Baghead is directed by Alberto Corredor which is his directorial debut.
This is just Talk To Me (2023) if it were executed extremely poorly. Instead of a hand the device used to talk to the dead is this entity named Baghead, a simple enough premise even if it repeats what Talk To Me did. The major problem here with this movie is how it’s written, you could probably get away with being a clone if the writing was half decent but that’s not the case here.
I don’t usually talk about character decision making because I find it to rarely ever hurt a movie, but I would be lying if I said it didn’t hurt this one. A lot of it is very illogical and it doesn’t help that the rules of Bagman constantly change throughout the movie whenever it’s more convenient, for example one of the rules is that bagman transforms into a dead person for two minutes before taking control. Sounds simple enough…well the movie’s characters constantly ignore that like it’s not a big deal.
The movie itself over explains plot points that ultimately don’t really matter due to the script being such a complete and total mess, finally the character development is just not there at all. There’s some attempts to try and do some character work by looking into the character’s past but nothing interesting is ever brought to the table.
Overall Baghead could have been interesting had the script been far better.
Baghead is available on Shudder.
2/10 F
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