From Maggio: The Brush tells the story of how I tried to keep up with a pack of feral British comedians at Russell Howard’s 2019 Las Vegas bachelor party (you call it a ‘stag do’), nearly died in the process and had an existential crisis that led me to question the meaning of life, emojis, regret, failure, proper urinal protocol and the exquisite sadism that is the American healthcare system. Part confession, part apology, part love letter to life, The Brush is a bittersweet, darkly humorous reflection on friendship, middle-aged ennui and the quantum nature of the universe.

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FANGORIA: Watch The Trailer For This Year’s SCARY MOVIES
Series At Lincoln Center

James Siewert‘s epic animated music video of Fessenden’s song “Tender” by the band Just Desserts
unspools at PFCAT—Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation and Technology

See it on the big screen with Siewert in attendance
Thursday August 20 8PM

Filmmaker Mixer Podcast | Filmmaking Interviews & Industry Insights

Beck Underwood joins Filmmaker Mixer to discuss her debut feature film, The Lure of Ponies, and a filmmaking journey that spans more than 25 short films, stop-motion animation, production design, and decades of independent filmmaking. In this conversation, Beck shares lessons learned from creating animated shorts, curating film festivals, and transitioning from short-form storytelling to a feature-length film. Filmmakers will gain practical insights into visual storytelling, creative persistence, and building a sustainable artistic career. Whether you’re an animator, indie filmmaker, or festival enthusiast, this episode offers a fascinating look into a unique creative path.

Beck Underwood’s THE LURE OF PONIES unspools at
PFCAT—Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation and Technology
August 18—23 2026

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TRAUMA OR, MONSTERS ALL
Director: Larry Fessenden. 
Cast: Larry Fessenden, Alex Breaux, Alex Hurt, Laetitia Hollard. 
USA 2026. 118 mins.

UK PREMIERE – A Trieste Science+Fiction Presentation – Horror icon Larry Fessenden returns with his eighth indie genre film and it’s a monster mash destined to be a graveyard smash. Serving as a sequel to three other films he has written and directed: 1995’s vampire tale HABIT, his 2019 Frankenstein Monster riff DEPRAVED and the 2023 werewolf repurposing BLACKOUT. Placing his trio of ghouls under one humanist and uncanny roof, a writer investigating the dark past of the town of Talbot Falls for a newspaper article stirs up fears about the lurking monsters. Fessenden’s final chapter of his quadrilogy works as a standalone event and a series finale.

FRIDAY 28 1:30 PM

Top: Emily Bennett, Sharif El Neklawy, Gaby Leyner, Aitana Doyle, Fessenden, Tilson Allen-Merry, Jack Fessenden

Row 2: Aitana Doyle & Fessenden

Row 3: Tilson Allen-Merry, Aitana Doyle, Fessenden, Gaby Leyner, Sharif El Neklawy

Bottom; poster snaps!

‘Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer,’ ‘Wendigo’ Restorations, and 14 More Films Set for Lincoln Center’s Scary Movies Lineup

New 4K Restoration
“Wendigo“
Larry Fessenden, 2001, U.S., 91m
Monday, August 17 at 6:30pm – Q&A with Larry Fessenden

By Ryan Lattanzio

Larry Fessenden—founder of the downtown production outfit Glass Eye Pix, and the city’s reigning maestro of uncompromising, fiercely independent genre fare—returns to Scary Movies for a 25th anniversary celebration of the landmark 2001 chiller that might be his most influential work to date. Erik Per Sullivan stars as Miles, the watchful 10-year-old son of photographer George (Jack Webster) and therapist Kim (Patricia Clarkson), whose life is irrevocably altered in the course of a snowbound upstate vacation. Driving through icy woods to a borrowed cabin, the close-knit family of Manhattanites are rattled when their car hits and injures a deer, attracting the ire of three local hunters who’d been tracking it for sport and profit. As his parents struggle to establish a fragile peace with their disgruntled neighbors, young Miles takes an interest in the story of the Wendigo, a voracious shapeshifter from Native American mythology. This sequence of events sets the stage for a formative encounter with vengeful nature and the elemental—yet indelibly human—mechanics of violence, unfolding across a wintry Catskills landscape that Fessenden’s 16mm camerawork infuses with an otherworldly glow. An IFC Films release.

4K restoration from the original 16mm camera negative by Vinegar Syndrome.

article at indiewire has the full story

TRAUMA OR, MONSTERS ALL unspools at the 26th Annual Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal
Opening Night: Thursday July 16 and Friday July 17

CITY WIDE FEVER by Josh Heaps is now streaming on Midnight Pulp.

Executive Produced by Guy Maddin, Robert Forbes, Richard Stoeffel, Jim Stoeffel, Brooks May,
Amanda Romo, Franklin Laviola (BLACKOUT, FOXHOLE), Nicholas Laviola

Featuring: Diletta Guglielmi, Angelica Kim, Nancy Kimball, Hugo Alexander-Rose, Rutanya Alda, Onur Tukel,
Ian Fidance, Carolyn Farina, Larry Fessenden, Douglas Buck, Stan Oh, Michael M. Bilandic, Maggie.

Sam, a young film student, discovers a hard drive detailing the life and career of forgotten
Giallo Italian horror director Saturnino Barresi. As she begins to investigate his mysterious disappearance,
Sam finds herself pulled into a violent conspiracy eerily similar to those of the films she adores.

Stream CITY WIDE FEVER today!