Celebrate Father’s Day with Horror’s Best and Worst Dads
Steve Barton
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Ed Wilson, Natural Born Killers
Actor:: Rodney Dangerfield
Mallory’s father, Ed Wilson, portrayed by Rodney Dangerfield no less, is the epitome of the American scumbag husband – you know, the one who heckles his wife, expects that his word be law, and violates his daughter on a regular basis. He finally gets what’s coming to him by the time Mickey hits the scene (like, Mickey and Mallory 4-Ever!), but his actions up to the point where Mallory runs away with Mickey are completely inexcusable. The licentious patriarch and his various sexist remarks are made even more creepworthy by the scenes being shot as a sitcom parody.
Actor: Peter Mullan
At first glance Session 9’s Gordon doesn’t seem like a bad guy. He’s a new father and loving husband…until you see he likes to slap his wife when she accidentally spills boiling water on him. He’s not so much of a fantastic man then and becomes even less of one at the climax of Session 9 when part of a dissociative personality disorder “tells” him to murder both his wife and small daughter – in fact, that’s actually what had happened all along. A bit of an extreme reaction, wouldn’t you say? Prime candidate for Father of the Year material right here.
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