"A bit creepy, to be honest."
In this low-budget British horror, expanded from a short film, a young woman returns to her estranged father's somewhat grim-looking pub following his grisly demise, only to find that she has unwittingly taken custody of a supernatural creature that lives locked away in the cellar - the titular and literal Baghead - which she must not let out. With the arrival of her best friend, plus a grieving husband willing to pay to see the creature in order to contact his dead wife, the film is awash with eerily ominous synth sounds, sudden extreme close-ups and plenty of very slow walking in the dark. Based around two classic genre premises - the creature in the basement plus a set of rules (delivered via VHS tape!) that are subsequently systematically broken - the film is perhaps a little slow overall, but it is suitably atmospheric and has enough ideas to keep it moving along.
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