10 Horror Movies That Aren’t About What You Think

Come to Daddy is one of the most delightfully surprising horror movies in recent years. Lord of the Rings star Elijah Wood has always been drawn to weird, eccentric genre pics since hanging up his hairy feet as Frodo Baggins, but this 2020 effort is easily his strangest project yet.

Ostensibly, it's about a young man - played by Wood - who attempts to reconnect to his father after not seeing him for decades. The thing is, even this whole set up is steeped in mystery, as it's unclear why Wood's character was contacted out of the blue and why his father - who constantly berates him when he arrives - is so hostile towards his son.

You expect the movie to explore this dynamic, and have some kind of sinister reveal explaining why the two needed to reconnect or why the father was missing.

However, the father actually dies from a heart attack before the end of the first act. It then becomes a film about the son having to live with the body of his dead father as the morgue is too busy to pick it up, all the while strange noises keep him up at night.

Is the father haunting the house, or is something supernatural afoot? Well, no, it turns out his real father is actually being held hostage in the basement, and is in a bit of a predicament.

Come to Daddy has twists within twists, and the movie you think you're in for at the beginning resembles nothing of the one you're stuck with at the end.