Synopsis
Four actors go to a cabin in the woods to write, direct, and act in a film that will jump-start their careers. Their idea is a horror film about a man with a bag over his head, but what happens when that man mysteriously shows up?
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Cast
- Steve ZissisChad
- Ross PartridgeMatt
- Greta GerwigMichelle
- Elise MullerCatherine
- Jett GarnerJett Garner
- Jennifer LafleurFestival Director
- Darrell BryantPickup truck driver
- Cass Naumann'We Are Naked' Girlfriend
- Anthony CristoBouncer
- Jen TracyName Checker
Recommendations
- 83
Portland Oregonian
Baghead has a nearly documentary quality that infuses it with a sense of heightened stakes and real peril. In a characteristically offhanded way, it's cunningly skillful. - 83
The A.V. Club
Much of the fun of Baghead is that it's unclassifiable, by turns a movie-movie lark, an Eric Rohmer-like relationship comedy, and a surprisingly effective "Friday The 13th" kids-in-the-woods slasher film. - 80
Salon
Baghead is a kick in the pants. - 78
Austin Chronicle
Kind of funny and kind of scary, Baghead's central horror motif is merely a structure on which to hang its four-character story about the depth of relationships and the drive to find meaningful work. - 70
Variety
Though its scares are scarce, Baghead provides what nine out of 10 dead-teenagers movies lack: specifically, a realistic sense of character that gives moviegoers a reason to identify with the would-be victims. - 60
New York Magazine (Vulture)
Too bad the movies collapses at the end when we find out what's really going on. Baghead is so much more vivid when it's indefinite. - 60
NPR
Spectacularly self-absorbed protagonists step on each other, jockeying first for position, and ultimately for survival. - 60
Wall Street Journal
A very short and cheerfully scruffy comedy-thriller.
