The Nov 7th Glass Eye Pix Palooza-Con will offer many new releases
including a brand new 88 pg comic book from Glass Eye Comix and We’re Wolf Films:

THE DAMNED AND THE DANGEROUS
written by Glenn McQuaid and Ted Geoghegan
Artwork and lettering by Brahm Revel.

STAY TUNED FOR MORE MERCH REVEALS!!

GLASS EYE PIX PALOOZA-CON 
Erupts in Manhattan NOVEMBER 7

The ONE DAY ONLY EVENT hosted by Ideal Glass Studio
Coincides with The IFC Center’s “OPTIC NERVE”
Celebration of the 40-Year-Old Indie Production Company

NYC OCT 20 — Glass Eye Pix is proud to announce the first-ever Glass Eye Pix Palooza-Con (aka GEP-CON), a one-day-only brick-and-mortar store located in the heart of Manhattan celebrating 40 years of Larry Fessenden’s iconic NYC production company. The convention / party / pop-up store happens in conjunction with the IFC Center’s Optic Nerve screening series, which celebrates 40 years of Glass Eye Pix, featuring select work by Ti West, Jim Mickle, and Glenn McQuaid, as well as Larry Fessenden’s acclaimed Monster Quadrilogy.

GEP-CON will take place at Ideal Glass Studios, located at 9 West 8th Street, from noon through 11PM on November 7th. The store will feature mountains of Glass Eye Pix films, including Blu-Rays and 4K discs from Vinegar Syndrome and Dark Sky Films, hard-to-find VHS tapes, and other assorted rarities. Also for sale will be Blu-Rays from the new Glass Eye Pix video label, featuring early work by Ti West, James Felix McKenney, and Graham Reznick.

Glass Eye Pix Palooza-Con will feature curated displays of costumes and props from GEP films going back to the 1990s. The event’s walls will feature posters chronicling Glass Eye’s decades-long journey, dating all the way back to Fessenden’s time in the late 1980s, chronicling East Village performance artist and stuntman David Leslie (aka The Impact Addict).

In addition to films, GEP-CON will sell brand new t-shirts and handcrafted Wendigo figurines sculpted by James Felix McKenney. Also available are CDs and vinyl editions of various scores, Fessenden’s pub rock band Just Desserts, and other rarities. A back catalog of Glass Eye Comix will be purchasable, alongside the debut of The Damned and the Dangerous, a thrilling new one-shot graphic novel from Glenn McQuaid and Ted Geoghegan, illustrated by the legendary Brahm Revel.

Proving it’s far more than simply a pop-up event, a number of eye-catching digital displays throughout Glass Eye Pix Palooza-Con will feature mini-documentaries, rare behind-the-scenes footage, creepy Christmas films, sizzle reels, short films, and rare features in the auditorium section of the venue. Attending, signing, and yes, even working the register at GEP-CON will be a litany of Glass Eye founders, filmmakers, alumni, and extended family members.

As evening descends upon the space, GEP-CON will shift focus to live events, including a performance of a brand-new episode of Glenn McQuaid and Larry Fessenden’s much-celebrated audio drama series, Tales from Beyond the Pale, featuring a cast of very special guests. Music and additional acts will follow, and the evening will end with a rousing birthday celebration of the Glass Eye Pix legacy.

Optic Nerve: A Tribute to Glass Eye Pix runs from October 28 through November 3 at Manhattan’s IFC Center (323 6th Avenue). Fessenden’s acclaimed latest, Trauma or, Monsters All, arrives in cinemas the following day. 

Glass Eye Pix Palooza-Con located at Ideal Glass Studio (9 West 8th Street), will take place from noon until 11PM on Saturday, November 7, 2026. It celebrates the company’s wonderful accomplishments, while offering the public a unique opportunity to witness GEP’s legacy first-hand. Larry Fessenden founded Glass Eye Pix with a singular desire – to make independent-minded cinema. Walking through this convention / party / pop-up store will offer an intimate look behind the curtain of Glass Eye Pix’s stunning body of film work, created at a time and place in the heart of New York City.

FROM DREAD CENTRAL by Matt Konopka

The world is full of trauma…and monsters. 

Dark Sky Films has unveiled the trailer for Larry Fessenden‘s (Habit) creature feature, Trauma Or, Monsters All. It’s packed full of monsters, and looks like everything fans have come to expect from the singular filmmaker’s work. 

Produced by Glass Eye Pix, the film serves as the culmination of Fessenden’s decades-long reinterpretation of the classic Universal monsters, bringing together the vampire, Frankenstein’s monster, and the werewolf from his acclaimed films Habit, Depraved, and Blackout into one haunting contemporary story.

In the film, visiting writer Cassandra (Laëtitia Hollard, currently appearing in NBC’s acclaimed medical drama The Pitt) arrives in the quiet upstate town of Talbot Falls to research a book on George Washington Carver while working at the local library alongside her new friend Agnes (Aitana Doyle). After Cassandra publishes an article exposing the town’s unsettling past, buried secrets begin to surface as a werewolf, vampire, and Frankenstein creation emerge from the shadows, forcing the community to confront generations of fear, guilt, and suppressed trauma. 

Vampires, werewolves, Frankenstein’s monster, and loads of creature feature mayhem? Fessenden appears to have created the dream monster mashup that Universal has struggled to get together for years. And my monster-loving heart is filled with antici…pation. 

