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Glass Eye Pix Press Releases

2008

Dec 25: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Glass Eye Pix.

Thanks to QuietEarth.com for naming I SELL THE DEAD ONE OF THEIR FAVORITE FILMS OF 2008!

and ShockTillYouDrop's Jeff Allard for naming THE LAST WINTER ONE OF THE BEST OF 2008(!)

and everyone else for placing WENDY AND LUCY ON THEIR TOP 10 LIST!

Dec 25 - Beck Underwood's Creepy Christmas Film Festival concludes.
Be sure to visit and see any of the shorts you missed! Or watch them all over again!

Dec 21: WENDY AND LUCY continues to appear on "Top 10 Films of the YEAR" lists.
Today in the New York Times A.O. Scott and Manohla Dargis both site Kelly Reichardt's film.

DEC 20: Beck Underwood's Creepy Christmas film Phantom Limbs now featured at Salon.com

Dec 17: CREEPY CHRISTMAS around the web...

December 14: The American Film Institute selects
WENDY AND LUCY
as one of the AFI AWARDS 10 outstanding movies of 2008!

“Wendy and Lucy” is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). It has some swearing, a little drug use and a brief implication of violence, but no nudity, sex or murder. The rating seems to reflect, above all, an impulse to protect children from learning that people are lonely and that life can be hard. from the NEW YORK TIMES

December 8: SANTA CLAWS Fessenden's Creepy Christmas offering now on-line left, on the set with henchman Brent Kunkle

December 4: Anne D. Bernstein covers the Creepy Christmas Film Festival on her Frederator Studios Blog

30 NOVEMBER Social Realist: Kelly Reichardt and WENDY AND LUCY in the New York Times Magazine

28 November: Posts on the CREEPY CHRISTMAS FILM FESTIVAL as we count down to DECEMBER 1st!

dread central | twitchfilm | today.com | freddyinspace | imbd

27 November: an appreciation of the Glass Eye Pix family at zombiedom

The news is out! Glass Eye Pix and Beck Underwood present the Creepy Christmas Film Festival.

Glass Eye Pix & Beck Underwood are chilled to no end  
to invite you on a moving & unforgettable holiday journey.  
 
 A horrifyingly talented group of artists were invited to create short films
inspired by images found through the squeaky doors & cracked windows
 of the 2008 Creepy Christmas Advent calendar.
 
 A new short will be shown each day, beginning Dec. 1st – 25th at:
 www.creepychristmas.net

 
 FILMMAKERS

Dec. 1 – David Goldin  Dec. 2 – Glenn McQuaid  Dec. 3 – Sara Driver  Dec. 4 – Heather Sinclair  Dec. 5 – JT Petty  Dec. 6 – Michael Vincent  Dec. 7 – Devin Febbroriello  Dec. 8 – Larry Fessenden  Dec. 9 – Beck Underwood  Dec. 10 – Isabel Samaras, Marcos & Nico Sorensen  Dec. 11 – Brandon Taylor & Eric Branco  Dec. 12 – Merrill Rauch, Gareth, Maud & Sam Brown  Dec. 13 – Brahm Revel

Dec. 14 – Jim Mickle  Dec. 15 – Annie Nocenti  Dec. 16 – Graham Reznick  Dec. 17 – Peter Sis  Dec. 18 – Voltaire  Dec. 19 – David Leslie – part I  Dec. 20 – Oliver Noble & Sam Falconi  Dec. 21 – David Leslie – part II  Dec. 22 – Janet Kusmierski & Greg Singer  Dec. 23 – James Felix McKenney  Dec. 24 – Mary Harron, John C., Ruby & Ella Walsh  Dec. 25 – Ti West

 

11/21: Fessenden on Rue Morgue Radio part 2 of his interview

17 Nov: Critic and Long-time supporter John Anderson puts HABIT on the short list
of notable vampire films in Newsday's story on "Twilight".

THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE ANEMIC The vampire has been the type O-positive of movie characters - useful, but far from rare. The result have been, supernaturally enough, a mixed bag of the undead, some biting, some toothless. NOSFERATU (1922) - The landmark bloodsucking thriller, and still profoundly creepy, this was an unlicensed version of the Bram Stoker novel "Dracula" directed by the great German neo-expressionist F.W. Murnau, later played by John Malkovich in E. Elias Merhige's great "Shadow of a Vampire," in which Willem Dafoe played actor Max Shreck - the name of Murnau's star (and, much later, the name of Christopher Walken's villain in " Batman Returns"). The interconnections get as complicated as a cardiovascular system. DRACULA (1931) - The screen adaptation of the stage version that made Bela Lugosi famous (partly because women would faint during performances). A movie that retains much of its Gothic unease, not because of Lugosi's performance (which has long since passed into caricature), but because of the unearthly atmosphere created by notorious director Tod Browning ("Freaks"). DRACULA (1958) - Christopher Lee as the count, in a film that led to seven sequels and its own genre of vampire thrillers. LOVE AT FIRST BITE (1979) with George Hamilton and DRACULA: DEAD AND LOVING IT (1995) with Leslie Nielsen - comedies representing the reductio ad absurdum of the genre. HABIT (1997) - A New York-centric ghoul movie, one of several that found in the vampire tradition a modern metaphor (for sex, AIDS and the contemporary condition). Director Larry Fessenden plays an East Village denizen who picks up a girl, only to find out he's bitten off more than he can chew. Or something. LET THE RIGHT ONE IN (2008) - The most recent entry, but a great one: 12-year-old Oskar is a bullied loner, who finds friendship in Eli, a girl with an insatiable appetite for human blood. Currently on screen and one of the year's best.

