Elijah was on Late Night with Seth Meyers on February 6. I added a few photos and there’s also youtube clips from the interview. Where Elijah talks about a fall he had, how he quit smoking and when he found out his girlfriend was pregnant. The second clip is after the jump, read more to see the full post.
New photos have been added from the photocall of Come to Daddy at the Alamo Drafthouse in Los Angeles. You can see pictures of Elijah and Ant Timpson down below.
The trailer for Come to Daddy is out. Saban Films will release Timpson’s Come To Daddy in select US theaters + on VOD starting February 7th, 2020 View it below.
Toronto After Dark is showing Come to Daddy and it runs October 17-25th It is now completely sold out.
Here’s a new picture from it.
Critics have called his new film “gleefully nasty,” “gross and goofy,” a “frenzied thriller” and a “gore-filled bloodbath”.
His own wife elbowed him in the stomach during a screening and said: “Did you have to go that far?”
But local film-maker Ant Timpson says Come to Daddy, his directorial debut, isn’t messed up at all.
“It’s not completely over the top,” says Timpson ahead of Come to Daddy’s big screen debut at the New Zealand International Film Festival later this month, the event’s biggest local movie.
“It’s far more accessible than some of the other films I’ve been involved in. It’s more of a slow burn that starts picking up speed then goes a bit bonkers.”
Timpson is a familiar face in the local film industry, a key figure who has curated the Incredibly Strange section of the International Film Festival since 1994 (Come to Daddy was selected independently for the festival’s main section) and spearheaded the 48 Hour Film Festival in 2004.
The 53-year-old’s produced many twisted horror films over the past few years, including Deathgasm, The Greasy Strangler and The ABCs of Death.
But Come to Daddy is being hailed as his most accessible film yet. Reviews have been overwhelmingly positive: Indiewire called it as “an absurd gross-out romp that turns into a tearjerker” and rated it a B+, while Film Threat said it was “smart, uncompromising, inventive and just downright hilarious” in a 10/10 review.
It features local actress Madeleine Sami alongside Lord of the Rings star Elijah Wood, who plays Norval, a DJ who is invited to return to his home in Oregon to reunite with his estranged father, played by Stephen McHattie.
Continue reading Come to Daddy: Is this the New Zealand International Film Festivals most messed-up movie?This year’s FrightFest film festival opens with the UK premiere of Ant Timpson’s deviously edgy stunner Come to Daddy.
Arrow Video FrightFest, the UK’s biggest genre film festival, runs from Thursday 22 August to Monday 26 August at the Empire Cinema, Leicester Square and the Prince Charles Cinema. The full line up will be announced on Thurs July 4. Festival & day passes go on sale from Sat July 6. Tickets for Individual films are on sale from Sat July 20
More information can be read here: Frightfest
Come to Daddy premiering at the New Zealand International Film Festival on July 26 and July 31. More details can be read on the site.