Daddy's Head

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Daddy's Head

Released Oct 11

1h 37m

Horror

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In the wake of his father's untimely death, a young boy is left in the eerie solitude of a sprawling country estate with his newly widowed stepmother. Struggling to navigate the overwhelming task of parenthood, his stepmother grows distant, leaving their fragile bond at risk of collapse. Amidst the growing tension, the boy begins to hear unsettling sounds echoing through the corridors, and is soon haunted by the presence of a grotesque creature bearing a disturbingly familiar resemblance to his late father. As the boy's warnings are dismissed as the imagination of a grieving child, the sinister entity tightens its grip on their crumbling lives.

Alison Foreman

indieWire

Daddy’s Head isn’t likely to stick around as a film that genre fans will revisit often, but as far as haunting and half-baked ghost stories, Shudder subscribers could do worse than this sort-of-good-sort-of-bad pain in the neck.

Rated: B

Oct 10, 2024

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Phil Hoad

Guardian

A monster, or the supernatural, as a manifestation of uncontainable emotions is hardly a new idea... Daddy’s Head adopts this increasingly familiar tactic, and just about succeeds in freshening it up.

Rated: 3/5

Oct 8, 2024

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Meagan Navarro

Bloody Disgusting

Daddy’s Head is handsomely crafted, with a creature design that’s pure nightmare fuel.

Rated: 3.5/5

Sep 28, 2024

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Elliott Collins

Movie Files

I wanted more from the storytelling and I wished it had better payoffs and better pacing because after about 45 mins of nothing happening, you start to see the story fall apart. The characters' emotional elements were blatantly one-dimensional.

Rated: 2/5

Oct 20, 2024

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Dennis Harvey

48 Hills

Precise and confident in execution, if ambiguous in content, Daddy’s Head is a strikingly atmospheric cipher.

Oct 15, 2024

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Jericho Tadeo

MovieWeb

A slow-burn dance between horror and heart

Rated: 3.5/5

Oct 15, 2024

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Oaklee D

This movie was ok but it is just ok, with such a unique premise for the film I thought so much more could of been done. In conclusion it's not as good as it could of been.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

11/03/24

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Christian K

The monster is definitely spooky and well presented and has good performances. The plot is pretty whatever and the scope is barebones but its worth it I think?

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

11/01/24

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Travis M

[SPOILERS] When you kill the family dog (which itself is a questionable trope) just to up the stakes for the characters but then can't fully decide if one of the major supporting characters is alive or not at the end, you might want to question "is this script ready?" and "have i really fleshed things out enough?" before making it. Also, someone remind me to watch Babadook again.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

10/30/24

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diane S

This would have been a stunner of a horror movie had they kept the head pale and blurry because when they began to flesh it out more and give it color it just became silly.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

10/24/24

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Thirdi A

its good in the last 45 minutes but up until that point its a snoozer. I was not expecting Krang from the 90's ninja turtles to be the bad guy but it wasnt enough for me to recommend watching

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

10/27/24

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Rebecca S

I kept waiting for it to get good. It didn't.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

10/22/24

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Benjamin Barfoot

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Julia Brown

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Rupert Turnbull

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Charles Aitken

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Nathaniel Martello-White

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Benjamin Barfoot

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Synopsis

In the wake of his father's untimely death, a young boy is left in the eerie solitude of a sprawling country estate with his newly widowed stepmother. Struggling to navigate the overwhelming task of parenthood, his stepmother grows distant, leaving their fragile bond at risk of collapse. Amidst the growing tension, the boy begins to hear unsettling sounds echoing through the corridors, and is soon haunted by the presence of a grotesque creature bearing a disturbingly familiar resemblance to his late father. As the boy's warnings are dismissed as the imagination of a grieving child, the sinister entity tightens its grip on their crumbling lives.

Director: Benjamin Barfoot
Producer: Mathew James Wilkinson, Patrick Tolan
Screenwriter: Benjamin Barfoot
Distributor: Shudder
Genre: Horror
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 11, 2024, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 11, 2024
Runtime: 1h 37m