Head of the Family

A lurid blend of suburban satire and grotesque body horror that mines ’90s direct-to-video eccentricity for a bizarre, off-kilter cult experience.

• Full Moon’s low-budget flair delivers unsettling practical effects and twisted creature design straight from a basement mad scientist’s nightmare.
• J.W. Perra’s Myron Stackpool channels a B-movie supervillain vibe with a dash of campy menace, anchoring the film’s surreal tone.
• For fans of The ’Burbs and The Addams Family, but craving a harder R-rated shocker with unfiltered ’90s sleaze and oddball charm.
• The film’s uneven pacing and exploitation elements won’t be for everyone, but its weirdness is a time capsule of mid-’90s genre blending gone gloriously off the rails.