Within the wake of the movie’s World Premiere at Improbable Fest this Sunday, September 22, Benjamin Barfoot’s horror film Daddy’s Head is coming to Shudder on October 11.

Watch the official trailer for Daddy’s Head under.

“Daddy’s Head is an important movie for me because it intertwines private emotions about household, grief and trauma with my need to experiment with the horror style,” Barfoot previews.

Within the movie, “Within the wake of his father’s premature loss of life, a younger boy is left within the eerie solitude of a sprawling nation property along with his newly widowed stepmother. Struggling to navigate the overwhelming job of parenthood, his stepmother grows distant, leaving their fragile bond susceptible to collapse. Amidst the rising pressure, the boy begins to listen to unsettling sounds echoing by means of the corridors, and is quickly haunted by the presence of a grotesque creature bearing a disturbingly acquainted resemblance to his late father.

“Because the boy’s warnings are dismissed because the creativeness of a grieving little one, the sinister entity tightens its grip on their crumbling lives.”

Julia Brown, Rupert Turnbull, Charles Aitken, and Nathaniel Martello-White star.

Matthew James Wilkinson and Patrick Tolan of Stigma Movies produced Daddy’s Head.

Benjamin Barfoot is a self-taught filmmaker from Torbay, Devon. Starting with animation movies as a 𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑦, he shortly moved onto video the place he taught himself an array of abilities from cameras and enhancing to animation, visible results and sound design. Transferring to London with a brief animated movie he had made at dwelling, he was nominated for a Broadcast Younger Expertise Award and commenced reducing his tooth in London with every little thing from movie trailers, movement graphic promos to documentaries for BBC. While between these jobs, he continued to create his personal work, experimenting with darkish animated shorts to totally improvised comedies that he shot and edited.

It was these comedy movies, created along with his pal and collaborator Danny Morgan, that finally result in his directorial debut, Double Date. Launched in 2017 to cinemas nationwide, the movie noticed him shortlisted for a BIFA for finest debut director, while profitable finest worldwide characteristic at Strasbourg that 12 months. Benjamin additionally labored with the band Goat on the soundtrack. The success of this musical collaboration impressed him additional to experiment with music manufacturing while growing his personal unique screenplays. Daddy’s Head is Barfoot’s second characteristic; He wrote, directed and edited the movie, in addition to composed the soundtrack.