11/14: Fessenden on Rue Morgue Radio part 1 of his interview

Angus Scrimm on Rue Morgue Radio part 2 of his interview

Kelly Reichardt's WENDY AND LUCY A Film Science / Glass Eye Pix production Opens in select theaters December 10 trailer now on-line • poster now on-line

THE LAST WINTER comicbook reviewed at Cosmic Comics "Revel does a great job of using each color to the max. Revel also did a great job with his panel work. Each page is jammed with panels which almost gives a feeling of claustrophobia, which is amazing considering the story takes places in snow field. Even more impressive, with all those panels Revel still managed to tell a clear and coherent visual story. Many artists just lump panel after panel, which makes pages exhausting. Revel made each page layout unique which made for a great read." available at Amazon.com Speaking of The Last Winter and Amazon, check out how partisan the costomer reviews of this film are. How did the survival of the planet become a PARTISAN ISSUE? Doesn't bode well for the future, my friends. Are Human Beings Hard-Wired to Ignore the Threat of Catastrophic Climate Change?

"There's not a single wrong note in 'Liberty Kid,' ...
Tender, wise and deceptively low-key... Quietly accumulates emotional power...
Not until the graceful, perfectly judged conclusion do we realize how much we care."
— NEW YORK TIMES

Tuesday, 11 November — Veteran's Day Ilya Chaiken's LIBERTY KID coming to DVD on Kino International Chock full of special features: • Commentary by the director and actors Al Thompson and Kareem Saviñon • Behind the Scenes Featurette • Deleted Scenes • Photo Gallery • Back from Iraq: Conversations with the Iraq War Veterans • presented in 5.1 Stereo Surround

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October 31
Glenn McQuaid's I SELL THE DEAD wins!!
Best Independent Feature Film
at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival

Interview with Angus Scrimm now on-line at Rue Morgue Radio.
And Mike Felsher and Feedback declare their necromantic love for I SELL THE DEAD at the tail end of the broadcast.

Alternative Horror Movies Consumer Guide
Tired of the same old horror recommendations?
Here is our idiosyncratic guide to some lesser-known Halloween shiver-flicks ...
Wendigo and Habit sited!

Oct 30: New reviews for I SELL THE DEAD!

"8.5 OUT OF 10 !!
"The real treat in the film is the incredible on-screen compatibility between Monaghan and Fessenden.
I haven't seen this much gelling of comedic prowess and camaraderie since the original dynamic duo.
...there is much to love about I Sell The Dead.
A great script, great acting, great set design and fantastic makeup make this a must see film."
—shocktilyoudrop.com

"3.5 OUT OF 4 !!
"If you pine for that delectable golden era of melodramatic, ghoulish, bodice-ripping big-screen terror,
and wonder what it would be like if you crossed that unique Hammer aesthetic
with the supernatural splatter-toon outrageousness of THE EVIL DEAD,
then Sir/Madame, look no further. I SELL THE DEAD is the fright flick for you."
—Fangoria.com

Oct 29 Dreaming Alone: The Larry Fessenden Interview

2nd in the comicbook series by Brahm Revel

26 october: Festival Reviews for I SELL THE DEAD:

"9 of 10 stars —High-caliber!"
Quiet Earth

"strong performances, good storytelling and solid production design.
I Sell The Dead felt like an elongated Tales From The Crypt episode ... filled with all sorts of colourful characters.
... amusing and charming"
TheHorrorSection

"Where the real goods happen is when Monaghan and Fessenden are on screen together.
... comparable with great duos like Abbott and Costello whose comedy monster films are the stuff of legend.
gives hope for the future of McQuaid ... I would gladly see what else he has coming up. "
TwitchFilm

Merriment at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival, featuring Angus Scrimm's notorious eyewear.
Hanging out with Andrew Van Den Houten, the folks of Rue Morgue Magazine (more photos here), Glenn and Angus, Brenda Cooney and festival head Adam Lopez,
Fessenden and Rodriguez Guidino and the sold-out crowd attending I SELL THE DEAD... Angus with fans.

SOLD OUT!!

Oct 24: World Premiere of I SELL THE DEAD at the Bloor Cinema, Toronto, Canada

Tonight! October 23, 8:30PM!! Graham Reznick's I CAN SEE YOU at the Buried Alive Horror Film Festival in Atlanta, GA.

Oct 22: Glass Eye Pix arrives in Canada for the Toronto After Dark Film Festival
World Premier screening of Glenn McQuaid's I SELL THE DEAD

Oct 21: Glass Eye Pix pal Greg Lamberson, a novelist (Johnny Gruesome) and filmmaker (Slime City) has released CHEAP SCARES Low Budget Horror Filmmakers Share Their Secrets on the McFarland label. CHEAP SCARES is comprised of extensive interviews with Fessenden, B. Bookwalter, Roy Frumkes, Scooter McRae, Brett Piper and others. A handsome book with a lot of stills. Check it out!

