2023 · horror · monster
Baghead
Directed by Alberto Corredor1h 35m2023
Following the death of her estranged father, Iris learns she has inherited a run-down, centuries-old pub. She travels to Berlin to identify her father’s body and meet with The Solicitor to discuss the estate. Little does she know, when the deed is signed she will become inextricably tied to an unspeakable entity that resides in the pub’s basement – Baghead – a shape-shifting creature that can transform into the dead.
Our read: Baghead (2023) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive horror · monster entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, extreme horror / monster, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- extreme
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How Baghead feels to watch.
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“You want pub-cellar horror about speaking to the dead at a dangerous two-minute limit.”
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