Father's Day(2011)
2011 · Adam Brooks & Jeremy Gillespie & Matthew Kennedy & Steven Kostanski & Conor Sweeney · 99 min
Ahab, a man obsessed with exacting a brutal, violent revenge on the man who murdered his dad, joins John, an eager priest, and Twink, a hot-headed street hustler, on an epic quest to find and defeat this mythical monster known as Chris Fuchman AKA The Father's Day Killer.
Action · Comedy · Horror
5.4104 votes
TMDB score
4/5
Intensity
5/5
Gore
2/5
Stays with you
How scary is Father's Day?
Watching this feels like being blasted with nonstop, gleeful shock value rather than being scared in any traditional sense. It's less about dread or jump scares and more about piling on absurd, over-the-top gross-out violence until it becomes darkly funny. The pace is frantic and chaotic, jumping from one insane set piece to the next with no real breathing room. It's made for fans of extreme, tasteless horror comedy who want to laugh and cringe at the same time, not for anyone looking for genuine unease.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, Father's Day rates psychological 1/5, visceral 4/5, gore 5/5, lingering effect 2/5, and overall intensity 4/5.
- Psychological: 1 of 5
- Visceral: 4 of 5
- Gore: 5 of 5
- Lingering: 2 of 5
- Intensity: 4 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 25 of 100 — leans Slow burn
Supernatural vs Real-world: 15 of 100 — leans Supernatural
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 30 of 100 — leans Fun-scary
Intensity over runtime
Shape only — no eventsReveal pacing shapeHide pacing shapeHidden by default — shows where the tension peaks and lets up.
A gleefully unhinged, over-the-top ride that stays cranked up high with only brief gross-out breathers, building to a berserk, all-out finale.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 2, 3, 3, 4, 3, 4, 3, 4, 5, 5, 5, 4.
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