Even in a genre like horror with many subcategories and aesthetics,
franchise fatigue is real. Here’s why the future of scary films is low-budget.

Larry Fessenden’s Blackout may make its 2023 debut, ushering in a new Monsterverse with a good old-fashioned werewolf flick. Even the most hotly anticipated franchise installment, Evil Dead Rise, is a continuation of what was once a low-budget cult favorite series. As fans look to these low-budget darlings for trend forecasting, they can expect to see more films falling into two camps: pure, old-fashioned fun with fewer metaphors than in recent films and chaotic, eerie, primal and atmospheric horror. And in another decade, perhaps the big box office release will follow suit.

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please enjoy a re-posting of “Scrooge”
as told with unwieldy hand puppets 
traditionally presented at the annual GEP debauch
here recorded remotely for absent friends during lockdown in 2020.

TBT: 2006, Fessenden, Ron Perlman, Connie Britton and Kevin Corrigan
spread holiday cheer after shooting THE LAST WINTER together in Iceland.

Happy Holidays from Glass Eye Pix!

Binge-view all 24 films from the 2008 and 2018 film fests,
featuring seasonal shorts by a wide array of Glass Eye Pals like
Jim Mickle, Ti West, Beck Underwood, Sarah Driver, Fessenden,
Mickey Keating, Voltaire, Joe Maggio, JT Petty, James McKenney,
Graham Reznick, Glenn McQuaid, Brahm Revel, Jenn Wexler, 
The Unwanted Houseguest, Chris Skotchdopole, authors, animators, artists and more!

Mark Pellington, (THE MOTHMAN PROPHESIES)
who was tapped to direct Fessenden and Guillermo del Toro’s script
of THE ORPHANAGE remake,
spent COVID remaking a movie of his own!

In 1997, Mark Pellington made his feature directorial debut with “Going All the Way,” based on Dan Wakefield’s novel of the same name. Telling the story of two Korean War veterans returning to their hometown of Indianapolis in the 1950s, the film featured an impressive cast of then-unknowns — Ben Affleck, Jeremy Davies, Rachel Weisz, Rose McGowan, and Nick Offerman among them. The film screened at Sundance, got solid reviews and a distribution deal… and then disappeared for 25 years. Pellington, while proud of the film, never felt like he quite captured what he had loved about Wakefield’s book, and the various edits the movie went through — from a three-hour-plus rough cut to the 112-minute Sundance version to the 97-minute movie that was ultimately released in theaters — left him feeling like he had taken the guts out of the story…

read the full article at indiewire

Why RJ From Ti West’s X Looks So Familiar

Fans of “X” surely noted that most of Owen Campbell’s co-stars in the film — including Martin Henderson, Mia Goth, and Jenna Ortega — are hardly strangers to the horror genre realm. “X” is not Campbell’s first gig in the horror game either. In fact, Campbell featured in a few of the better genre offerings of the past decade long before Ti West booked him as his film’s ill-fated cameraman. One of those films is Larry Fessenden’s horribly overlooked Frankenstein fable “Depraved.” And yet another was 2017’s marvelous coming-of-age creeper “Super Dark Times.”

Read full article HERE and by all means check out Super Dark Times, a true indie gem!

Unmentioned in the article, Campbell’s Glass Eye Pix turns in Jack Fessenden’s Riding Shotgun, Joe Maggio’s Bitter Feast, and the Tales From Beyond The Pale episodes The Hole Digger,  Ram King, Like Father Like Son, not to mention the seasonal puppet show, Scrooge.

Check out young Owen with his brother Tobias in the TALES Radio Diary

1) UNTIL DAWN: There are plenty more things that make Until Dawn the best horror game from Supermassive games, but the one that stands out in the light is its emotional value. When Until Dawn was released in the year 2015, it changed the way gamers looked at the studios. Despite the existence of previous decision-changing horror games, Until Dawn altered the perception of the genre to an extent.

If The Quarry was targeted at the modern generation Until Dawn was a complete homage to the 80’s and 90’s Cabin in the Woods (Not to be confused with the movie of the same name), horror slasher genre. Not only did it manage to create a cinematic experience, the addition of stars like Rami Malek, Hayden Panettiere, Meaghan Martin, Brett Dalton, Jordan Fisher, Nichole Bloom, and Peter Stormare made it impossible to forget.

See full list HERE