as far as The mainstream adopted horror films Within it, and now we have the opportunity to make it to the big screen with massive budgets, it’s always been the genre A refuge for certain momentskeys that manage to induce chills without requiring a lot of means. This has its good side, but also its trap, as a lot of small projects are produced without benefits, although from time to time, among them A little gem that looks like Daddy’s head.
Production for platforms It became difficult to track Even more so when there is no Shudder platform in Spain, so these premieres are usually distributed in different windows, in this case, the work of Benjamin Barfoot Already in the Planet Horror catalogueEven if it’s a year late. A priori, there’s nothing surprising in a film limited to about three actors (and a dog) that deals, for a change at this point, with metaphors through monsters, About sadness.
Grief, cosmic creatures, and the family we create
In reality, The approach is not much different from that babadooksince we have a child He loses his father in an accident The car and not long after that a creature appeared in his life. The difference is that Here he is in charge of his young stepmotherWhich the boy has not yet fully accepted into his family. Difference, which completely changes the dynamic compared to Jennifer Kent, focuses on the mother’s plight in dealing with depression.
barefoot He doesn’t play the potential hallucination card Because of the mental health, it also does not spread the seeds of mystery in the horror to come. There is a scene where something hits the ground, and from that moment on the woman and the boy They are being chased by a strange, mysterious creature Who begins to appear with a face eerily similar to his dead father’s face. Biological mimicry has a little trick to manipulate its potential lunch.
The mother mistook him for an animal Incredible version boyHe is excited to think that his father has returned, which complicates the grieving process and their already strained relationship. Very interesting approachBecause in the distance and encounter between the two lies a heart Daddy’s head, It is also considered a memory for adultswith the boy returning home and coming to terms with the most bizarre event in his past, just like the teens in purpose.
The difference is that here Pennywise is an unknown entityWe don’t know much about him, but we see how he builds his polygonal hideout and how he works. Weaving in some not-so-explicit Lovecraftian connectionsBut it expands the wavelength of what is, in principle, a very intimate story. And although emotionally he has a hook, It’s in his ability to create goosebumps where he stands outbeing a kind of “artie” version of Extroa sick classic video store.
The dark side of childhood memories
In it, an alien He comes to Earth in the form of an absent father Who wants to take his son, and create some surreal and physical horror images given to him A growing cult status. Daddy’s head It doesn’t go to the extremes of the British film, but there is something deeply disturbing about the picture Father’s face in the ventilation ducts Or at the end of the burrow you try to attract him; Scenes of primal childhood fears and flashback nightmares that generate inexplicable fear.
So grim concept I could stick more to fairy tales Black Hearted is more than the science fiction that the story would be credited with, however, It is not a trivial matter for a child to see his father’s faceAs the accident disfigured him, he does not have the opportunity to see his face for the last time. The fact that we count Extraordinary memoryan essential truth viewed from the present that steps firmly into reality, leaving a sad residue that keeps it small and simple. A sentimental note to end it with.
At the heart of the conflict between stepmother and child is the bright side of families that arise thanks to shared experiences and not social doctrines of inheritance. This is what yes It’s associated with those films that talk about trauma and grief In the form of wonderful incarnations that continue to appear on screen, without going any further this year That thing with wings also Shadow woman. But aspirations Daddy’s head They don’t shoot that high either, it’s a small project Minimalist spirit.
There are only three or four ideas, which are well put together, and leave room for spooky epiphanies. Never stop being the starAs if it were a narrated version of those videos created for social networks like tiktok, Related to creepypastas And the analog horror trend on YouTube. A vague vision of memories of Amblin cinema with a melancholic tone and similar to other recent productions that almost move on the margins and are worth recalling as… g also Come play.