
Daddy's Head
Directed by Benjamin Barfoot
A boy and his widowed stepmother find themselves in fear for their lives after they are visited by a strange and unexplainable creature: something that appears to mimic a horrifying version of the boy’s recently deceased father.
A boy and his stepmother fear for their lives when a strange and nightmarish creature arrives.
Cast: Julia Brown, Rupert Turnbull, Charles Aitken, Nathaniel Martello-White, Nila Aalia, Mary Woodvine, Stella Gonet, Lexi Austin-Jones, Phillipa Flynn, Kaisa Hammarlund, Alice Handoll, Matthew Allen, Deepica Stephen, Lucy Doyle, James Harper-Jones, Delta
Member Reviews
The monster is very creepy and the climax wasn't bad. The acting was done well in my opinion but it was a very slow burning film. I found myself shutting it off, watching something else and then going back to it three or four times because I couldn't sit through it in one piece.
I loved this movie. A lot of people are saying its about grief and dealing with it, whi h it is. But if you take it as it is, just as a creepy monster movie, it is amazing! such a good concept for a monster, and the way it went about working its way into their lives way done so well. 5/5 skulls!
Don’t even bother watching, only reason I even gave it a skull is because there’s no option for giving it none.
Great concept! Great third act! But until then. . . it's a slog. I'm all for horror as a metaphor for grief, but I feel we're approaching critical mass for movies taking that approach. Yes, grief is a key component to making this story work but it's handled in such glacial and cookie-cutter way. But the third act picks up the action, takes the emotions of grief from glumly plodding to raw and frantic and still gives the morose some space - grief is complicated. So that's another part of what makes the third act work so well. Enjoyable movie overall, but hard at time to want to stay invested.
Genuinely terrifying and disturbing. Makes you think as well.