Yes, the horse head in the famous "The Godfather" scene was a real horse head, not a prop. Director Francis Ford Coppola chose to use a real one over a fake one because he felt the fake looked unrealistic.
The actor, John Marley, who portrayed Jack Woltz, was not informed beforehand about the real horse head, resulting in a more authentic scream. It's been widely reported that the mansion was the setting for one of the film's most iconic scenes in which Woltz wakes up to the bloody, severed horse head in his bed. That scene was filmed inside an estate on Long Island in New York, not in Los Angeles...
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Great sound for indoors or out.
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Just goes to show . . . there's more than one way to get a head.
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