Skulhedface

Skulhedface was the band’s second attempt at a commercially released, long-form film, again, the story goes with This Toilet Earth (though the album diverges from that story frequently).

## Skulhedface

### Directed by

Melanie Mandl, Hunter Jackson, Dave Brockie

### Budget

Unknown

The plot revolves around the character Skulhedface, whom was once a beautiful queen of a peaceful, vegetarian planet. But she was transformed into a foul creature during a raid of her planet by Cardinal Syn, Gwar’s arch nemesis. She then travels to Earth, where she’s instructed to get hold of sufficient amounts of Jizmoglobin, a blue bodily fluid that’s responsible for creativity, rebellion and decadence of all creatures. Meanwhile, Gwar is hosting a telethon on their pirate television network, Slave Pit TV. The telethon’s goal is get enough humans to offer themselves up as sacrifices to unite with the World Maggot, which lies dormant in Earth’s core. The band plans to ride it off the planet once the telethon’s goal has surpassed. The telethon has an increasing amount of success, which draws the attention of GlomCo, an archetypical evil media conglomerate.  The CEO of GlomCo, Boss Glom, summons Sleazy P. Martini, Gwar’s manager, in hopes he’ll be able to convince Sleazy to sell Gwar out, reduce them to commodities, and ultimately kill the band to prevent any interference. Martini refuses more and more, until he’s offered an absurd amount of money, in which he agrees to sign the contract to sell Gwar out. Though, at that moment, Gwar breaks through the ceiling, and Boss Glom summons his guards to attack. Gwar easily kills off the board members and guards, but Glom escapes through his private elevator. Gwar takes over the equipment and the corporation of GlomCo, in which they then broadcast Slave Pit TV to the public. On the way down to the secret laboratory below the corporation, it’s revealed that Boss Glom is Skulhedface. Her assistant, Flopsy, assists her to a large Jizmoglobin extraction machine. Rocker Sebastian Bach is placed in the device, he then has his Jizmoglobin removed, and emerges as a business type of guy, with zero personality whatsoever. Skulhedface starts to drink the Jizmoglobin, when a transmission from Cardinal Syn comes in, he will “be arriving in the next movie” to quote him (which, he does). He says when he does arrive, he’ll collect the Jizmoglobin and subjugate the planet. Meanwhile, the telethon is still going well, and Gwar feasts their imminent departure from the planet. Beefcake the Mighty, however, spots Flopsy, how has been sent to lure him in as a trap. Once Beefcake has been lured down to the lab, Skulhedface removes Beefcake’s face and she then puts it over hers, and calls Gwar letting them know there’s midgets in the basement, with which they could sate their sexual appetitie one last time before leaving. When the band arrives in the basement, they’re stunned to see Beefcake tied up with no face. During a conversation with Skulhedface, Flopsy returns Beefcake's face, and in return, decides to stick his fist in Flopsy's mouth (which is vaginal in shape). Unfortunately, he is too rough, and Flopsy dies. Then, Skulhedface reveals her greatest weapon - the Flesh Column, composed of the foulest of human pieces. The combined efforts of Gwar fail, and they are subjected to the Jizmoglobin extraction device, which is overloaded with their combined Jizmoglobin. Skulhedface is reverted to her old self, and Gwar into infants. Now benevolent, she returns their Jizmoglobin, and things return to as they were. The entire band (minus Slymenstra Hymen) rapes her to death, and they promptly return to the World Maggot. As they reach the surface, they see the World Maggot flying away without them, while Sleazy P. Martini “consoles” them and concludes the broadcast day.

## Music Videos

* "Saddam a Go-Go",
* "The Insidious Soliloquy of Skulhedface"
* "Jack the World." Two of these videos,
* "Saddam a Go-Go" used footage (and new bassist Casey Orr) from the tour corresponding with the album and film, and was not in the final release.

## Miscellaneous

* This was to be the first film in which guitarist Peter Lee plays Flattus Maximus, but he was recovering from a gunshot wound to his stomach. He is seen in one of the commercials as a police officer - it was during the filming of this scene that he and Dave Brockie, the other police officer, came up with the idea for X-Cops - but in no other. Flattus Maximus was portrayed by two other people, as Lee was absent for most of it. "Jack the World" was his first video, and it featured him wearing a colostomy bag.
* *Skulhedface* is the final film to feature Michael Bishop (bassist) as Beefcake the Mighty; he left the band shortly after filming.
* This was filmed at the height of Gwar's popularity, and featured a number of well-known people: Boss Glom was portrayed by Jello Biafra, and Sebastian Bach appears as himself.
* Melanie Mandl, the director, was also a voice (Lady D) on the *MC Rhythmless* Slave Pit Single, a series of non-album recordings released to the Total Slavery Fan Club, and was Gwar's main videographer. She left shortly after the album's tour cycle.
* This film was originally going to be in theaters, but that did not happen, as the MPAA refused to rate it anything other than NC-17, saying there was no way to cut it for an R.
* During the telethon, parody commercials were featured, including "Sperm-N-Slide" among others.