though colonial authorities had rescinded the law authorizing scalp bounties six months earlier. There were six colonial wars with New England and

3402-606: The older generations, fitting in, peer pressure , and popular culture . The classic codes and conventions of the teen film come from American films. One of the most widely used conventions is an emphasis on stereotypes and social groups. The stereotypes most commonly used include: Apart from the characters, there are many other codes and conventions of teen film. These films are often set in or around high schools and places frequented by teens, such as shopping malls and themed restaurants. This technique allows for many different social cliques to be shown. These settings are typical for

3465-454: The only clear and satisfactory portrayal of a scalping people in the old world” in his description of the Scythians , a nomadic people then located to the north and west of the Black Sea. Herodotus related that Scythian warriors would behead the enemies they defeated in battle and present the heads to their king to claim their share of the plunder. Then, the warrior would skin the head “by making

3528-745: The practice. In response to repeated attacks on British settlers by the French and their native allies during King George's War , Massachusetts Governor William Shirley issued a bounty in 1746 to be paid to British-allied Indians for the scalps of French-allied Indian men, women, and children. New York passed a scalp act in 1747. During Father Le Loutre's War and the Seven Years' War in Nova Scotia and Acadia , French colonists offered payments to Indians for British scalps. In 1749, governor of Nova Scotia Edward Cornwallis created an proclamation which included

3591-574: The prevalence of scalping. Officials in the English colonies of Connecticut and Massachusetts offered bounties for the heads of killed Indians, and later for just their scalps during the Pequot War . Connecticut authorities specifically reimbursed Mohegans for killing Pequot tribespeople in 1637. Four years later, the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam offered bounties for the heads of Raritans . In 1643,

3654-884: The sketch "Idle Nuts". The sketch has essentially the same plot as the original movie, but involving possessed testicles instead of a possessed hand. Seth Green, who played Mick in Idle Hands , is also an executive producer and co-creator of Robot Chicken . In November 2024, it was announced that Finn Wolfhard and Billy Bryk will write and possibly direct a remake of the film. Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan are involved as producers, along with original producers Jennifer Todd and Suzanne Todd . Teen film Films in this genre are often set in high schools and colleges , or contain characters who are of high school or college age. Teen film genres include Additional types of teen films can be divided again into sub-categories. These can be found at list of teen films . Early examples of

3717-501: The taking of scalps by the Alani in terms quite similar to those used by Herodotus. The Abbé Emmanuel H. D. Domenech referred to the decalvare of the ancient Germans and the capillos et cutem detrahere of the code of the Visigoths as examples of scalping in early medieval Europe , though some more recent interpretations of these terms relate them to shaving off the hair of the head as

3780-411: The top of the car, they go under the car and start making out. In the process of lighting the bong for Mick, Pnub accidentally hits the controls for the car, and Anton is crushed by the car. In the film's conclusion, Anton is in a body-cast in the hospital, having given up heaven to stay with Molly, and Mick and Pnub are now his Guardian angels . When he is left alone in his room, Anton looks up and sees

3843-616: The window and he goes to look for him, but the hand pulls him onto Molly's porch and rings her door bell. Molly takes Anton into her room to make out, but her parents come home so Anton leaves. Anton buries his friends' and parents' corpses in his backyard, but Mick and Pnub come back as zombies and knock him out. Back at Anton’s house, he awakes believing he had a terrible dream and runs to tell his friends, finding them still zombies and snacking on his couch. They tell him that his neighbor Randy knows about all things Satan and demons and that he might have some advice for Anton. Anton finds Randy at

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3906-422: Was a prominent Sikh martyr known for sacrificing his life, in the name of protecting Sikh values, by having had his head scalped rather than cutting his hair and converting to Islam. Scalping in the Americas predominantly arose from the practices of Indian tribes, and was later copied by European colonists on the continent. Specific scalping techniques varied somewhat from place to place, depending on

3969-425: Was nicknamed the "hair-buyer general" by American Patriots as they believed he encouraged and paid British-allied Natives to scalp Americans. As a result, when Hamilton was captured by American troops, he was treated as a war criminal instead of a prisoner of war . However, American historians have noted that there was no proof that he had ever offered rewards for scalps, and no British officer paid for scalps during

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