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(1 - 20) of 20 OFCS Rating: 75% Fresh Page   1   3/4 "For all the use of first takes and jerky camera moves, the John Cassavetes invoked by Baghead is not the indie pioneer saint but his Faustian thespian-husband character in Rosemary's Baby."   Slant Magazine   Bill Weber D+ "Once the threat arrives, I was praying to return to the childish mating rituals of these monotonous characters. Watching lousy actors try to express heartache through limited gifts is far more frightening than any masked, crazed killer."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf "Baghead is a mumblecoreish meditation on the increasingly permeable boundaries between movies and life."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 4/5 "Sibling writer-directors Jay and Mark Duplass have figured out how to use their meager resources to intriguing effect. After watching "Baghead," I'm not sure if I've seen a horror film or a comedy, and I'm sure that's what the Duplass brothers intended."   eFilmCritic.com   Dan Lybarger 4/5 "Being creative is scary and personal and when you involve other people in the creative process you have to trust them or find a way to get what you want. And that happens here as do laughs, gasps, confusion and terror both real and internalized."   Film Threat   Don R. Lewis 3/4 "Alternately hilarious, subtly sinister, and finally poignant, Baghead is not quite like any other film in memory."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman D- "What could have been an amusing short subject, the Duplass Brothers' not-quite-horror/not-quite-comedy drags its one note premise out to an almost mind-numbing 84 minutes."   FilmJerk.com   Edward Havens B "A blast of fresh air. It has warmth and innovation, and the mischievous good sense to subtly make fun of the type of film that it is."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider "The Duplass brothers waste a perfectly good porno premise by getting meta on our asses"   CinePassion   Fernando F. Croce C "Very uneven super-low-budget exercise...the sort of thing that's usually referred to as 'showing promise.'"   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek A- "Think Hannah Gets Pushed Down the Stairs. Or Hell-OL."   The L Magazine   Henry Stewart 2/4 "The problem with Baghead isn't that it's cheaply made but that it's sloppily composed."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli "An extended navel gaze."   UGO   Keith Uhlich B "it's a relationship movie, a horror film and an independent Hollywood insider satire, all three elements winking at each other the whole time."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford B- "The Duplass Brothers...get some decent mileage from their Cassavetes-lite, semi-improvisatory filmmaking approach, capturing authenticity in their cast's fumbling gestures, half-spoken lines, and stumbling advances."   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager B+ "This is the kind of imaginative and witty filmmaking that brings us that scarce commodity: a little movie gem."   Reeling Reviews   Robin Clifford 7/10 "What do four young film makers and a demented savage with a bag over his head have in common? They all want to be stars, and they almost make it in this super-indie horror satire."   Monsters and Critics   Ron Wilkinson "Its horror isn't anticipated because there's nothing about these people that justifies harm; they're just people, not pawns. But this, as with perception of what sort of film this is, isn't ultimately certain."   Not Coming to a Theater Near You   Rumsey Taylor 4/5 "A sly poke at indie filmmaking, a non-stop roller-coaster of sexual and romantic politics, and (yes) a slightly scary thriller when all is said and done."   FEARnet   Scott Weinberg B "... there's a sly wit to the way the filmmakers mix and match and upend genres."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker  (1 - 20) of 20 OFCS Rating: 75% Fresh Page   1