Maybe what Dad really wants for Father's Day - instead of that goofy tie - is unbridled terror and mayhem.  If that's the case, here is a run-down of father 'n' son films to make any father's skin crawl!  Enjoy...

Frailty
In this haunting and atmospheric slice of Southern Gothic horror, Fenton Meiks (played as an adult by Matthew McConaughey) reports to the FBI that he knows the identity of the serial killer known as God?s Hands. The film shows Fenton?s childhood in flashbacks as his religiously fanatical father (played by Bill Paxton, who makes his directorial debut here) receives what he believes to be visions from God. When these visions lead the father to commit a series of murders to eliminate ?demons? that inhabit human bodies, Fenton must decide to either go along with his father?s wishes or to stand up against him. Against the visually-rich backdrop of murder and the macabre, Frailty, in essence, depicts the savage emotional evolution of a young man in his adolescence in the wake of his father?s dominance. A stunning and original piece of horror cinema that ensures you never look at fatherhood the same way again!

Death Sentence 
A cracker-jack explosion of gritty action and violence, Death Sentence, directed by James Wan (Saw, Dead Silence), shows the downward spiral of a normal family man Nick Hume (Kevin Bacon) who seeks revenge against the hoodlums that killed his son in a gang initiation. When the court system fails him, he decides to seek justice on his own, which only escalates the violence towards him and his family. Left with nothing to lose and blinded by rage, Nick steadily declines from civility to vigilante as he seeks to destroy all those who have taken from him. Wan?s incredible visual style (exemplified by an impressive chase sequence in a parking garage) exquisitely frames the lengths that one man will go through to protect the people he loves. Nick is definitely one dad you don't want to mess with.

Jaws 2
Nothing strengthens the father and son bond quite like being attacked by a giant, man-eating shark.  That?s the situation Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) and his son Mike (Mark Gruner) find themselves in.  Brody finds evidence that another shark is plaguing the waters of Amity Island.  He also soon learns that his son Mike has snuck off to go sailing with some friends.  Dad must now risk life and limb to rescue them.  Looks like Mike is in for some punishment, but who?s going to deal it out, his father or the shark?

District 9
In this film, the victims are the alien creatures and the scary monsters are the human beings.  Alien "prawn" Christopher Johnson and his young son make a great team, and their sole desire is to return to their home planet.  An interfering human screws it all up, however, turning this father and son's escape into blood-soaked chaos.  Alien fathers, teach your kids well: never talk to human beings.

Creepshow
This film really nails it when it comes to father 'n' son skirmishes.  Poor Billy gets smacked around by his grumpy father Tom Atkins just because Billy digs scary comic books.  "That's why God made fathers, babe." says Tom.  What a jerk!  And if that wasn't enough to make Creepshow a perfect Father's Day horror flick, there's also this minor issue of a zombie dad rising from the grave, demanding his Father's Day cake.  Just another dysfunctional family ruining an otherwise lovely holiday.

Pumpkinhead
Forget those how-to books about parenting.  Lance Henriksen is gonna show you how it's done.  If your son is accidently killed by motorcycle-riding yahoos, the proper course of action is to find the creepiest, scariest witch possible, way out in the woods, and have her raise a demon creature to slam some revenge down on the morons who took your kid from you.  If more problems were handled in this way, there'd be fewer yahoos putting kids' lives in danger!

Pet Sematary
I consider Pet Sematary one of the top three books of Stephen King's career.  (Along with The Stand and The Shining)  Mary Lambert's motion picture also happens to be among the best of the Stephen King adaptations.  Just please remember - bringing your deceased son back to life by burying him in cursed soil typically leads to unpleasantness.

28 Weeks Later
In Juan Carlos Fresnadillo?s gripping sequel to 28 Days Later, a plan to repopulate a virus-ravaged England goes horribly awry as the deadly infection resurfaces, leaving a small band of frantic survivors - including young Andy (Mackintosh Muggleton) and Tammy (Imogen Poots) - to make their desperate escape. Amidst the larger-scale canvas of destruction and chaos that Fresnadillo creates, the film focuses on the intimate story of the children who have lost their parents in this tragedy. It?s never an easy thing to lose a parent, but the situation can be even harder to endure when a father (here played by Robert Carlyle) is infected and wants to tear his children limb from bloody limb!

The Shining 
Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) takes on a job as winter caretaker at the Overlook Hotel, and brings his wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and son Danny (Danny Lloyd) to spend the winter there.  Unfortunately, the hotel is not quite as empty as it seems.  Jack and Danny soon face terrifying encounters with the hotel's spectral tenants, traumatizing Danny and causing Jack to descend into madness.  Jack becomes convinced that he must "correct" his son.  And what better way to keep your kid in line than by chasing him through a big, scary hotel with an axe?

The Omen
No one said becoming a parent is easy, but what if your child turned out to literally be the Antichrist?  Robert Thorn (Gregory Peck) comes to find the connection between his sinister son, a series of mysterious deaths, and a biblical prophecy about the end of the world.  Sounds like it?ll take more than a time out to fix this problem!

HONORABLE MENTIONS:  Father knows best in Frontier(S), a frenetic whiplash of depravity in which a deranged patriarch (and former Nazi war criminal) rules over his family with a bloody iron fist.  In Teen Wolf, Michael J. Fox has the ultimate awkward father and son talk when he discovers his father, like son, is a werewolf.  The Empire Strikes Back contains the most famous line of father / son dialog in film history.  And in the jet-black comedy Happiness young Billy turns to his father for sexual advice, only to unveil his father?s own bizarre and shocking sexual urges.  It ain't a horror movie - but Happiness may possibly be the most shocking film on this list!

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