Brutal violence abounds in these coastal mysteries, but they're not all show.

| Dec 30, 2020

Incredibly violent and very fun and very strange.

| Feb 15, 2020

Any film that opens quoting William Shakespeare and Beyoncé is meant to be regarded with skepticism and giggles, but this dog gets sillier by the minute.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Feb 14, 2020

Providing both a tight script and interesting directing, and blending the best of indie horror with B-movie violence and gore, it's exactly what it needs to be for both the audience and Norval.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 8, 2020

For anyone who can suppress the urge to gag, Come To Daddy's enthusiasm can be catching.

| Feb 7, 2020

A film that's as clever as it is strange.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 7, 2020

Unfortunately, the movie is far more effective in its first half than its second, which degenerates into cheap shocks, absurd plot contrivances and vulgarism for its own sake.

| Feb 6, 2020

If you're a fan of action or crime movies and you're prepared to wait halfway through a 94-minute film for the violence to start, you might be glad you stuck around.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 6, 2020

Is it "The Tell-Tale Heart"? "Cape Fear"? "Manchester by the Sea"? "Home Alone"? "Come To Daddy" borrows something from all of those, but feels wholly original at the same time.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 6, 2020

Come to Daddy is a stylistically impressive and disconcertingly lovely shot across the absurdist bow that plays havoc with genre conventions and as such impresses with its utterly unique take on father/son reunification and the perils thereof.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 6, 2020

Enjoyable performances... hold the film to its redemptive goals, even as it descends into what can only be described as bloody bedlam.

| Feb 6, 2020

"Come to Daddy..." does deliver a good, sick twist; and sometimes that's enough.

| Feb 6, 2020

Wood's excellent and empathetic performance proves to be the anchor point, the port in this bloody, vulgar storm.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 6, 2020

And though the eventual reveal is certainly strange, it's almost distractingly so; it's less an "aha!" moment and more a "wait, what?"

| Feb 4, 2020

[Wood] has to do a lot of selling here, but I bought most of it.

| Nov 8, 2019

Wild, weird and yet nothing less than wholly sincere in its focus on the father-son relationship at the core of the film, Timpson's brilliant debut feature reveals an unambiguously great filmmaker

| Oct 17, 2019

As the plot thickens and the genre keeps shifting, this will turn out to be a funny, violent, increasingly unhinged caper of simple men

| Aug 19, 2019

While "Come To Daddy" dials up its gruesomeness to maximum noise, even the collectively therapeutic "ewws" and stress-release claps wear thin, as the onscreen gore starts feeling like a bore.

| May 1, 2019

Director Ant Timpson's feature debut is a messed-up, funny exploration of the fraught familial relationship, defying genre and expectation at every hairpin turn.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 28, 2019

If you're looking for something that's a bit ghoulish, gross, and goofy, check out Come To Daddy. It's a deranged bit of fun for the whole deeply f*cked up family.

| Apr 26, 2019