Bagman (2024)

When a sinister threat from his childhood returns to haunt him, a father desperately struggles against his deepest inner fear. Only this time, the fight isn’t for himself; it’s for his family. (IMDB)

Hollywood doesn’t seem to tarry of old folklore tales that can be adapted on TV… Not that I complain, the more horror movies, the better. However, I just wish that they would stop digging old creepy stories from I-don’t-know-where and present it as if it was coming from our collective childhoods. I actually never heard about this one before.

While the movie was entertaining enough for a pop-corn evening, I couldn’t help but feeling bad for the main protagonist who seem to have the worst luck in his private life, then moves back to his childhood town, only to see his life being gaslighted even further.

Beware SPOILERS below.

One of the biggest gimmick of the movie is the nanny cam. Which leads me to the greatest plot hole in the entire movie… If you would know for fact that your kid is in danger, would you still decide to keep him in a separate room while the adults are sleeping together? That made zero sense.

However, wouldn’t it be for the abrupt sucky end, we didn’t have a bad time watching Bagman. There’s apparently going to be a sequel and I’m actually curious. I just hope that it addresses the characters’ decisions better and tightens up the storytelling because I felt left on a cliffhanger.