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.

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.

A very clever short film by Robert Rodriguez. We studied this at school. It uses clever camera shots to cheat a lot of the filming and good uses of putting the tape in reverse (If you put it in slow motion you can see the fishing line when the cockroach crawls along the table). Although stop motion was used when the tap turned on. A fun filled comedy about a girl who is disturbed by her brother David(Bedhead) vandalizing her things. Anyone who likes Robert Rodriguez should see his amazing debut into film. Well worth watching very enjoyableOverall a clever original film and i give it a 9/10

Actually a simple, funny, and real low budget "try out" movie, probably his debut as well. The whole thing is in black and white, and it's so low budget he uses his own son and daughter for actor an actress.And they both can act as well!I saw the whole thing (doesn't take more than 30 minutes) on a laserdisc of El Mariachi.