Baghead is a 2008 comedy

Comedy

Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

/horror film

Horror film

Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...

 directed by Jay Duplass

Jay Duplass

Lawrence Jay Duplass is an American film director. He is best known for his debut film The Puffy Chair and most recent film Baghead. His brother Mark Duplass has worked with him on both films....

 and Mark Duplass

Mark Duplass

Mark David Duplass is an American film director, film producer, actor, and screenwriter.Duplass was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is the brother of director and writer Jay Duplass. He is married to his co-star on The League, Katie Aselton. Duplass is considered to be one of the founders of...

. Its limited release began on 25 July 2008.

Plot

Four actors go to a cabin in the woods to write, direct, and act in a film that will jump-start their careers. Their idea is a horror film about a man with a bag over his head, but what happens when that man mysteriously shows up?

Reception

This film received mostly positive reviews from Duane Byrge (The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Reporter

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), Bill Weber (Slant Magazine

Slant Magazine

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), Peter Debruge (Variety

Variety (magazine)

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) and Scott Weinberg (FEARnet

FEARnet

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). It also received two "See It"s from Michael Phillips

Michael Phillips

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 and Richard Roeper

Richard Roeper

Richard E. Roeper is an American columnist and film critic for The Chicago Sun-Times and now a co-host on The Roe Conn Show on WLS-AM...

 during At the Movies. The film currently holds a rating of 77% on review aggregator RottenTomatoes, based on 91 reviews.

External links

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• Interview with Mark and Jay Duplass at Cinefantastique
  Cinefantastique
  Cinefantastique was a horror, fantasy, and science fiction film magazine originally started as a mimeographed fanzine in 1967, then relaunched as a glossy, offset quarterly in 1970 by publisher/editor Frederick S. Clarke...