2024 · horror · monster
Daddy's Head
Directed by Benjamin Barfoot1h 32m2024
A boy and his stepmother fear for their safety after an eerie creature resembling the boy's recently deceased father visits them.
Our read: Daddy's Head (2024) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive horror · monster entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, extreme horror / monster, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- extreme
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“You want grief-soaked British folk horror with a child facing something uncanny.”
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