The world of independent filmmaking is not for the weak of heart, according to director Jay Duplass. "We sort of talk about our movies as monsters," he says. "People ask us how hard it is to work together as brothers, and we say it's easy, because we're not the enemy -- the enemy is this giant monster we've created that needs to be fed. We're trying to keep the beast moving and not let it kill us at the same time." The brother in question is Mark Duplass, and the film is their horror-hybrid Baghead, which opened last weekend. Baghead follows a quartet of would-be filmmakers into the woods where they wax cinematic while being stalked by a mysterious figure... wearing a bag on his head.

So far response has been mixed; AMC's Grady Hendrix found the feature wanting in the horror department, for example, while AV Club reviewer Scott Tobias gave it a B+ and found to be a "surprisingly effective Friday The 13th kids-in-the-woods slasher film." An IMDB discussion debates, "Is this a horror movie?"

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