Father of Flies

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Father of Flies

2021

1h 18m

Horror

Mystery & Thriller

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80%

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5 Reviews

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Fewer than 50 Ratings

When a young boy's mother is pushed out of the family home and replaced by his father's girlfriend, he finds himself confronting terrifying supernatural forces. Have they always been there, or have they hitched a ride with the new resident?

Leslie Felperin

Guardian

04/05/2022

2/5

The vagueness around the supernatural elements is intriguing but Edwards can’t quite kick the whole thing up a notch to make the material really thematically rich, and relies too much on sonically driven jump scares.

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Ygraine Hackett-Cantabrana

Moving Pictures Film Club

07/15/2024

3/5

Father of Flies then is a bleakly grim look at family tragedy and an exploration of the grief it breeds.

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Luke Spafford

Starburst

04/11/2022

5/5

The film takes nearly all the tropes of horror cinema and at times eschews them, gentle caressing them or flipping them on their head. There are not one, but two ridiculously creepy moments this well-versed writer has never seen on screen before.

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Luke Y. Thompson

Films Gone Wild

03/07/2022

Like true night terrors, it never lets the audience get a handle on exactly what the threat is, and therefore, how it can possibly be survived.

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Jennie Kermode

Eye for Film

01/22/2022

4/5

The confusion of incident and memory add to the sense of creepiness and disorientation which Tetlow's performance and the heightened visual style create.

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Seth H

@RT24962232 02/03/2025

This movie creates a reasonably scary atmosphere which is ultimately wasted for lack of a coherent plot. The acting is good and the music pulls its weight. But it's almost impossible to figure out the ending. To wit, a young boy's beloved mother has been exiled from the family home for mostly undisclosed reasons, while a creepy mask-wearing woman has moved in with him, his father and his rebellious older sister. About halfway through, the interloper is revealed to be pregnant, presumably by the father. With the latter temporarily absent and the weather glowering, she grabs a kitchen knife and has at it with the sister while the boy hides in fear. Meanwhile, an evil clown enjoys an extended gig on a menacing TV. A dotty neighbor appears to have the boy's best interests at heart, but it's not clear if she has any say or sway in the matter. Daddy rushes home after the girlfriend phones him in a (pretend?) panic, but whether anybody actually remains alive at that point is speculative.

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Jamie O

@RT09044280 05/10/2024

Just horrible. Not scary at all. Story is lame.

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dan b

@jbutler53 09/19/2022

I tried, just to boring nothing happened

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04/27/2022

This movie was terrible!!!

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Synopsis

When a young boy's mother is pushed out of the family home and replaced by his father's girlfriend, he finds himself confronting terrifying supernatural forces. Have they always been there, or have they hitched a ride with the new resident?

Director: Ben Charles Edwards
Producer: Ben Charles Edwards, Svana Gisla, Phil McKenzie, Emily Hunter Salveson, Kirsty Bell
Screenwriter: Ben Charles Edwards
Production Co: Streamline Global Group, Number 44, Goldfinch
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 12, 2022
Runtime: 1h 18m
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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