Baghead (2023)
4/10
Talk to me too?.....
5 February 2024
Warning: Spoilers
After the sudden death of her estranged father, unemployed Iris discovers she's inherited his old pub: a dusty and dilapidated property that just so happens to come with a permanent basement-dwelling tenant.

As her dad's pre-death VHS tape informs her, Iris will now be bound to this subterranean creature forever and must follow a set of rules in order to stop it escaping. The bad news is the rules are not as cool as the Gremlin rules.

The good news is that It has the abilities to connect the living to the dead for two minutes. That's a whole thirty seconds more than the hand from Talk To Me, and she may be able to profit from the titular character.....

Horror is my favourite genre, and to get to the golden nuggets of horror, you have to trawl through some trash more often than you would think, and here is another one out of the way, getting me closer to that beautiful golden horror film.

If you've seen Talk To Me, you've already seen this film, as it's nothing more than a pound shop version of that superior film. And that was less convoluted than this.

So once Iris has signed the contract, Baghead is hers, and. It's do what she says. But only if the two minute rule isn't breached, or you paint a sign on a step, because that also works.

The film goes for the cheap shot of jump scares, and if you're used to films like this, you know when the jump scares are coming every single time.

The titular character has a good design, and it's not terrible. It's just boring in parts.
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