Psycho Dad: The Movie 6 - Epilogue (2020 film)

**Starring:** John Wilkes - Psycho Dad
Sam Wilkes Jr. - Sam Wilkes Holahan, Franky's meows
Lynette Tyler - Herself
 **Program Run:** September 2020 (Theatrical Release)
 **Distributor:** Austin Network (DVD)

Psycho Dad: The Movie 6 (also Psycho Dad: The Movie 6 - Epilogue) is an Australian movie that shows the outbursts of Psycho Dad, along with a selection of vlogs filmed throughout the four days. Originally planned as a two week movie (about just below two hours) before Sam Wilkes Jr. abruptly ended recording. This was the last film for Sam Wilkes Jr. as he died in April 2020. The release date of this film is in September 2020, despite an April 2020 release before requesting extensions in May and June and again in late July. The film had been released in September 2020 and had been distributed to DVD on January 17, 2021. Psycho Dad: The Movie 6 ceased sales at the end of 2022 as part of it's 2-year release lifespan.

Upon what would have been Psycho Dad's 79th birthday in 2023, Psycho Dad: The Movie 6 - Epilogue will re-screen to mark the occasion, with the title music to be replaced with a version performed by the cameraman of Psycho Dad: The Movie 7 & 8 as the predecessors have passed away in 2019 & 2020. This limited re-screening will only take place on 8 October 2023, a reference to Psycho Dad's birth.

## Production and Development

The sixth film was first announced in November 2019 and was confirmed by December. Filming commenced on 7 January and filming concluded on January 15, 2020. Filming was originally to conclude on January 21, 2020 but because of Sam Wilkes Jr.'s triggering allergies while up north and John's wild behaviour at this time, Sam Wilkes Jr. had returned to Brisbane a week before.

Everyone that portrayed the main characters in the fifth film reprised their roles for the sixth film. Austin wasn't as lucky to reprise his role due to his death. Sam Wilkes Jr. took over Austin's role. John and Jim reprised their roles. Warren makes a short appearance in the film as well. This was the last film for both Jim and Warren. This would remain the only film featuring Sam Wilkes Jr. as he is only voiced the cameraman in the sequel Psycho Dad: The Movie 7.

## Cast

Austin Holahan - Sam Wilkes Holahan (pre-regeneration)

Sam Wilkes Jr. - Sam Wilkes Holahan (post-regeneration), Franky's meow vocals

John Wilkes - Psycho Dad

Jim - Himself (cat)

Warren - Himself

Lynette Tyler - Herself (cameo)

