Baghead

Grief is fertile territory for horror, but while the script picks at Baghead’s thematic underpinnings, Corredor skips all but the most essential exposition, staying focused on delivering what the audience wants.

Baghead cannot grapple with bigger questions; instead, it is mostly just satisfied with cheap jump scares that don’t provide any value or comfort to those who have suffered loss. And even as a basic scary horror, it just doesn’t hold the goods.

Baghead is moody and atmospheric enough (if low on scares) for about the first hour.

There are masterful works of horror that have proven less can be more. Despite some of its promise, Baghead is not one of them.

Baghead has a weak start but gets better half way through. The source material was probably better than the final product; several scenes in this movie could have been better.

Rolling off the production line of horror films coming out of Shudder is 2023's 'Baghead'.SYNOPSIS: 'A young woman inherits a run-down pub and discovers a dark secret within its basement - Baghead - a shape-shifting creature that will let you speak to lost loved ones, but not without consequence.'To be fair creating a film set in England called 'Baghead' wasn't probably the best idea in hindsight. And that's just the start of this film's ****'s not a bad film overall but it's so clichéd it's just a film which isn't really that scary. 'Baghead' is too incoherent to be frightening, too needlessly over written to make a great deal of sense, and it needed an exposition dump part way through just so it appeared there was some sort of **** is creepy at times but it just wiffs of copy and paste **** delivers exactly what I'd expect from a low level B movie. Nothing more, nothing less.6/10

I wasn’t expecting much at all but the start pleasantly surprised me with a very engaging opening. It reminded me of Talk to Me (2022) but this is infinitely better. The key cast Freya Allan and Peter Mullan were excellent but the rest of the cast felt like drama school students in their first film, the supporting cast really were below average and sadly brought down the excellent performances from the leads. The use of animations for the flashbacks was really disconnecting to the main story and felt out-of-place. It’s not the most original film with stereotypes and fairly direct inspiration from other films like The Exorcist III: Legion (1990), Ju-on: The Grudge (2002) and even The Evil Dead (1981). Having said all that, I actually enjoyed the film even if I won’t remember it next week. The pacing is excellent and I didn’t get bored, the main cast are captivating and there are some good scares.

The worst movie i have ever seen i got eye cancer from seeing this. The main actress is a baddie tho. For this reason only i give it a 2

Watch Talk To Me instead. You won't find anything particularly novel or well-written here. Each time it looks like the film may go in an interesting direction, it quickly takes you down the least creative path. Like most horror movies it relies on a cheap scares and lazy exposition instead of a compelling story.