"Baghead" - Review

Struggling artist Iris (Freya Allen) inherits a pub owned by her estranged father (Peter Mullan). In need of a place to live, she decides to stick around the dilapidated building, particularly when a wealthy man named Neil (Jermy Irvine) offers her a large sum of money to be allowed to go down into the basement and "see her". Along with her friend Katie (Ruby Barker), Iris uncovers an old woman with an unusual "gift"...

An interesting idea and debut, about death and confronting the past (the main character is "Iris", there is a focus on the eyes, etc) and a nice, simple setting. It aims for a character and thematic focus, and there is a fun, lizard like performance from Ned Dennehy as a lawyer; and Peter Mullan is always wonderful. There are strong performances, and it has a few creepy and sinister moments.
Unfortunately its reliance on loud, loud noises and a score of "man playing a bassoon into a megaphone attached to the amplifier". It mars an otherwise okay film.