I Bet You Missed This Chilling, Atmospheric 2024 Folk Horror That Quietly Landed on Shudder Last Year
Daddy's Head is a deeply disturbing folk horror that explores grief through a monster movie lens.
The best horrorfilms are the ones that don't forget feelings. Sure, fans love outright blood and gore, but it's only the exceptional features that show the horror of human emotions to create multi-faceted visions of terror. Audiences have seen many movies in recent years that imbue their fear with this sense of dread, but few have done this as devastatingly well as Benjamin Barfoot'sDaddy's Head. It's an instantly sad premise; the brutal death of a loving family man leaves behind a son and stepmother, with this pair forced to confront the awkward reality of coexisting when the person who bonded them is gone.
