Smack in the middle of a card table set up in the far corner of the Heritage Village parking lot is a gigantic, fully-feathered chicken head. The head is four feet tall, and it looks angry. It looks like the rooster from hell.
Which is entirely appropriate, because said head is a costume piece for Chicken Head, a horror movie spoof in production on the grounds of the leafy Largo park and open-air history museum. The head’s proud creator guards it like a government secret, and politely asks that it not be photographed by the media – no spoilers, you know.
This, though, can be said about Chicken Head: It’s an independent film written by actor Corin Nemec (I Know My First Name is Steven, Stargate SG-1, Parker Lewis Can’t Lose) and screen scribe Matt Florio. They also play the lead characters, a pair of documentarians named Skip and Todd (of “STD Productions”) who stumble upon the legend of a half man, half chicken who has terrorized a small Florida town for years.
Their financial benefactor Darryl (David Faustino from Married … With Children) is not pleased that the tale of the “Chicken Head Slayer” has taken the team away from their agreed-upon documentary project, about the high suicide rate among dentists…