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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Wendy Ide

Baghead review – baffling basement-bound horror hits rock bottom

Freya Allan in Baghead: ‘too incoherent to be frightening’
Freya Allan in Baghead: ‘too incoherent to be frightening’. Photograph: Reiner Bajo

Iris (Freya Allan) is homeless and penniless. So when her estranged father (Peter Mullan) dies, leaving her a dilapidated tavern in Berlin, Iris dismisses the fact that it’s a glowering wreck of a building that soaks up light like blotting paper and moves straight in. Unfortunately, the place has a sitting tenant: a malevolent entity in the basement known as Baghead. And as we learn through extended chunks of unwieldy exposition, Baghead has the power to shapeshift and channel the dead, a service for which recently bereaved strangers such as Neil (Jeremy Irvine) are prepared to pay handsomely. Too incoherent to be frightening, too needlessly overplotted to make a great deal of sense.

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