2020 In Review: Come To Daddy


Trailer Park Parasite


AKA: Dark comedy evolves into an absurd, violent, and surprising thriller before our very eyes!

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Ant Timpson’s Come To Daddy is not what anyone is expecting. At all. The plot begins as one thing and completely manipulates into another. No one could ever see the direction this film goes in, and it is all the more original for it.

An elongated father-son relationship explored through off-beat mood and quirky humor very quickly becomes a paranoid thriller, from one surprise to the next. What begins with uncomfortable tension in the first act evolves into absolute and utter chaos by the last. The film is calm until the moment it’s not. And then things become incredibly violent, and even more absurd. There’s some B-movie schlock mixed with spontaneous gore, and just watching Elijah Wood react to all the madness is black comedy gold. It’s fucking dandy.

CTD is hilarious, it’s shocking, it’s bizarre. It’s outrageous. And it’s much needed in these dark and desperate times.

Elijah Wood hasn’t played confused, isolated, and utterly terrified in such a role since Fellowship. MAYBE The Good Son. Who knows, either way he can be very good at choosing roles which harness just the right amount of strange.

Avoid every trailer and plot synopsis, at all costs. 
Go in blind. And good luck.


*10 points to Elijah Wood

* 10 points to Ant Timpson


Grade: B+

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