In “Come to Daddy” a wide-eyed Elijah Wood, who stars as Norval, a thirty-something underachiever living with mom in Los Angeles, carries a mystery note from his long-estranged alcoholic father telling him to visit his remote, ocean-front house in Oregon. When Dad (Stephen McHattie) opens the door, it starts off a horrific journey for Norval. Norval nervously hopes for a reunion, or at least closure, to his daddy issues, but New Zealand-born director Ant Timpson’s gory comedic horror would rather delve into full-throttled genre cliches than tackle the psychological battle between father and son. Sure, dad would rather bait his son than bond, that’s what you get when you have to contend with a toxic and acerbic man-child, but what starts off as a promising comic thriller deflates quickly as Thompson would rather concentrate on the gore and how daddy may be a psychopath than the ties that bind. Written by Toby Harvard and Ant Timpson, this SXSW title is destined to go nowhere. [C]
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