This is a fun movie with the serious story blown out of the water by the living head, especially when placed in a hat box and put in a closet. Are you kidding?
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At least they were physically accurate in that a still-alive decapitated head would be unable to speak (without functional lungs).
And a decapitated head, by itself, is not really menacing unless it can fly (Screaming Skull or Peter Cushings, "The Skull") or or sprout out spider legs (The Thing) or if it can telekinetically throw things or create fire with pyrokinesis. At worst, it can bite you or make rude faces.
Reanimated skulls are not too scary, in physical terms, just by themselves too.
No eyes means it cannot do much to find you.
No muscles or ligaments means no force to bite you.
No nerves or brains means no means to hate you or cause non-existent muscles to bite.
In short, a reanimated skull can only mean there is some sort of telekinetic ghost pestering you from the afterlife.
No in-skull eyes means the ghost has to be looking at you and hauling the skull around.
No ears in-skull means, that once again, the ticked-off telekinetic ghost has to be looking at you and hauling the skull around.
The skull is only a temporary annoyance really as most pestering ghosts could just haul off and fling a chair or knife at you.