The ensemble cast features Laëtitia Hollard, Aitana Doyle, Addison Timlin, Alex Hurt, Alex Breaux, Larry Fessenden, John Speredakos, Marc Senter, Micheál Neeson, Joshua Leonard, Barbara Crampton, James Le Gros, with appearances by Emily Bennett and Toby Poser, alongside a host of returning Glass Eye Pix collaborators.

Said Fessenden, “I’ve spent my career reimagining classic monsters because they reveal something deeply human about us. Trauma Or, Monsters All brings those stories together into one film about memory, identity, and the wounds we carry. I’m grateful to reunite with Dark Sky Films, whose support of independent horror has made them the perfect home for this project.” 

Added Greg Newman, EVP of Dark Sky Films, “Our partnership with Larry Fessenden and Glass Eye Pix spans many years and some of the most influential independent horror films of their era. Trauma Or, Monsters All is another bold, uncompromising work from one of the genre’s true visionaries, and we’re proud to bring it to audiences.”

Experience Trauma Or, Monsters All when the film releases in theaters on November 4th with an opening at the IFC Center in New York, followed by a Los Angeles opening at Lumiere Music Hall and additional markets.

Read the article at DREAD CENTRAL

trailer edit by Garo Setian at Hungry Monster Entertainment

I wrote “The Podwatchers” in early 2023, and that first version centered around some of the (then) new developments in AI.  Joke was on me: I had to completely re-think and re-write it every few months for three more years as invasive AI tech and its fanatical pushers keep evolving faster than future-projecting sci-fi satire could keep up.  Anything specific became immediately dated; anything vague felt generic and toothless.  But the effect of pervasive, invasive AI is now clear: an alarming amount of our shared reality has been devalued to the point where little can be trusted.  

I’m writing this in October 2026 after a family game night at my kid’s school – and all the taped up game flyers around the schoolyard were made with AI.  At an open classroom event, I was shocked to learn that the school was pushing generative AI on the students in order for them to make presentations.  

This indoctrination is not a path to a future that values creativity, reality, or humanity.  This is a path to mental, financial and cultural enslavement – but to whom?  Or to what? Tech oligarchs? Corrupt dictatorships? Something worse we can’t even imagine?  If this sounds pessimistic, fatalistic, nihilistic – it’s because it is.  This is end-of-existence stuff, and we’re collectively running straight toward it, whether we want to or not.  There are only two things that give me optimism against this rotten tide: art and empathy.  Two things both AI and AI evangelists will never comprehend.  Will it be enough? Let’s all find out together. 

Graham Reznick
October 9th 2026
Earth

THE PODWATCHERS
Written and Directed by Graham Reznick

Fessenden’s Monsterverse Mashup flick
TRAUMA OR, MONSTERS ALL
lands an official Staff Pick at the Woodstock Film Festival 2026

get your tix!

OPTIC NERVE: A TRIBUTE TO GLASS EYE PIX

Wednesday, October 28 – Tuesday, November 3, 2026

A bona fide indie original and New York City filmmaking hero, Larry Fessenden is a legend in genre and independent film. Through his production company Glass Eye Pix (“One of the indie scene’s most productive and longest-running companies” —Filmmaker Magazine), Fessenden has directed, written and acted in horror favorites like HABIT, THE LAST WINTER and DEPRAVED, and provided early support to filmmakers ranging from Ti West to Kelly Reichardt.

In honor of the 40th anniversary of Glass Eye Pix and the upcoming release of his latest TRAUMA, OR MONSTERS ALL, opening at IFC Center on Wed, Nov 4, join us for a seven-film retrospective spanning highlights from Fessenden’s remarkable, multifaceted career.

24 Hour screening of GEP Pal JT Petty’s Short BLOOD RED EARTH,
Glass Eye Pix produced prequel to his feature film THE BURROWERS.
BLOOD RED EARTH was shot in the Hudson Valley and
produced by Peter Phok and Brent Kunkle in collaboration with Lionsgate and FearNet in 2008.  

From the Rue Morgue article by Michael Gingold

… Getting back to TALES FROM BEYOND THE PALE, are there more of those coming up?

Well, we’re on season six right now, and I just wrote and directed the last episode, “Three Raps on the Buoy,” which stars Ron Perlman, Ashley Bell and Declan Reynolds, who plays Lee in GRAYSON MANOR [see details here]. And we have Graham Reznick’s piece coming up next week as well. I’m very excited and thankful for TALES FROM BEYOND THE PALE; it’s a great platform for us to be able to get work out quickly. And I have a story by myself and Declan Reynolds called “Stay Out!” that I’m going to be doing live in New York in November [details to come—MG]. That’s very much based on a feature film script that I believe will be next for me.

TALES has been a launching pad for a few movies now. Do you foresee more features being developed out of those stories?

I’d love to. I mean, we have almost 60 at this point. When we first started TALES, it was part of the concept that myself and Larry and everyone else we invited had feature scripts lying around, and it might be a nice platform to get the content out there, give it some legs and move it on up to a feature film. The first person to do that was Larry with BLACKOUT, and I know April Snellings has a great TALE called “Food Chain” and has been working on a feature script version of that. Likewise, with “Stay Out!”, I really believe it’s important to get that story out, give it some legs and move forward with it.

Is there anything else you’d like to say about RESTORATION AT GRAYSON MANOR?

Just that it’s been such a wild, long journey, and I’m so thankful for the kindness and support I’ve being shown by all the people who have seen the movie, and those who are excited to see it as well.

Read about THE RESTORATION OF GRAYSON MANOR at Rue Morgue