I saw this on Amazing Stories the Movie and I really loved it, I thought it was the better story by a mile and for me it really stole the show. It starts out a little slow but sets the stage really well for the more fantastical ghoulish havoc that occurs and when the episode does finally get to that point it really takes off and I found it a blast. Christopher Lloyd really shines as an eccentric and overly-harsh English teacher who rules his class with an iron fist and who's punishments to the students that get on his bad side are so downright cruel they're borderline abuse! His unique sharp voice is one you just can't ignore and I love seeing him command that classroom. The story wastes no time in establishing what a mean unreasonable nightmare his teacher is, and he makes a strong impression within moments. I love all his quirky mannerisms and piercing glances and he has a delightfully tongue in cheek tone to his performance and is clearly enjoying playing a villainous role. And when his character comes back from the dead as a decapitated zombie he strangely seems more cheerful than before and really lets loose with it! The way his body has a 'mind' of its own and holds his head aloft by its long hair as he rants at his body for which direction to take him in as he chases the two teenagers out of his house and down the street is such a weird and hilarious spectacle, with definite echoes of both Sleepy Hollow and Re-Animator. I thought the effect looked very well done, it looked like a real headless body running around, and the camera work with the real actor's head and the various expressive fake heads helped to sell the illusion. Some of those heads do look a bit funky at points, but so what it's still real and has more soul to it than computer imagery.. The spirited music reminded me a lot of what Robert Zemeckis also did in the excellent Death Becomes Her and the Tales From the Crypt episode "And All Through the House", like with those two the E.C. comics-inspired fun macabre tone is present, right down to the classic twist ending, where it leads you to think that it may all have been a dream in the lovelorn horror buff's head - but when he goes back to class... In the final scene I liked the surreal and eerie touches of how all the students have been hexed in some way as they sit dead- concentrated on their schoolwork, and the Mary Stuart character was wearing conforming clothing as she's forced to endure the book bearing punishment. Something that seems a bit wonky about the moment however is how Scott Coffey appears to be screaming but there's no sound. May be they didn't want him to drown out Lloyd's laughter? Scott Coffey and Mary Stuart were good together, Coffey had a face that I felt like I should have known from somewhere, and his character didn't really have a personality beyond just reacting to everything and doing everything Stuart asked him to do no matter how crazy, and as for her, well I loved her 80's punky getup but she was kind of a bad girl. Being a bad teacher is one thing, but her witchcraft dabbling was tantamount to murder! And she didn't give a damn about "Mr Brand!", she was just using him and eventually abandons him for the back of a bus! Something that I found mildly annoying about this was that it felt a bit light on the horror side of things, there are no swears or nudity or anything and even the severed head and neck stump of Mr Beane was quite tame gore-wise. But thankfully for the most part it's a romp and the added length of the episode makes it play more like a short movie. I loved the fantastic cemetery set, so full of classic Gothic scary atmosphere, and this had a lot of the right elements for a great tale of terror, it's a spooky fun ride and one that makes for ideal Halloween viewing. Very well done.