Baghead

Iris Lark inherits a dilapidated pub in Berlin after the death of her estranged father, Owen. What she does not know when she signs the deed is that the building comes with a curse: a shape-shifting creature known as Baghead lives in the basement and can take on the appearance of the dead. Anyone who uses its power to speak with a lost loved one is granted only two minutes, and breaking that limit carries severe consequences.

Rather than keep the secret to herself, Iris begins arranging paid meetings between grieving people and the departed, among them the widower Neil. With her friend Katie, she tries to stay in control of Baghead before the creature turns on them both.

Alberto Corredor directs this 2023 horror thriller, a feature-length expansion of his own 2017 short of the same name and his second directorial credit. Freya Allan leads as Iris, with Jeremy Irvine, Ruby Barker, Peter Mullan, Anne Müller and Svenja Jung in supporting roles. Bryce McGuire and Christina Pamies wrote the screenplay, and the film was produced by Andrew Rona and Alex Heineman for Studio Babelsberg, Vertigo Entertainment, Canal+ and Ciné+. Made across Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States and France, it runs 95 minutes and took about 7 million dollars worldwide. On IMDb it holds 5.4 out of 10 from roughly 15,000 votes, while on TMDB it sits at 6.5 from a much smaller pool of 568, and the film critics' rating stands at 4.2 from 32 reviews.