Incannerax What a waste of my time!!!

Pluskylang Great Film overall

Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Leofwine_draca Robert Rodriguez's first film is this eight-minute black-and-white short that stars his young brother and three of his sisters. This film was made prior to his Mexican mini-classic EL MARIACHI and years before the success of DESPERADO catapulted both he and star Antonio Banderas to stardom.BEDHEAD is frenetic comedy aimed squarely at children and is meant to be a light, slight bit of entertainment, nothing more. What stands out is Rodriguez as director – it's here that he got a chance to work on the style that he has become famous for, as he speeds up the film and shoots from all kinds of crazy camera angles, displaying a definite influence from Sam Raimi. The other notable thing is Rebecca Rodriguez, who gives a charming performance as the narrator/heroine of the story.

Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) It's 1991, Robert Rodriguez is in his mid-20s and casts a whole bunch of his siblings for his very first movie, a nine-minute short film on a normal brother-sister relationship which takes a turn for the supernatural. It's in black and white just like the majority of his trademark film Sin City roughly 15 years later. When two siblings fight outside the house, the girl falls hard and awakes realizing something happened with her head when her brain hit the ground and all of a sudden she's able to move things with the power of her mind. She uses the newly-acquired ability to go full rampage on her brother and exact her revenge. However, in doing so, she falls again shortly after and may have lost her power again? Or has she?Bedhead is a decent, occasionally funny effort that doesn't really hold a candle to much of what Rodriguez has done afterward though. Actually, I think it's a pretty nice watch for children even, maybe more than for adult, who may find the eating of a cockroach, the girl constantly flying through the air etc. funnier than people our age group. Recommended to Rodriguez completionists, otherwise you can give this one a pass.

Tommy Nelson What better way is their to start off your career than with a black and white short film? Well, there's a lot better, but all of these filmmakers who's early films consisted of short, cheaply made films have left their fans with a treasure trove of their early work, and how they originally started their soon to be careers. "Bedhead" is an impressive looking short that fits in well with Rodriguez's company Los Hooligans which later just became known as Troublemaker.The narrator of this story is a little girl in the hospital who bumped her head. She flashes back and tells us the story of when she bumped her head and gained psychic powers, and the ability to get anything she wanted. Her biggest pet peeve is her brother's awful bedhead, so her top priority with her powers is to remove his awful hair style.This is just a cute little short. The plot is original enough, though somewhat reminiscent of the Twilight Zone. The acting from the kids is good. The synthesized music sounds professional. The opening animation is simple but cool looking. The direction is really interesting. Many shots can be compared to Sam Raimi's "Evil Dead II", with sped up shots and all kinds of interesting angles. Rodriguez outdid himself with the strange surreality of the direction and it looks great.This isn't a perfect short, but it's a fun way of seeing early Rodrigguez and why he ended up the success that he is today.My rating: *** out of ****. 9 mins.

RDolton This is an Extra on the EL Mariachi DVD. It's a great film. It's almost like a troma movie for children. This alone is worth getting the Mariachi DVD. plus the price you get Mariachi and desperado on the same disc for cheap. or at least I did.