Glass Eye Pix’s new werewolf film, directed by Adrian Garcia Bogliano, will be coming to theaters and TV sets November 21st!
Ahead of that it’ll play Woodstock Film Festival October 16th and 18th, with Fessenden and Brent Kunkle in attendance.
It will also be playing Lincoln Center November 1st, with a Q&A with Nick Damici. Get tix and more details here.
LATE PHASES played Fantasia Festival this weekend, and the reviews are rolling in!
BLOODY DISGUSTING calls the film “a masterpiece of the werewolf genre” and The Hollywood Reporter says, “Nick Damici is the Charles Bronson of blind, senior-citizen werewolf hunters.”
Check out the full Bloody Disgusting review here and the full Hollywood Reporter review here.
And stay tuned for for more news on LATE PHASES!
We are proud to announce that LATE PHASES, Adrián García Bogliano’s old-school creature feature, will have its Canadian Premiere at this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival! If you’re attending the legendary fest, be sure to catch the screening this saturday, July 19th, at 5:00PM. For the full details, head over to the Fantasia Fest website, where you’ll also find a positively glowing writeup about the film.
“(Late Phases) has delivered a true love letter to ’80s monster-movie buffs and all those hankering for a good old-fashioned werewolf picture.”
– Tony Timpone, Fangoria
From SXSW Roundup by Mike Ryan at hammertonail.com
Late Phases (Adrian Garcia Bogliano, 95m) — One of the best films I saw in a once again very strong Midnight section was this straightforward-but-brilliant werewolf movie. As with Xan Cassavettes’ Kiss Of The Damned from last year, I am most attracted to genre purists who work within the three-chord structure of their respective genre and through rigorous personal exploration of the core foundations of the code, completely reinvent the genre.
Late Phases starts deceptively simple, with a very tart TV-movie-of-the-week set-up and pacing but, by the middle of the second act, gets torn to bits like the graphic transformation scene in which we watch a trusted deacon in the church pull off his nose and ears as hair pokes through his chest cavity. Or the bizarre scene on a church bench when the head priest (Tom Noonan) and our war hero Ambrose (Nick Damichi) talk about the evil that men do while describing the act of killing innocent children.
The transformation from human to monster is ripe for so much fertile metaphorical relationships; the most obvious one here is the transformation from youth to old age heightened by the fact that the film is set in an old age retirement community. I also particularly liked the father/son relationship, which opened up the idea that as sons, we all become our fathers, as much as we fight the urge; at times, we all feel that matted, nasty smelling hair poking out, or at least clawing to get out. Likewise, we are willing to shoot ourselves in the foot in order to kill that evil beast. Hats off to low-budget horror masterminds Larry Fessenden and Brent Kunkle at Glass Eye Pix, who manage to make creatures and effects feel more real than any mega-budget CGI extravaganza on I am sure what is a nano-percentage of the typical Hollywood budget. This is one film that I hope gets into every megaplex. It’s elevated the werewolf film to a whole other level.
Adrian Garcia Bogliano’s LATE PHASES, from MPI’s Dark Sky Films and Zak Zeman’s Site B Productions, with Fessenden and Brent Kunkle producing for Glass Eye Pix, premieres tonight as part of SXSW’s Midnighters section!
Check out the festival screenings below, and read an interview with star Nick Damici at The Wrap.
Screenings:
World Premiere: Sunday, March 9th, 11:45pm (Alamo Ritz 1&2)
Public Screening #2: Thursday, March 13th, 11:45pm (Alamo Ritz 2)
Public Screening #3: Friday, March 14th, 11:59pm (SXSatellite: Marchesa)
Adrian Garcia Bogliano’s LATE PHASES, from MPI’s Dark Sky Films and Zak Zeman’s Site B Productions, with Fessenden and Brent Kunkle producing for Glass Eye Pix, has been selected for the Midnighters section of SXSW 2014! Get all the details on the film’s World Premiere at SXSW.com.
Synopsis:
Crescent Bay is not the ideal place to spend one’s golden years, especially since the once-idyllic retirement community has been beset by a series of deadly animal attacks from the ominous forest surrounding it. When grizzled war veteran Ambrose McKinley (Nick Damici) is forced into moving there by his yuppie son Will (Ethan Embry), the residents immediately take offense to Ambrose’s abrasive personality. But that take-no-prisoners attitude may be just what Ambrose needs to survive as it becomes clear that the attacks are being caused by creatures that are neither animal nor man, and that the tight-knit community of Crescent Bay is hiding something truly sinister in its midst…
“Adrián García Bogliano’s Here Comes the Devil is what would happen if psychological terror and weird sex shit came to a Mentos commercial. Stilted as fuck, fueled on pregnant pauses and eyeball acting that makes virtually every character appear to have a thyroid condition, the movie revels in the kind of unnaturalness the ’70s schlock it so admires could only settle for….I never stopped wanted to see what the fuck ridiculous thing it was going to throw at me next. It intensifies at certain points into shockingly brutal violence, and is more effective for being so felicitous about that. Without going excessive and taking a torture-porn turn, this movie shows you that it means business and isn’t just some jump-scare-loaded, soft-R-for scary bullshit…”
Check out the full Gawker review here: Here Comes the Devil Is the Most Fun Horror Movie of 2013
HERE COMES THE DEVIL is now playing at Cinema Village in NYC and Sundance Sunset Cinema in LA.
Stay tuned for news on Bogliano’s upcoming feature with Glass Eye Pix, LATE PHASES.
By Clark Collis, Entertainment Weekly
Latin America has become a horror film hot spot over the past couple of years, thanks in large part to director Adrián García Bogliano, whose 2011 slow burn terror flick Penumbra is a must-see for fans of the genre. Now, Bogliano is hoping to make a splash in the U.S. with his new movie, Late Phases, which is currently shooting in upstate New York.
The director’s first English-language film, Late Phases relates the story of a cantankerous Continue Reading »
With an official press release hitting tomorrow, two names have leaked via Twitter for Dark Sky Films, Site B and Glass Eye Pix’s Late Phases, now filming in NY.
Bitch Slap and “Spartacus” star Erin Cummings, pictured above, revealed via Twitter that she and Ethan Embry (pictured below; Vacancy, Can’t Hardly Wait, Empire Records) will star alongside Stake Land‘s Nick Damici in the werewolf pic being directed by Adrian Garcia Bogliano. Cummings and Embry play a married couple. Tina Louise also stars. Thanks toShocktillyoudrop for catching the news Continue Reading »
Director of photography ERNESTO HERRERA, director ADRIAN GARCIA BOGLIANO and producer BRENT KUNKLE on set day one filming LATE PHASES, written by ERIC STOLZE.
DARK SKY FILMS and SITE B present a GLASS EYE PIX production, producers GREG NEWMAN, ZAK ZEMAN and LARRY FESSENDEN.
Stake Land’s NICK DAMICI Continue Reading »
