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WHAT’S YOUR FAVOURITE SCARY MOVIE?

COME TO DADDY

OPENING FILM, UK PREVIEW

An urban hipster faces major daddy issues in respected genre producer Ant Timpson’s directorial debut feature. Written by co-writer Toby Harvard (based on an idea by Timpson), we meet the 30-something Norval (a career best performance by Elijah Wood) who’s been invited to his father’s space-age design cliff house. Nervous and desperate to impress his perpetually uncaring dad, Norval stretches the truth about his life until finally his father’s growing animosity towards him reaches a dark fever pitch. From here on, all genre-blending bets are off as this hilarious, gross and shocking-to-the-extreme adventure moves smartly towards

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