19 October Many have made fun of my obsession with the wendigo, but few know that not only have I made 3 movies (Wendigo, The Last Winter and Skin and Bones) and a comicbook about the wendigo, but also have a treatment for a cartoon series! This site, bluecorncomics, caught on just today! Check out our cartoon teasers here and here. Rock on, Wendy! —LF

Oct 19: Nice blog entry on The Last Winter: "To commemorate Halloween ’08, here’s a baker’s dozen of the most effective horror titles in recent years, one a day, till we get to October 31. #1: THE LAST WINTER. "Fessenden’s achievement in The Last Winter still remains cinema’s most effective environmental creepfest of recent memory"

October 10: I SELL THE DEAD at Sitges 2008!!

Fessenden and McQuaid in front of the lobby logo | The midnight crowd | The team: Peter Phok, Glenn McQuaid, Fessenden and Brent Kunkle.

OCTOBER 2:

FESTIVAL AVALANCHE!

Glass Eye Pix & Friends at the Woodstock Film Festival!

Michael Vincent's experimental short DREAM GIRL opens for
HAPPY BIRTHDAY HARRIS MALDEN:
October 3, 9:45PM at the Upstate Films I Cinema
October 4, 10:00PM at the Woodstock Town Hall

The Epic Shorts program features JT Petty's horror short BLOOD RED EARTH:
October 4, 11:00AM at the Upstate Films I Cinema
October 5, 3:30PM at the Woodstock Community Center

Kelly Reichardt's latest feature WENDY AND LUCY now playing:
October 4, 7:00PM at the Tinker Street Cinema
October 5, 7:30PM at the Upstate Films I Cinema

Graham Reznick's I CAN SEE YOU opens at the Atlanta Horror Film Fest!

I CAN SEE YOU
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
(with MALDITO BASTARDO!)
The Five Spot
1123 Euclid Ave NE
Atlanta, GA 30307

James Felix McKenney's AUTOMATONS wins Best Feature!

AUTOMATONS wins the Godzilla Award for Best Feature at the
SUBURBIA! NoBudgetFilmFestival in Rome!

THE JURY: "Odd, different , rather unique, “Automatons” confirms
that there is still the possibility to produce a film in total freedom."

Rochon, Fessenden, McKenney, Timpone

Sept 27 - Loose Lips Department: During 3 gruelling hours as a guest on Fangoria Radio,
Fessenden reveals some upcoming plans to crack-journalist Tony Timpone. Now the word is out.

Glass Eye Pix to team with MULBERRY STREET writer/director Jim Mickle and writer/star Nick Damaci
on a new project entitled STAKE LAND. Details to follow.

FANGO: Fessenden teams with MULBERRY STREET gang.

DREAD CENTRAL: Mulberry Street Duo Reteams With Glass Eye for Stake Land

QUIET EARTH: Mulberry Street boys doing STAKE LAND with Larry Fessenden

Sept 27 - Will Patton, Kelly Reichardt head to the red carpet where they're joined by Michelle Williams and Larry Fessenden
at the New York Film Festival screening of Reichardt's WENDY AND LUCY, produced by Glass Eye Pix and Fiim Science, distributed by Oscilloscope Pictures.

Sept 26: Fessenden and James Felix McKenney (AUTOMATONS, SATAN HATES YOU, HYPOTHERMIA) to hang out at Fangoria Radio 10PM-1AM TONIGHT! with our hosts Debbie Rochon, Dee Snider and Tony Timpone!

The dude over at Blackest Eyes says I'm batshit crazy. Kinda got to me. He might be right. —LF

Glass Eye Pix is pleased to announce I SELL THE DEAD Will have its North American Premiere at The Toronto After Dark Film Festival Closing night Gala! October 24 One show only! Special Guests to be announced! View the trailer here

I SELL THE DEAD a film by Glenn McQuaid | Scareflix #6 | A Glass Eye Pix production

September 22 — FANGORIA has the exclusive: New I Sell the Dead trailer here!

Dread Central and Shocktillyoudrop and Quiet Earth and ArrowintheHead pick up the story...

I SELL THE DEAD to have a sneak preview at SITGES International Film Festival of Catalunya October 10 and 11

Fessenden and Dominic Monaghan in Glenn McQuaid's film

September 16: The Word is out!

Glass Eye Pix teams up with Dark Sky Films
to produce a whole new batch of horrors!

Read all about it at Dread Central, Bloody-Disgusting,
Shock 'Till You Drop, Fangoria and Arrow in the Head!

Tuesday September 9: I SELL THE DEAD mix wraps

back: producers Peter Phok, Fessenden, writer-director Glenn McQuaid, sound designer Graham Reznixk,
front: mixer Tom Efinger, composer Jeff Grace, dialogue editor Dave Ellinwood

September 7:
Glass Eye Pix co-production WENDY AND LUCY in the Toronto Film Festival
and the Sunday New York Times: For Michelle Williams, It's All Personal

September 1: random recent Fessenden sightings on the internet:

Larry Fessenden - American Auteur

Cinema Purgatorio

Scifitalk: FEAR ITSELF directors talk

THE LAST WINTER reviewed on That will teach them to be bad

August 22: Wizard talks to Brahm Revel about GUERILLAS, his comic book miniseries from Image Comics!

