everything you have heard about this movie is true.

All that we are seeing on the screen is happening with real people, real action sequences in the background, forcing the eye to watch as if we were there.

One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

So much written about this flick. And I saw it a few times on list of most shocking flicks ever so time, after ten years of existence, to pick it up. Immediately you will notice that this is a low budget flick. No special effects, not a score to mention, you now, a real independant flick.But I was left with a bitter feeling. In fact, it's all blah blah and not that much of horror. At one moment you think things are going wrong but it isn't. It's moer about the rejected actors, 4 of them, having feelings for each other and going to a cabin to talk to make their own movie. And so a script is written and you can see it coming, The script comes alive. What happens next is for you to see but for me it was a bit low on everything. Can't complain about the plots but to say, shocking or a horror, not one bit of it. Gore 0/5 Nudity 0,5/5 Effects 0/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5

I've stated before that I love to venture out of my comfort zone when it comes to film, and I believe everyone should as well. We can't simply conform to what mainstream Hollywood spoonfeeds us and forces us to see and believe, like American cinema is the best and only kind of cinema. We must challenge our tastes with films of different countries, by different directors, of different styles, and different mediums. I've been swimming in the sea of mumblecore recently, and have now reached my last stop in the Duplass brothers', Jay and Mark, filmography. That stop is Baghead and it was more like being kicked off from a good ride.The brothers would later go on after this film to make what I call "mumblecore with actors," meaning the films are true to the roots and definition of mumblecore, but instead of utilizing amateur actors, they would recruit more well-known stars and challenge their abilities. Baghead is inept in almost every field of filmmaking and even at eighty minutes feels like an assault on patience and tolerance.We get a story concerns two couples who, after attending a film festival hosted by a good friend, become inspired to go to a remote cabin in the wilderness, crossing their fingers that inspiration will dawn on them and they will be able to whip up something. Soon, they start seeing a man with a paper bag on his head outside, and begin penning a screenplay parallel to this. Then, the simple sights become more prolific until the man is visibly stalking them in their cabin.The couples are Matt (Ross Partridge) and Michelle (Greta Gerwig), and Chad (Steve Zissis) and Catherine (Elise Muller). Along the way, convoluted love interests start to form between the two couples and I will spare you the details because it would become a chore on my part and you, the reader, to read about it. It becomes something like Matt likes Catherine but is too afraid to ask her out, and Chad has liked Michelle for a while, etc. These characters are so stock and faceless that it's hard to even make out who is who at times. Assuming you're even interested.At this point in time, the mumblecore movement in cinema was still forming and, while the movement is more ideal for whimsical comedies and light-hearted dramas, nobody ever said a horror film couldn't be constructed following the rules of the genre. Unfortunately, crossbreeding the genres resulted in an unsuccessful film. No atmosphere is created, no believability or interest is structured, and the dialog for the film, which, by the brothers, is the part that is usually taken very seriously, is taken in a haphazard, disorganized manner, with only fragmented screams and vague arguments brewing. It's a complete mess.Baghead concludes on a cheap, indie note, but before that, we have a truly unbelievable twist that isn't even examined or further developed. I conclude by saying it was a smart move on the brothers' part to try and nudge the genre into the limelight by having popular actors in the roles of amateurs. The acting here is yet another problem in this parody (?), satire (?), homage (?) of errors.Starring: Ross Partridge, Steve Zissis, Greta Gerwig, and Elise Muller. Directed by: Jay and Mark Duplass.

you know how during every horror movie you lean over to your date and say "why doesn't she just ..."? In Baghead she just does ... In fact everyone just ... But that's the genius of the film. Within Baghead we get the common/obnoxious tropes of 80s slasher film reduced to aging gen x inconvenience. On a meta level all that masked killer in the woods horseradish is little more than an inconvenience to the media slave gen xer like myself. So how exciting is it to see a group of me just accept that situation and move forward? The titular Baghead just kicks around in the background, the silent killer of this group. The axe wielding maniac of this film is the nuance of modern relationship. Guy in a mask? easy: just run. Girl who doesn't like you back? There's a movie. Baghead is a wonderful deconstruction/homage of the defining genre films of a person of a certain age but restructured to include that painful whatever of the unmarried 30ish. Imagine Cassavetes directing Slaughter High. At this point the best mumblecore has yet to offer. Do check out.

Is Mumblecore an accepted genre? There are still films being made that feature twenty-somethings and their relationships in low budget, often with hand-held digital camera. the Duplass brothers, Jay and Mark, writers and directors of this film, are solid in the mumblecore camp.Here we have a mumblecore dramedy that has a horror aspect. It is not a horror film.Chad (Steve Zissis) wants to hook up with Michelle (Greta Gerwig), Michelle wants Matt (Ross Partridge), and Catherine (Elise Muller - Revamped, Vampire Lesbian Kickboxers) is worried about her clicking clock.They all head to a cabin in the woods to write a script. they kick around ideas, but don't get anywhere until Michelle sees someone with a bag over their head.They joke around, thinking it is the others kidding around. But they start to write a script using the baghead idea.It gets funny as Michelle strips thinking it is Matt. When she then tries to scare Catherine thinking it was her, and they all deny it, they really freak. But, they still play the game on each other until Chad swears he sees the baghead while they are all standing together.The ending is not what you expect unless you are familiar with the genre.