Baghead: Iris (Freya Allan) is on her uppers, evicted from her flat in London, dependent on her ever helpful friend Katie (Rubie Baker) so when her estranged father (Peter Mullan) dies and leaves her a pub in Berlin it seems her problems are solved. An over-helpful creepy lawyer (Ned Dennehy) offers to sell the pub for her but she insists on putting her name on the deeds. This is a different kind of tied house as we see her father confronting a strange tenant in the basement, a woman with a bag over her head and battling with her. Iris has already met Neil (Jeremy Irvine) who lets her know that the entity in the basement, Baghead (Anne Müller), can contact the dead. Now Iris is a bit of a hustler and cannot resist Neil's offer of £4,000 to get to speak to his dead wife. Baghead though has rules, while she must obey Iris now, she gains extra power if the conversation with the dead goes on for more than two minutes. She also adopts the countenance of the dead person when allowing them to speak, But like all demons Baghead is tricky and is often an unreliable narrator. Some good jump scares and a suitably crumbly dank basement. What's really important here are the rituals involved, make a mistake and your life may be forfeit. Indeed aspects of the story suggest a meta-ritual may have been at play for much of the narrative. The number of Baghead's victims increase and gore flows as we learn more about her back history and that of the pub. Good acting by Allan and Mullan (much of his performance in flashbacks and on a video recording)., with a rather frenzied performance by Irvine. Directed by Alberto Corredo, written by Lorcan Reilly. And it's not a ripoff of Talk To Me; Baghead is based on Reilly and Corredor's original 2017 short film of the same name. 7.5/10,