Don't forget -- the first issue hits stands this Wednesday, August 27!

MUST READ!! August 21: Larry Fessenden and the Spirits of the Lonely Places

 

AUGUST 15 Our pal Angus Scrimm in Fango, talking about the August 26 release of Phantasm IV: Oblivion and about Satan Hates You and I Sell the Dead.

August 14: Comic Book Resources has the scoop on Brahm Revel's latest masterpiece: GUERILLAS! Read it here! Get the first issue of this mini series from Image Comics on August 27!

August 6:
"Nobody's ever accused me of living in the real world."
An interview with James Felix McKenney by Greg Lamberson at Fear Zone.

August 6: Just uncovered: In a recent interview, Tony Timpone, editor of FANGORIA MAGAZINE,
sights a slew of Glass Eye Pix productions as the best of the genre. We love ya too Tony!
Read the whole interview at the Colonel's Crypt which recently profiled Fessenden and SATAN HATES YOU as well.

August 3: imdb highlights "Skin and Bones"

AUGUST 1: "the scariest and creepiest episode of FEAR ITSELF of the season."
reactions to last night's broadcast of SKIN AND BONES

Fessenden's Episode of NBC'S FEAR ITSELF airs Thursday 31 July at 10PM

Making his Bones: Fangoria reports on SKIN AND BONES

Fear Itself director Larry Fessenden talks horror, and 'Skin and Bones' on monstersandcritics

SKIN and Bones reviewed by Greg Lamberson in FEAR ZONE

'WENDIGO' WINGMAN LARRY FESSENDEN TALKS 'THE LAST WINTER' in FEARNET.COM

Tuesday 29 July: Glass Eye Pix celebrates the World Premiere of Mike "Dragon" Vincent's experimental short DREAMGIRL at The Pioneer Theater.

THE LAST WINTER back on the Big Screen at filmmaker Michael Moore's 4th annual Festival in Traverse City, Michigan.

Wednesday, July 30th 9:00pm at Milliken Auditorium
Thursday, July 31st 3:00pm at Lars Hockstad Auditorium

Top DVD rentals-sales listing, July 25
#7 THE LAST WINTER

Appreciation for the special features included on the DVD release of THE LAST WINTER: IFmagazine There is one special feature on the DVD but oh is it a doozy. It is a two-hour long documentary on the making of the film from pillar to post. From the location scouts, to the pre-production shooting and organization, to the production, to the post production, to why things had to get cut out, to an interview with the co-writer and director Larry Fessenden in which he describes not wanting to go mainstream and attending his biggest film festival ever in the Toronto Film Festival, making movies with messages and making a horror movie not in typical Hollywood fashion. This is a simply awesome documentary as we get all aspects of making the film and what it takes to actually put something like this together. Some of the most interesting portions have to do with working in Iceland, having boats as trailers, filming in the middle of a snow plain, building an actual set in the middle of a frozen wasteland and more. Worth checking it out regardless of whether you enjoy the movie or not. thedeadbolt The DVD for The Last Winter is remarkable in its special features, especially considering the limited release of the film. I love that a festival hit like this one and a film that, to be fair, had a lot more ardent fans than myself who will be seeking it out on DVD, got such a great home treatment. The "Making-of" documentary about the film is longer than the flick itself and covers every aspect of production from inception through post-production and to a festival interview with Fessenden from last summer. The documentary is overwhelming in its detail, but if you need more, you'll find it in a commentary by Fessenden. In the end, The Last Winter is an original horror movie that swings for the fences. It may eventually go foul, but you have to admire the attempt. digitallyobsessed Extras Review: The extras include an audio commentary by co-writer/director Larry Fessenden. He talks in great detail about his film, becoming very candid when discussing the tough story choices he was faced with before even going behind the camera. The only other extra is Making The Last Winter, a massive, two-hour documentary chronicling the making of the movie, from development to post-production. This piece is both informative and a breeze to sit through, despite the long running time. Extras Grade: B+ vueweekly IFC’s disc features a very worthwhile audio commentary from Fessenden, who’s informative, articulate and even quite funny in a rather dry sort of way. Of the film’s use of archival footage of oil drilling he explains, “It was very important to me to show oil drilling in a movie about oil drilling with no oil drilling.” It’s fun to hear him talk about his excitement over the benefits of working with a larger budget—the many helicopter shots, the dolly set-ups just for little stuff, the birds from Harry Potter, “the real stars of the movie,” Fessenden confesses—as well as with very good actors, and with Iceland, where he actually shot most of The Last Winter. (And it’s funnier still to learn that the groans of desire we hear from LeGros during his off-screen humpy-pumpy were actually taken from a scene in which he’s helping Perlman escape from drowning.) All in all, one can’t help but appreciate what Fessenden is trying to make: a thoughtful, medium-budget movie with indie credibility in a genre overrun with crappy excess. The Last Winter isn’t entirely a triumph in this regard, but it’s close enough to light the hope that Fessenden can keep going in this racket.

