Come to Daddy

Inicialmente um drama denso sobre a reunião de pai e filho após cerca de trinta anos, baseado na premissa de que o pai se tornou ao longo dos anos um bêbado odioso e louco, de cuja cabana na selva não há para onde fugir, após uma grande reviravolta a meio da história, muda para outro género, que praticamente não está relacionado com o enredo anterior e, além disso, de forma um pouco bizarra, passa a linha entre thriller de suspense e comédia negra maluca. No papel, pode ter parecido interessante e divertido, mas a realização é insatisfatória - é derrubado por uma série de erros de direção e argumento e por um protagonista desesperadamente pouco carismático. (21/10/2019)

Depois de uma excelente abertura psicológica e misteriosa com todas as cartas completamente escondidas debaixo da mesa, torna-se um jogo de matar barato com simpatias mal distribuídas entre os personagens e com um desenvolvimento de enredo idiota. E o personagem mais interessante e melhor interpretado é o primeiro a abandonar o jogo. [Sitges FF] (10/10/2019)

Come to Daddy begins as a mysterious story about the reunion of a father and son, whose immense differences are very obvious from the very beginning. It soon becomes clear that something is wrong with the father and the substantial suspense starts to really build. After the turn of events in the middle of the movie, however, it starts to move in the direction of almost some pirate adventure yarn, and it starts to really lose its mysterious atmosphere, however, at least it then heads into a stylishly eccentric finale. The tasty bit is that Stephen McHattie and Michael Smiley in particular have great on-screen presence, meaning they should have been given even more screen-time than they were given. [Sitges 2019] (16/10/2019)

A black-humor journey praised abroad, where Elijah Wood goes to visit a father he's never seen, but everything will be different than he expected. The film quite interestingly creates unexpected twists and turns with a mixture of black humour, and there is a bit of violence, so it's not completely bad, but nothing that would make me fall on my ass either (though a stabbing with a pen dipped in excrement is something I’d never seen). It's good for one viewing and I'm glad Elijah Wood has dedicated himself to horror. 5,5/10. (11/02/2020)

The co-production Come to Daddy shows that horror movies can have an atmosphere that builds slowly from the idea that something evil is lurking in the woods, whether it is paranormal or not. Elijah Wood proves that he is quite good at choosing interesting projects, especially in terms of picking specific movies and movie genres that are intriguing, and that is very true of Come to Daddy. (06/03/2020)