Four friends head to a cabin for a weekend of writing, and Baghead turns that familiar setup into something stranger by letting the script they're pitching each other bleed into the story they're actually living.
What is Baghead about?
In Baghead, four people who call themselves actors retreat to a cabin in the woods, ostensibly to hammer out a movie script over the weekend. The pitches drift between two directions, a straightforward relationship drama or something built around a figure wearing a paper bag over its head, and the conversation itself becomes the film's engine. What begins as a debate about which idea to write soon takes on a life of its own: an anonymous, bag-headed presence enters the discussion and, gradually, the group's grip on which parts of the weekend are fiction and which are real starts to slip. Alberto Corredor directs this German-British genre mashup, released in 2023 and running 84 minutes, blending comedy, drama, horror, and romance rather than settling into any single lane. Freya Allan and Jeremy Irvine lead a cast rounded out by Ruby Barker and Peter Mullan, with the ensemble carrying scenes that shift tone as quickly as the group's story does.
About the cast
Freya Allan and Jeremy Irvine lead the four friends whose weekend script session forms the spine of Baghead, with Ruby Barker and Peter Mullan filling out a cast that has to move fluidly between comic banter, romantic tension, and horror-tinged unease, often within the same scene.
Context & significance
Baghead is a 2023 co-production between Germany and the United Kingdom that resists a single genre label, sitting across comedy, drama, horror, and romance in a way that mirrors its own premise about actors arguing over what kind of film they're even making. That structure, a story about storytelling that folds in on itself, gives the film a self-aware texture uncommon in straight genre horror.
Watching Baghead on Ktime
Baghead streams on K-Time with a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, so its genre-blending dialogue comes through clearly for Farsi-speaking audiences. The film's page can be read by anyone without an account, and watching it requires only a free K-Time login, no additional cost or trial period involved.