July 22 - Kelly Reichardt's film WENDY AND LUCY, produced by Glass Eye Pix and Film Science, will be picked up for distribution by Beastie Boy Adam Yauch's new film company Oscilloscope and will be released theatrically in December of this year. Wendy and Lucy has recieved warm response from reviewers since it's screening at the Cannes film Festival, where the film recieved the highest honor for its canine star Lucy, the Palm Dog. Read the Press Release. Recent festival reviews: " classically simple, deeply engaging storytelling" - CINEMATICAL "a moving cry of despair for its alienated lead character" - SCREEN DAILY "superb central performance of Michelle Williams" - VARIETY "one of my favorites in the festival." - IFC

Glass Eye Pix exclusive: Ron Perlman talks about becoming an actor

 FEAR ITSELF UPDATE
"Skin and Bones" to air Thursday 31 July at 10 PM

Doug Jones, John Pyper-Ferguson

July 18: 2 new interviews with Fessenden: FEAR ZONE: talking about doing FEAR ITSELF and releasing THE LAST WINTER DVD. ICONS OF FRIGHT: an exhaustively illustrated, phrase for phrase transcription of a booze-soaked interview with the lads at Icons. Damn, they put together a pretty looking page with lots of movie stills, cool reference photos like this Werewolf By Night cover, and screen grabs like this one from the "making of THE LAST WINTER."

17 July - Our old pal Ron Perlman--
He's Number 1!

July 15 - Moriarty Offers His Thoughts And A Sneak Peek For The July 24th Episode Of FEAR ITSELF!
on AINT IT COOL NEWS July 14 - Glass Eye Pix comrade Douglas Buck (SISTERS, FAMILY PORTRAITS) resurfaces
with news of his next project THE BROKEN IMAGO: Dread Central has the interview.

July 13 - I CAN SEE YOU reviewed at DreadCentral.com "3 knives of 5: one of the most indefinable films I think I've ever seen" —--Johnny Butane

JULY 11: A big Glass Eye Pix toast to Ron Perlman, Doug Jones and Guillermo Del Toro for their new movie HELLBOY II, opening today to warm reviews. Doug Jones speaks to the press about his career and the FEAR ITSELF episode directed by Fessenden in which he stars. Out of the Mouth of Abe: Hellboy II's Doug Jones Finally Gets To Speak

 

July 4: Rave reviews from SHOCK CINEMA!!! for THE LAST WINTER... "Delivering an icy blast of cerebral eco-horror, it's packed with heavy ideas, spectacular cinematography and a mounting sense of dread." ...and TRIGGER MAN! "Skillfully executed, with naturalistic performances and characters that challenge viewer expectations, this type of smart, economic filmmaking effectively hauls the no-frills, low budget, B-movie aesthetic into the 21st century."

Monique Dupree, Larry Fessenden and AJ Khan in SATAN HATES YOU

For Immediate release: BROOKLYN, NY, July 3, 2008 Glass Eye Pix and MonsterPants Movies are proud to announce that principal photography was completed in New York City on Tuesday for SATAN HATES YOU, written and directed by James Felix McKenney.

July 2 - Fessenden interview with Colonel Crypt keeper Scott Perry

Fessenden FEAR ITSELF episode officially scheduled for Thursday, July 24 at 10PM.
announced at dreadcentral and shocktillyoudrop

Glass Eye Pix at the Fango Convention, Saturday 21 June: producer Peter Phok, director Glenn McQuaid, frequent collaborator the great Angus Scrimm, Fessenden and James McKenney gather for the festivities. On stage, Fessenden grills Graham Reznick and McQuaid, and McKenney describes his latest project SATAN HATES YOU.

Our freinds at Fango are hosting a little weekend get-together in New Jersey this Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Please join Fessenden who will be promoting NBC's FEAR ITSELF as well as the DVD release of THE LAST WINTER.

Fessenden will be joined by a stable of Scareflix filmmakers from Glass Eye Pix:

James Felix McKenney will be showing clips from SATAN HATES YOU, now shooting;

Graham Reznick will show a trailer from I CAN SEE YOU, now in festivals;

and Glenn McQuaid will show a teaser for the much anticipated I SELL THE DEAD.

Hope to see you there at 2:45 Saturday 21 June!!

Other luminaries from recent Glass Eye projects are also attending the festivities: Look for

Tom Noonan (HOUSE OF THE DEVIL, Angus Scrimm (SATAN HATES YOU, I SELL THE DEAD),
J.T. Petty (BLOOD RED EARTH) Doug Buck, Greg Lamberson etc etc. check the schedule!

JUNE 16
FINAL PHASE OF PRINCIPAL PHOTOGRAPHY COMMENCES ON
James Felix McKenny's SATAN HATES YOU
a glass eye pix / monsterpants movie

June 14: Fango announces Fessenden and Scareflix directors to attend Fangoria Convention on Saturday 21 June

JUNE 14: 'Eco-Horror': Green Panic on the Silver Screen? Fessenden Featured on NPR's All things Considered: WAMU 88.5 FM out of the Nation's Capitol at 5PM EST. Excerpts of a conversation between Fessenden and Arts Reporter Neda Ulaby on horror movies with environmental themes.

