Headache (1978 film)

Headache (French: La Migraine, lit: The Migraine) is a 1978 Canadian body horror film written and directed by Nicolas Argyll and starring Michel Forget as a man who suffers a severe migraine of unknown origin, from there the brain begins to control his every actions, causing him to unwillingly commit crimes which leads him to fight back against his own consiousness.

The film was loosely based on the 1930 short story The Thought Monster by Amelia Reynolds Long, which was previously adapted in 1958 as Fiend Without a Face and was Argyll's first film shot in English, shooting simoultaneously with the Quebec language version. In the US, it was picked up by American International Pictures and was negatively recieved but was a box office hit.

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Home Media

 * 1980 WCI Home Video VHS/Betamax (under license from AIP)
 * 1984 Vestron Video VHS (under license from Orion)
 * 1992 Orion Home Video VHS
 * 1997 Image Entertainment DVD (under license from Orion)
 * 2003 MGM Home Entertainment DVD
 * 2012 Scream Factory Blu-ray (under license from MGM)
 * 2021 Code Red Blu-ray (distributed by Kino Lorber, under license from MGM)