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Year (Jahr): 2024
Release Date (Veröffentlichungsdatum): 2024-10-10
Duration (Spieldauer): 92 min
Director (Regie): Benjamin Barfoot
Actors (Schauspieler): James Harper-Jones, Rupert Turnbull, Julia Brown
Writers (Drehbuch): Benjamin Barfoot
Title (Originaltitel): Daddy's Head
Country (Land): United Kingdom
Original language (Original-Sprache): English

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Metascore: 69% | TMDB: 6.0
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Isaac gets sent into a hospital room for a “goodbye.” You’d expect a final conversation, maybe a tearful goodbye with proper closure. Nope. What he finds is a bandaged form, kept alive by machines and not exactly responsive to human emotion. Worse, his father appears to have no face. It’s the kind of detail that makes grief feel less like a process and more like a jump scare with paperwork.
And then there’s nobody to lean on. His mother is gone, he has no siblings, and his stepmother Laura (Julia Brown) is buried under her own mourning, like grief is a full-time job and Isaac is just… paperwork she can’t get to.
To make it even stranger, something resembling Isaac’s recently dead dad shows up. Friendly? Not really. Safe? Definitely no. The horror isn’t subtle. It just waits for Isaac to realize he’s out of options.
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Krankenhaus. Flüstern. Isaac soll sich von seinem Vater verabschieden. Klingt nach einem dieser Momente, die man eigentlich kurz durchatmet und dann weiterlebt. Nur dass das „Weiterleben“ hier ausfällt: Im Bett liegt eine bandagierte Gestalt, am Leben gehalten von Maschinen, ohne dass sie auf Isaac reagiert. Und dann dieses Detail: Der Mann hat offenbar kein Gesicht mehr. Perfekt, um Trauer nicht nur zu fühlen, sondern direkt mit einem kalten Schauer serviert zu bekommen.
Und als wäre das nicht schon schlimm genug, ist da niemand zum Reden. Isaacs Mutter ist tot, Geschwister gibt’s nicht, und seine Stiefmutter Laura (Julia Brown) ist so in ihrer eigenen Trauer versunken, dass sie kaum Luft für ihn hat. Doch plötzlich taucht etwas auf, das nach Dad aussieht. Sicher. Ruhig. Und ziemlich ungesund.

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00:03You need to say goodbye.
00:06He's not going to live.
00:09Goodbye, Daddy.
00:13Isaac has no next of kin.
00:15What does that mean?
00:16He will need someone.
00:20I can't do this.
00:22Give it time.
00:23He's barely spoken to me since we got married.
00:27It will come.
00:37Isaac.
00:42Dad?
00:43Come to the forest.
00:48What are you looking at?
00:50Isaac?
00:52Dad.
00:54He's in the forest.
00:56Hiding in trees.
00:58His body's different.
01:00What do you mean?
01:01Do you think you could draw him for me?
01:07You're obviously both struggling with the situation.
01:10He needs love.
01:12Bella!
01:15There's a knife missing.
01:17We were playing.
01:22Dad!
01:26Come.
01:28Don't be scared.
01:31Dad!
01:33I know there's something wrong!
01:36Mommy, stop!
01:45I can't be here!
01:52Everyone must know he's here.
02:01I can't be here!
02:04Everyone must know he's here.
02:05I know!
02:05Those of you who you need to know those lights, theilikers, the lighting, the lighting, the lighting, the lighting, the
02:05lighting, the lighting, the lighting, the lighting, the lighting, the lighting, and the lighting.
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