Fessenden rides HELLBOY II release coattails: Fans and the press are buzzing about the July 11 release of Guillermo Del Toro's HELLBOY II. The Hellboy stars make mention of recent collaborations with Fessenden, also coming to light in July: Perlman stars in Fessenden's THE LAST WINTER (out on DVD July 22) and the extraordinary Doug Jones (HELLBOY's Abe Sapien, PAN'S LABYRINTH's Pan and Pale Man) stars with minimal makeup in Fessenden's episode of the NBC horror anthology FEAR ITSELF entitled SKIN AND BONES (currently scheduled to air July 24).

30 May: Chicago Tribune waxes poetic about House of the Devil

27 May 1:34 A.M. principal photography on Fessenden's
Fear Itself episode SKIN AND BONES wraps.

May 26: The final SATAN HATES YOU mini-shoot wraps in Brooklyn!

The final phase of production begins June 16th!

May 25: Press release announcing DVD street date for THE LAST WINTER

“9.5/10 stars: it's damned near a perfect film”
The Movies made me do it

And check out these alternate and foreign DVD box art designs
on the updated THE LAST WINTER graphix page!

Meanwhile, available now for rent, The Last Winter has a strong presence on the shelves of Blockbuster.

Fear in a Cold Climate: An Interview with Larry Fessenden

NEW YORK TIMES May 24 - Cannes Journal

Although she probably would have won audiences over anyway, the American director Kelly Reichardt (“Old Joy”) was more favorably placed on Thursday evening with “Wendy and Lucy,” which showed in the more hospitable context of Un Certain Regard, a category for younger filmmakers. In the space of a few years, Ms. Reichardt — who offered a few shy words of hello before the screening, flanked by a cluster of male colleagues and her lovely star, Michelle Williams — has become one of the most interesting young American filmmakers. Her latest follows Wendy (Ms. Williams), a girlish woman with watchful eyes and a hesitant smile, who, with her mutt, Lucy, is on her way to a new life in Alaska with too little money when she runs into trouble in Oregon. With uninflected realism, an attentive camera and no weeping strings, Ms. Reichardt makes palpably, tragically real what it means to be struggling at the very edge of the economic abyss. Like “Old Joy,” which tracks two friends on a short trip to the country, “Wendy and Lucy” is political to the bone but without any of the usual grandstanding. As of Thursday night’s screening, though distributors were circling the room, this pitch-perfect triumph had yet to attract an American buyer. It will. —MANOHLA DARGIS

May 20:

Blockbuster Exclusive now available for rent
with director's commentary and 5 minutes of extras.
Available to buy July 22 With director's commentary and 2 hours of extras!!

May 19: Angus Scrimm and Glass Eye in the City of Angels.
The Tall Man performs duties for I SELL THE DEAD
and SATAN HATES YOU in L.A. Satellite shoot.

13 MAY - As reported in FearZone, the trailer for NBC's new horror series FEAR ITSELF (featuring an Episode directed by Fessenden) is now on line here

May 11- Wendigo showing up in used bins and still earning blog-posts

May 6 - I CAN SEE YOU news on dreadcentral.com

 
May 5 - pre-production starts on
NBC's FEAR ITSELF episode 9 "SKIN & BONES"

May 4:

Screen Daily reports on Memento Films adding WENDY AND LUCY to its sales slate.
Read all about it!

Fessenden sited in treatise on what makes us scared:
Horror: The Cultural Significance of Fear

 

The Last Winter screens in Minneapolis, Minnesota SATURDAY APRIL 27 At the Bell Museum of Natural History "SEEING CLIMATE CHANGE" FILM FESTIVAL "The Last Winter," which will be shown on Saturday evening, is a film that Matteson feels will be most interesting for the student body. The film "captures the sense of eeriness surrounding our change in environment," says Matteson, "and the sense that something isn't right." She believes this fictional film embodies the tone that surrounds dialogue focused on climate change. article

APRIL 23 - GLASS EYE PIX AT THE CANNES FILM FESTIVAL Glass Eye Pix and Film Science co-production WENDY AND LUCY, a film by Kelly Reichardt starring Michelle Williams and Will Patton (and featuring an appearance by Fessenden) will have it's world premier at the Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section. The film is produced by Spirit award winning producer Neil Kopp, Anish Savjani and Fessenden.

April 22

2 AM, April 17: Ti West's HOUSE OF THE DEVIL wraps.

 It's three skulls for the SISTERS DVD!

Read the full review at Fangoria.com!

April 13 SATAN HATES YOU news
on cinema-suicide and Dread-central

April 11: The fine folks at TWITCH give a nice overview of FEAR ITSELF, and a rundown of the directors involved in the NBC series which premieres in May.

APRIL 10:

April 9 - Fango keeping up-tp-date with posting of THE LAST WINTER DVD cover art!
And Dread Central has some Fessenden news here and here.

APRIL 8 - The News is out
ShockTillYouDrop.com has been informed Carpenter will not direct Skin & Bones.
Instead, Larry Fessenden is stepping in to helm this episode of NBC's FEAR ITSELF

APRIL 4: Fangoria reports on a few more folks that Satan hates!

Michael Berryman, Debbie Rochon and Max Brooks join the cast of SATAN HATES YOU!

