Five-Legged Iguana

¡QUÉ HORROR! 2020

Candidate #2

COME TO DADDY

(April 2019)

“Dear Son,

“It’s me. Your Dad.

“It’s been awhile, hasn’t it?”

Stephen McHattie and Elijah Wood kick off the brutal, blackly comic Come to Daddy, in which Wood’s Norval Greenwood, prompted by a letter from his long estranged father--who abandoned him and his mother decades ago--pays his old man a visit.

This isn’t the father he’s imagined for so long, though.

And, given that this is ¡Qué horror!, after all, there’s good reason for that…

Springing from an idea of Ant Timpson, co-producer of The ABCs of Death and The Field Guide to Evil anthologies, Come to Daddy is Timpson’s feature directorial debut, working off a screenplay by Toby Harvard, who wrote ABCs of Death 2’s “G is for Grandad”.

 

Come to Daddy is a gruesomely fun ride, the kind of slippery genre film that defies easy labels, a bizarro hybrid that cheekily opens with quotes from Shakespeare and Beyoncé, and wraps up on an oddly sobering note.

Check it out if you’re into horror that’s wild, gory, and wickedly unpredictable.

“Do what you have to do, son!”

(Come to Daddy OS’ courtesy of impawards.com.)