Guillermo del Toro has sagely said “the natural state of a movie is not getting made.” Glass Eye Pix has a litany of movies we worked on that never made it to production (like Fessenden’s THE ORPHANAGE). Then there are the projects we started that did go on to get made by other entities (like Jeremy Gardner’s AFTER MIDNIGHT, formerly SOMETHING ELSE). One happy story comes back to life in this archived account of GEP’s involvement in the making of Ryan Spindell’s THE MORTUARY COLLECTION, which went on to become a popular success with a different production team.
Here is a blast from the past circa 2013:
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Fantasia ’13 Exclusive: Director Ryan Spindell Talks Glass Eye Pix Anthology THE MORTUARY COLLECTION
An archive interview from The Gingold Files.
Of all the projects being hawked at individual tables at the Frontières International Co-Production Market during Montreal’s Fantasia festival, the one with most attention-grabbing setup was Glass Eye Pix’s horror anthology The Mortuary Collection (see photo above). Read on for the visual and verbal details on the film (which was ultimately produced by another company, made its Quebec premiere at Fantasia 2020 and was released later that year—MG).
Director Ryan Spindell and producer Brent Kunkle of Glass Eye placed the props seen above to visually represent The Mortuary Collection, a four-part tale of terror that will mark Spindell’s feature debut after shorts like Kirksdale (which impressed this writer at the Tribeca Film Festival back in 2008) and The Root of the Problem. As opposed to the boundary-busting approach of the likes of the V/H/S movies and The ABCs of Death, this omnibus will adopt a more classical approach
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He’s certainly hooked up with the right team, as Glass Eye Pix and its president/producer Larry Fessenden have backed genre films set in many different times with many different tones. “I’ve been working within the studio world for a while,” Spindell explains, “and I was taking a lot of meetings and not making a lot of things, so I decided I was going to write a movie for myself as a die-hard horror fan and cinephile. And instead of going the normal Hollywood route with it, I went to Glass Eye, because I knew these guys were making really high-quality products for very low costs, and I love that DIY attitude. They were the first people I went to and they said yes, and we just took it from there.”
Moral: Never Give Up.
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