MARCH 31: Ti West's 'House of the Devil' Gathers Inhabitants

 
Wednesday 26 March: Shoot Day 1
Ti West on set of HOTD

THE LAST WINTER: The Graphic Novel

In stores this Wednesday, March 26 from Image Comics!
Read all about it at Fangoria.com!

 
Team Glass Eye in undisclosed location during
last week's stealth visit to NYC by Our Man in Mexico.

March 22 - Fessenden earns a few new fans according to recent web posts: WENDIGO "Writer-director-editor Larry Fessenden really did a superb job here, and while this is the first film of his I've seen, I hope it won't be the last." Gorginfoogle's Movie Guide  THE LAST WINTER "an almost perfect horror film. I've only seen this film once but I have a strong feeling that after repeat viewings I think this may be in my top ten. " skfan, horror-movies.ca

••• Now Available •••

MovieScore Media presents
TRIGGER MAN -- Music Composed by JEFF GRACE

• Sound clips and more info available here.

• Limited CD edition (500 copies) distributed by
Screen Archives Entertainment available here.

• Download album in 320kbit mp3 format here.

• Download album on iTunes here.

DVD Releases for Tuesday, March 18th!

Ti West's ScareFlick TRIGGER MAN on DVD from Kino International	Jim Mickle's MULBERRY STREET from After Dark Films.

March 11: Douglas Buck's SISTERS arrives on DVD today! from Image Entertainment!

March 5 - House of the Devil production report at IndieWire!

    March 1: Satan Hates You posting at creature corner too!

Feb 29: Still more Glass Eye Pix news at Fangoria!
PHANTASM cast members Reggie Bannister & Angus Scrimm
reunite in James Felix McKenney's SATAN HATES YOU.
Read all about it!

Feb. 28: Fangoria reports on Gregory Lamberson's new work, including the book
CHEAP SCARES! HOW TO MAKE A LOW BUDGET HORROR FILM,
featuring Fessenden and several other low-budget auteurs.

Feb. 27: A.J. Bowen spills the beans to Fangoria about
his House of the Devil co-stars
Mary Woronov & Tom Noonan!

 LIBERTY KID on TV!

Premieres on HBO LATINO Thursday February 28
and on HBO FAMILY Monday, March 10!

 

DATE/TIME	CHANNEL
Thu 2/28 10:00 PM	HBO LATINO - EAST
Fri 2/29 01:00 AM	HBO LATINO - WEST
Fri 2/29 11:00 PM	HBO LATINO - EAST
Sat 3/1 02:00 AM	HBO LATINO - WEST
Sun 3/2 11:30 PM	HBO LATINO - EAST
Mon 3/3 02:30 AM	HBO LATINO - WEST
Mon 3/10 12:35 AM	HBO FAMILY - EAST
Mon 3/10 03:35 AM	HBO FAMILY - WEST
Wed 3/12 08:45 PM	HBO FAMILY - EAST
Wed 3/12 11:45 PM	HBO FAMILY - WEST
Thu 3/13 11:30 AM	HBO LATINO - EAST
Thu 3/13 02:30 PM	HBO LATINO - WEST
Mon 3/17 04:45 PM	HBO LATINO - EAST
Mon 3/17 07:45 PM	HBO LATINO - WEST
Tue 3/25 08:15 AM	HBO LATINO - EAST
Tue 3/25 11:15 AM	HBO LATINO - WEST
Sun 3/30 02:10 AM	HBO FAMILY - EAST
Sun 3/30 05:10 AM	HBO FAMILY - WEST
Mon 3/31 02:00 AM	HBO LATINO - EAST
Mon 3/31 05:00 AM	HBO LATINO - WEST

For more showtimes and updated schedule, visit HBO.com.

R.I.P.

FEb 22 Glass Eye Pix and friends highlighted in this month's Fangoria, now on newstands! Articles on forthcoming DVD releases: Doug Buck's SISTERS and Jim Mickle's MULBERRY STREET Review of James McKenny's AUTOMATONS mention of Ti West's TRIGGER MAN

House of the Devil cast continues to assemble: Ti West film will star Jocelin Donahue, AJ Bowen and Greta Gerwig . More to come...

February 14

Happy Valentine's Day from Glass Eye

Nice list of "alternative romantic" films includes HABIT

February 13:
AJ Bowen joins the cast of THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL. Read all about it at ICONS OF FRIGHT!

 

02/07/08 PRESS RELEASE: DARK SKY FILMS announces THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL from writer/director TI WEST Story picked up by Fango's Mike Gingold, who ads useful embellishments...

Also in today's news: Monaghan in 'Pet' project Dominic Monaghan has landed the lead role in Edna McCallion's psychological thriller "Pet" for MGM.

Feb 6 - news flash from South of the Border:
THE ROOST still on the New Releases shelf
at a Blockbuster in Southern Mexico!

Tuesday 2/5/08 THE BRAVE ONE out on DVD featuring Fessenden as Sandy Colmes, first blood VOTE TODAY in the USA!

