Baghead (2023)
April 7, 2025 11:24 AM - Subscribe
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.
We watched this due to a recent episode of Dirty Little Horror; it's a full length version of a former short film.
There is potential for a better movie here, but it's very slapdash with in-universe rules (don't make them up if you aren't even going to abide by them AT ALL), an inexplicable fusty British pub in Berlin (Shepherd did point out that UK expats might open or go to a British pub in Berlin if you were looking for the familiar comforts of home, but I don't entirely buy it), a very annoying female protagonist that even for a horror movie makes absolutely stupid decisions, and a friend who doesn't deserve to be dragged down by said protagonist.
At the end, Shepherd and I had a moment re: the titular Baghead that could be summed up by the Lucille Bluth GIF of "Good for her."
Doesn't seem to be streaming anywhere free in Canada or the US (it's available to rent on Apple TV in both countries).
We watched this due to a recent episode of Dirty Little Horror; it's a full length version of a former short film.
There is potential for a better movie here, but it's very slapdash with in-universe rules (don't make them up if you aren't even going to abide by them AT ALL), an inexplicable fusty British pub in Berlin (Shepherd did point out that UK expats might open or go to a British pub in Berlin if you were looking for the familiar comforts of home, but I don't entirely buy it), a very annoying female protagonist that even for a horror movie makes absolutely stupid decisions, and a friend who doesn't deserve to be dragged down by said protagonist.
At the end, Shepherd and I had a moment re: the titular Baghead that could be summed up by the Lucille Bluth GIF of "Good for her."
Doesn't seem to be streaming anywhere free in Canada or the US (it's available to rent on Apple TV in both countries).
Always looked like Great ValueTM Talk to Me.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 6:32 AM on April 8 [3 favorites]
posted by DirtyOldTown at 6:32 AM on April 8 [3 favorites]
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And yeah! I'm on Team Baghead! Baghead didn't ask to be locked in a basement by a bunch of a-holes and be used for weird death scryin' for a few hundred years! I'd be pissed too! Down with arseholes! Viva Baghead!
Beyond that... meh. I can kind of predict now the movies that I will entirely forget later, and while I did a good job of phone-down-full-focus here, I and rock solid that in six months I'll have forgotten watching Baghead, and that Baghead ever existed. Baghead is so unmemorable that it might erase adjacent horror movies, so apologies to, uh, the other ones I've watched recently and have now also forgotten because of Baghead.
Baghead, The Character: Go Baghead.
Baghead, The Movie: Boo Baghead.
posted by Shepherd at 3:35 PM on April 7 [2 favorites]