After the showing, Jett explains to them that he kept the budget so low by not telling his actors they were in a movie until the final piece was ready.

The group then goes to an after party; however, Matt is unable to gain entry into the club after not wanting to appear desperate by asking his old friend Jett to get him in.

The four actors go to a different bar, where they decide to go to Chad's isolated cabin in the woods to write their own movie to star in, since they were fed up having only been cast as extras.

After arriving at the cabin, Michelle gets drunk and decides to go to bed, whereupon Chad hits on her, although she rejects his advances, telling him he is like a brother.

The next morning, Michelle believes this to have been a dream and decides to tell the others in the hopes of creating a horror movie based around the character 'baghead'.

Chad then quickly learns of Michelle's advances on Matt, and upset he too leaves the cabins, only for his screams to be heard minutes later.

Catherine and Michelle help the unconscious Chad into the truck before Matt emerges from the woods uninjured and "baghead" is revealed to be Jett.

Catherine and Michelle explain to him that Matt and Jett orchestrated the whole thing and had been secretly filming them to create a movie.

The site's consensus reads, "Pitting actors against murderers in a self-aware struggle for stardom, Baghead successfully skates the borders of horror and comedy.

[13] Dana Stevens of Slate magazine compared the film to early works by John Sayles and Eric Rohmer.