You can’t kill it, you can’t let it out — a CTV29 SCREAMing of “Baghead” by the Duplass Brothers
Tuesday, October 28th, 2025. 6 p.m. Four friends. One cabin. Zero budget. Just in time for Halloween, CTV29 is screening Baghead (2008)—a scrappy, self-aware horror-comedy from the Duplass Brothers that proves you don’t need millions of dollars to make your audience squirm, scream, and laugh in equal measure. Shot on a shoestring and deeply rooted in the ethos of DIY filmmaking, Baghead is part horror film, part meta-satire. It follows a group of struggling actors who retreat to a remote cabin to write the perfect low-budget horror movie—only to find themselves living out a version of their own script when a mysterious figure in a bag mask starts appearing in the woods. Is it a joke? A breakdown? Or something truly dangerous? Celebrated as one of the early “mumblecore” films…