Serial killer or funny guy? Baghead (Sony Pictures Classics)
When Mark and Jay Duplass were shooting their first indie film The Puffy Chair, they had to make long drives back and forth from the set late at night through the woods. On one of those dark nights the discussion turned to what's scary.
Mark Duplass recalls, "Somebody piped up from the back of the van, ‘I think if you are sitting in your living room and you look out the window and a dude with a bag on his head is looking back at you that would be pretty terrifying.' Everybody started laughing but that night everybody was totally freaked out. The next morning that sensation that it's really funny and its kind of creepy too got us inspired to try and make some kind of horror comedy hybrid that had the most low-fi, stupidest villain ever." And so Baghead (opening August 1 at Landmark's Hillcrest Cinemas) was born.
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