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.
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Toronto After Dark Film Festival
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.
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Come to Daddy: Is this the New Zealand International Film Festivals most messed-up movie?
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.
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Frightfest Film Festival
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
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New Zealand International Film Festival
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.
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SKRILLEX SERVED AS ELIJAH WOOD’S INSPIRATION FOR DJ ROLE IN NEW FILM
Actors, directors, and filmmakers often use real life subjects as inspirations for their works. Characters like Moe from The Simpsons, Kramer from Seinfeld, even Nacho Libre had real life inspirations. In Elijah Wood’s new role as a DJ and self-proclaimed music business mover-and-shaker in the film Come to Daddy, director Ant Timpson revealed he wanted the actor to emulate producer/DJ Skrillex.
“When Ant sent me the script, it came with a photo of Skrillex,” said Wood. “No joke. He was like, ‘This is kind of what I’m imagining.’ And I was like, Oh, f—, he must be kidding. Skrillex is fine. [But] his look is more extreme. I was like, ‘Oh s—, that is what he has in his head.’ And as we got into production, actually, his ideas got crazier. Like, Skrillex was mild in comparison. So, the costume design stuff, and the hair, and all of that, that was really a collaboration. I was like, ‘He has to be human, we have to relate to him on some level. He can’t be a total alien.’”
Come to Daddy follows Wood’s character in the film, Norval, as he visits his father (Stephen McHattie) for the first time since the latter abandoned him and his mother decades previously. As you can see in the clip below, the look Wood ended up going with is far more extreme than the Skrillex inspiration he was given.
The film released to theaters earlier this year.
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Elijah Wants You To Come To Daddy
While one could easily confuse ‘Come to Daddy’ with the name of an adult film, it is actually a new horror comedy starring Elijah Wood (‘Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency’,’The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring’). The movie premiered last month at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival and the U.S. distribution rights were just picked up by Saban Films. The distributor was planning a theatrical release and shared the deal at the Cannes Film Festival with XYZ Films representing international sales of the feature.
Wood plays a man named Norval, who is in his thirties. When he gets a surprise invitation from his estranged father, he “travels to a remote Oregon cabin to reconnect with” him. Also starring in the feature are Stephen McHattie (‘Pontypool’) and Martin Donovan (‘Weeds’).
‘Come to Daddy’ is the directorial debut by producer Ant Timpson who crafted the film around a script that Toby Harvard penned around Timpson’s initial pitch. On the production end of things, Mette-Marie Kongsved and Laura Tunstall are tackling it for Nowhere with Daniel Bekerman of Toronto’s Scythia Films, “Katie Holly of Dublin’s Blinder Films, Emma Slade for New Zealand-based Firefly Films and Harvard.”
No full trailer or release date has been announced yet.