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    The movie opens with a group of young people chasing a disfigured boy named Jack thru the woods taunting him.  When he fights back and manages to scratch the face of one of the boys they drown him in a shallow pool of water.  Ten years pass and one of the group, a young woman named Sue, returns to town in time to watch her friends disappear one at a time.  Eventually she comes face to face with the killer known as the Bagman.  Is it Jack come back from the grave for his revenge or has one of her friends gone mad from the guilt?  

    What we have here is a very low budget slasher movie made by a group of inexperienced filmmakers and it really shows.  The story is kind of cool and follows the traditional story arc of an outcast seeking revenge for something that was done to him/her.  It does drag a bit and have some really unnecessary and distracting attempts at humor that have nothing to do with the story.  For example one of the male characters goes to a bar and picks up what is obviously a guy in a dress.  He takes he/she home with him and discovers the fake boobs and only then realizes that it is a guy.  It has nothing to do with the story and in fact takes the audience away out of the story, which is a bad idea.  In addition the acting is terrible and awkward.  I don’t’ ask for much from a horror film when it comes to acting but the dialog is delivered so flat and the scenes where they are forced to show emotions are really over the top.  The music from the film is the sort of public domain music that you only hear in low budget movies like this and really shitty porn movies.  Not good at all.  Now there are a few things that I did like about this movie.  For example some of the gore effects were very cool looking and well executed.  As a horror fan I know they aren’t really doing anything innovative and I understand how they pulled the effects off, but still they are well done.  Also lead actress and Stephanie Beaton isn’t afraid to take her clothes off and does so a couple of times which I found to be very nice (am I being too creepy for you guys?).  I also thought that the killer looked pretty cool and having the frown or smile drawn on the sack was pretty cool take on the “tater sack” look. 

    The Bagman isn’t a great movie by any stretch of the imagination.  Still I sort of enjoyed it for the nudity, the killer’s look, gore, and overall silliness of the movie.  If you dig slasher movies I recommend that you at least give this one a rent or buy it if it is cheap enough (this is a definite $5 or less kind of movie).