The Glasshead on AllMovie

This bizarre black-and-white student film from upstate New York concerns four college kids on a camping trip who meet a sinister stranger and hear a most unusual campfire tale. In 1863, a poor dirt farmer named Jeb journeyed five miles through the snow to get medicine for his sick wife Sarah. While Jeb was gone, three drunken locals broke in and gang-raped Sarah until she died. Jeb returned as the men were leaving and they beat him up, leaving him for dead with a crushed skull. Dr. Swan (Jeff Whitaker) came across Jeb's body and took him back to his lab, where he was experimenting on reanimating dead tissue. With finely ground bones from dead prisoners of war, a local glassblower creates a glass head for Jeb. Unfortunately, the angry souls of the dead prisoners used in the glass head caused Jeb to need human blood in order to ease the overwhelming pain of the soldiers' spirits. The glass-headed zombie Jeb then killed Swan and his newborn baby to drink their blood, heading home afterward. Overwhelmed with grief at the sight of his dead wife, Jeb went for revenge against her killers, burning two of them alive in their home and strangling the third before crushing his head with a rock. Yet the glass head kept killing for decades, by which time Swan's surviving son Matthew had grown to adulthood and had begun looking for Jeb to destroy him. Matthew gathered a torch-bearing mob and scoured the countryside, but the glass head found him first and killed him with a pitchfork. Peter tells the college kids that the glass head is still around, looking for victims, and produces a severed head, then starts killing the kids. The last remaining kid is blamed for the murders, and sets out to hunt down the glass head as the film ends.