Liz and Malcolm escape for a romantic anniversary weekend at a secluded cabin. When Malcolm suddenly returns to the city, Liz finds herself isolated and in the presence of an unspeakable evil that reveals the cabin's horrifying secrets.
Acting
Maslany's dual unraveling is genuinely destabilizing.
Direction
Perkins crafts horror from negative space and cake.
Cinematography
Every frame holds something slightly, terribly wrong.
Director
Osgood Perkins
Tatiana Maslany
Liz / The Mother / Baghead
Rossif Sutherland
Malcolm Westbridge
Birkett Turton
Darren
Eden Weiss
Minka
Cassandra Ebner
Baghead
Tess Degenstein
Maggie / Baghead
Erin Boyes
Julia
Gina Vultaggio
Francis
Claire Friesen
Louise
Christin Park
Leslie
Glen Gordon
Teen Malcolm
Logan Pierce
Teen Darren
Dolores Drake
Mrs. McCallum
Evelyn Burke
Peasant Girl
Ella Wejr
Peasant Girl
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Perkins—Anthony Perkins' son—called this his 'most personal' film, loosely inspired by his own marriage's dissolution. The cake obsession? His actual wedding cake sat uneaten for a year.
The Baghead tradition draws from European 'sin-eater' folklore and Victorian post-mortem photography, where the dead were posed with living family—explaining why the entities wear faces so literally.
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