Feb 3 - our man in Mexico discovers The Last Winter
bootleg at the Tuesday Market in San Miguel

LIBERTY KID HITS LOS ANGELES!!! Opens February 1st AT THE LAEMMLE GRAND,downtown LIBERTY KID will also be featured on L.A.'s 89.3 FM KPCC's Film Week with host Larry Mantle on Friday February 1 at 11:30am

Tuesday 29 January: AUTOMATONS out on DVD!! buy or rent it TODAY!

Reviews for the AUTOMATONS DVD:

"Automatons is a winning science-fiction prize with so many facets worthy of praise...
Arguably his most important film to date, Automatons is a tour de force for director James Felix McKenney."
-- Dustin McNeill, DVDACTIVE

"One of the most impressive independent projects I've seen in a long time...
One of the most skilled and ambitious shoestring budget movies I've seen to date."
-- Ed Demko, BLOODTYPE ONLINE

"Far more original than such hints of homage suggest.
The “This is How Humanity Dies” tagline should be rephrased to state “This is how true speculative storylines are handled”.
That’s this small film’s greatest achievement."
-- Bill Gibron, POPMATTERS

 
Jan 26, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico:
Glass Eye Pix well represented in local video store horror shelves:
CABIN FEVER (sequelized by Gepix's Ti West)
MIMIC 3 by RED EARTH director JT Petty,
and Fessenden's own WENDIGO (ESCALOFRIO)

JAN 17 News from Douglas Buck on the Japanese theatrical release of SISTERS, his remake of the Brian DePalma film. Mark your calendars: Douglas Buck's SISTERS out on DVD in the U.S. March 11! The film stars Cloe Sevigny, Stephen Rea and introducing Lou Doillon as Angelique. SISTERS was produced by Ed Pressman and executive produced by Fessenden.

LIBERTY KID EXTENDED AT THE PIONEER, NYC Wed. 1/16 @ 9pm Thurs. 1/17 @ 9pm Fri. 1/18 @ 7pm Sat. 1/19 @ 5pm Sun. 1/20 @ 5pm Mon. 1/21 @ 7pm Tues. 1/22 @ 9pm Wed. 1/23 @ 7pm Thurs. 1/24 @ 9pm

New York Nights at the Pioneer. JAN 6: I CAN SEE YOU sneak preview screening with producer Peter Phok and director Graham Reznick
JAN 9: opening night of LIBERTY KID with director Ilya Chaiken and actor Al Thompson.

LIBERTY KID opens Wednesday January 9, at The Pioneer! ONE WEEK ONLY!

CRITIC'S PICK: "There's not a single wrong note in 'Liberty Kid,' ... Tender, wise and deceptively low-key... Quietly accumulates emotional power... Not until the graceful, perfectly judged conclusion do we realize how much we care." -- NEW YORK TIMES CRITIC'S PICK: "Chaiken's subtle narrative touch, along with the exceptionally strong performances of leads Al Thompson and Kareem Savinon, gives this one a rare emotional pull." -- NEW YORK MAGAZINE "the least explicit yet most affecting film yet to depict New York in the weeks and months after the towers fell." -- NEW YORK SUN “Poigniant. There is no shortage of films abo ut the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, but there is a lack of good ones. The low-budget indie "Liberty Kid," is one of those that succeeds.” NEW YORK POST "Epic and resonant… to her eternal credit, Chaiken keeps her movie grounded in her characters, allowing Thompson and Savinon's true-to-life performances to carry us through…" -- Bilge Ebiri, NERVE "an uncommonly acute, deftly played drama of the New York working class" -- Nathan Lee, VILLAGE VOICE "Packs a visceral punch" -- Maitland McDonagh, TV GUIDE "There may have been two or three dozen American films that struggled to make sense of 9/11 and its aftermath, but none of them have done more with less than 'Liberty Kid'.. engagingly told, wonderfully acted and shot with an eye for the beauty of the Big Apple's unglamorous outer-borough neighborhoods." -- Andrew O’Hehir, SALON.COM

Graham Reznick's I CAN SEE YOU, scareflix #5,
will have a public sneak preview at the Pioneer Theater in NYC
6 January 2008 at 4:45 PM | 3rd street at Avenue A

THE LAST WINTER appears on a few more Best of the Year lists: Dread Central & The Seventh Art blog & Film Freak Central.net. Also gets hammered for being left wing crapola here.

Jan 5 - Dom talks about chameleons and cockroaches instead of Willie and Arthur. Thanks for keeping it real DM!

Jan 4 - Oops, Dom shifted to Friday... hmmmmm.

Jan 3 - If you still needed an excuse to support the WGA friendly shows of Letterman and Ferguson,
be sure to tune in to the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson TONIGHT on CBS at 12:35AM
whose guest will be I SELL THE DEAD's very own Dominic Monaghan. (will Dom mention ISTD...? Inquiring minds want to know...)

Jan 2 - THE LAST WINTER called year's best in 2007 roundup on FEARZONE.COM and HORRORREVIEWS.COM

THE LAST WINTER screens Friday and Saturday 4 & 5 January Real Art Ways | 56 Arbor St. in Hartford CT. Showtime each day is at 9:30 p.m.

Sneak peek January 6 In Festivals this Spring	In Theaters January 9 On HBO starting in February	DVD In stores January 29	DVD In stores March 18	Blockbuster exclusive May 20 Available everywhere July 29