## Plot

Sam (Austin Holahan) opens with him laying on the bed, about to regenerate, which he regenerates in to a similar looking person (Sam Wilkes Jr.). The opening sequences shows chopped footage from Psycho Dad: The Movie 4 & 5 (kind of like a homage to Austin Holahan, the original creator of the franchise). After the opening, Sam (Sam Wilkes Jr.) starts up the video at his then residence with Lyn and immediately afterwards arrives at the train station before departing northbound to the airport alone. His plane was originally departing northbound to Cairns at 9:50PM and an arrival time of 12:10AM at Cairns with boarding to commence at around 9:30PM but boarding was delayed until 10pm and departed Brisbane at 10:30pm. When he arrives in Cairns at 12:45AM, he exits the airport and Psycho Dad arrives to pick him up. Since Psycho Dad has a new future ahead, Sam is hoping that the holiday will go along smoothly compared to the other ones. The two arrive at Kurrimine Beach and go inside the lowset house. As Sam does a little tour of the recent changes made in the last 13 months, Psycho Dad decides to wind down and announces that he'll go shopping tomorrow. Sam shows Psycho Dad's bedroom and reveals the new Daikin airconditioner. The next day, Psycho Dad is driving home with windshield wipers squawking and performs a hand exercise. These two then take shopping bags inside and the cat Monstrous (Jim) continuously gets in the way. Sam and Psycho Dad then fill up the fridge with coca-cola cans while Monstrous continues to create trouble for them both, particularly fixating the trouble on Sam. During the printing process, Psycho Dad finds out that his HP DeskJet printer requires genuine cartridges, not substitutes. Psycho Dad expresses his hate for computers and then consults the User Manual and cartridge instructions but to no avail. After an attempted reboot, he gives up and decides to return the cartridge back to the shop in town. At Wongaling Beach, the two go shopping at the local Woolworths Supermarket. Afterwards, the two continue sightseeing at Mission Beach and discover the walking track and Old Mission site. The next day, these two go to Etty Bay and just before they get to the beach, they discover the large, angry, flightless bird named the "Cassowary". Sam films the Cassowary walking for a big substantial amount of seconds and then says that it's too early to go swimming. A few days later, they go to Tully, where it is raining and decide to take shelter at The Golden Gumboot public toilet area where the two discover the map of Tully. Later that day, Sam and Psycho Dad then go on to the Allgator's Nest where they both take a look at the swimming hole. As the two left, Psycho Dad had a march fly buzzing around behind him which then flew to Sam. He then ran to the car to get the fly away from him. Back home, Monstrous is under foot again with Psycho Dad before Monstrous gets in to eating dinner. He then leaves the house. Now that the week is over, Sam finally decides to head back home and thinks that now is perfect to farewell the cat, Warren and the entirety of Kurrimine Beach. Before Sam goes back home, he stops at Flying Fish Point and the Coconuts, providing video footage of both beaches. Then, info of what both Sam and Psycho Dad got up to before Sam boarded the Multilink bus service to Cairns Airport. Following the text that was displayed, video footage of QANTAS taking off for the southbond flight appears on screen. The plane lands at Brisbane Airport and Sam makes his way out of the airport and up two escalators before end credits roll. Then, a short video clip of himself is displayed saying he is at Altandi Station and will soon be home. Some text shows up on the screen saying "This has been a fun whirlwind for the last five years. In the end though, everyone does get what they want". This stated that Psycho Dad and the family got what they wanted. Sam then arrives home and is happy to be back, which then follows up with what happened with the characters. Two characters are expected to die in the 2020s. The end credits continue. As of March 2022, two actors have died, those were Sam Wilkes Jr. (died 21 April 2020) and John Wilkes (died 1 March 2022). During the end credits, it was mentioned that Sam Wilkes Holahan had previously died on August 8, 2019 as well as Sam Wilkes Jr. eventually ending up dead on April 21, 2020.

The four products follow after the end credits, much like the previous films (with the logos Samsung, Telstra, Sam's VIP Office and PawPatrolFan Adventure Bay Studio showing one after the other). This was the last film to be filmed with Samsung smartphone equipment because the 7th film is filmed with Oppo smartphone equipment, as well as for Samsung because OPPO takes over in the sequel and the last for Sam's VIP Office as Sam's New VIP Office 2020 takes over for the 7th film.

## Future Follow-up movies

Sam Wilkes Jr. says that there will be no more Psycho Dad movies to follow. However in June 2020, there was one more film to follow, the Southbound trip to Russell Island, which is slated to be the last film to finish the franchise which had begun back in 2015.

Sam Wilkes Jr. had one final spinoff movie shoot to finish the franchise. Austin's Final Wish (formerly Sam's Final Wish from mid-2020 - September 2023) was filmed 26 January 2020 - 28 January 2020. Sam Wilkes Jr. later passed away on April 21, the youngest person in the family to have passed away after birth.

In June 2020, Sam Wilkes Sr. had announced that a possible 7th movie documenting the trip to Russell Island from Kurrimine Beach may be possible and if approved, will be released sometime in early 2021. The 7th film was initially going to be John's final film role due to his advancing age (as he was last reported to be in his late 70s in early 2021). Sam Wilkes Jr. also announced to reprise the role in future films but he was only able to provide voicing in early-mid April 2020 and died about 12 days before video production and recording began which lead to Sam Wilkes Sr. taking over the filming and the physical role of the lead character.

Psycho Dad: The Movie 7 was originally slated for a December 2020 release but got slightly delayed to January 2021.

Psycho Dad: The Movie 8 followed up in January 2022, the last with John as Psycho Dad.