Interview with Lois Drabkin
Published on March 14, 2026

Casting Director Lois Drabkin discusses her collaboration with Glass Eye Pix on films including BENEATH, THE RANGER, FOXHOLE, BLACKOUT and TRAUMA OR, MONSTERS ALL as well as her contributions to SIZE UP, CRUMB CATCHER and UNTIL DAWN among many diverse projects. Interview and Edit by Larry Fessenden.

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Now It Can be told:

Fuller’s latest album is the original soundtrack to Everything Must Go, directed by Ted Geoghegan. Marking his first non-adult-industry soundtrack, Fuller was encouraged by Geoghegan to lean into an ’80s synthwave sound. Naturally, Fuller interpreted that note as permission to go all-in on vintage textures, analog pulse, and synthetic choir sounds inspired by films such as Demons. In fact, Fuller even convinced his label-mates Witchboard to remix the final track on the album, which they’ve fittingly titled “The Demoni Mix.” The result is a neon-tinged choir of strung-out angels (or demons) wrapped in late-night electronics and a distinctly retro sense of dread.

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released March 4, 2026
ALL MUSIC BY LUKE FULLER except for Track 8 THE MALL Demoni remix by Witchboard

When I made We Are Still Here way back in 2014, I realized that the chances of me ever directing anything set in the present were slim-to-none. Two films and one audio drama later, it’s remained very, very true. To be fair, I just don’t care for the present.

Nostalgia? Now that’s where it’s at.

I was born in the 70s, grew up in the 80s, and came of age in the 90s. When folks complain of Stranger Things’ abuse of “nostalgia porn”, I roll my eyes. The past may not have been perfect (Spoiler Alert: IT WASN’T), but I can’t deny missing the carefree years of my youth. Any excuse I have to creep out of the present, I’m going to take it.

That said, I was a mallrat before Kevin Smith claimed the word. I grew up going to the massive, labyrinthine Holiday Village Mall in Great Falls, Montana at least once a week throughout all of the 1980s. My father would pick me up from school and take me there every Friday, where we’d get cheese dogs and Orange Juiliuses (Julili?). After lunch, we’d spend an hour in Aladdin’s Castle Arcade, pouring quarters into Galaga and Gauntlet until my fingers ached.

When tasked with writing a Tale, I knew I wanted it to occur at the mall that now exists solely in my mind. The story, which occurs in the same fictional Lovecraftian town that We Are Still Here was set, wasn’t intended as a spiritual sequel, but a spiritual sibling.

Audio-only storytelling is a blessing to someone like myself, who is used to working in film, but I quickly realized that if sound was all I had, my voice actors had to be top tier. Landing the performances I wanted while working with close pals was a gift, and reminded me of a motto by old friend David Lawson: “Make movies with friends.” The results are amazing.

I’d been close friends with Clay von Carlowitz and Asta Paredes for over a decade and alway wanted to work with them. Benjamin Frankenberg, who I’d become buddies with a few years back, was in the same boat. I’d seen Chloe Levine in The Ranger and knew Xero Gravity from her amazing, next-level horror journalism work. Of course I wanted to have them at the mall-party.

The role of Poppa Jim was one we’d tried to crack for weeks and when someone on the team brought up Joe Bob Briggs, I leapt at the idea. I was watching him on late night television at the very same time I was loitering at the mall, and the connection felt too honest to pass up.

Everything Must Go was the single finest experience of my directorial career. Without the weight of the screen, we got to just have fun. Every take, every note… it all just felt nice.

I hope everyone tuning in to Everything Must Go finds a way to slide back to a simpler time. The 80s were special to many of us, but were also a dumpster fire. Including Reagan in my episode wasn’t just about setting a time, but about acknowledging someone from the era who, well… sucked.

Nostalgia is a powerful beast, and allows us to see the best in everything. I’m grateful to have harnessed it for my Tale, and I hope it warms your black little hearts as much as it did mine.

Ted Geoghegan
March, 2026

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EVERYTHING MUST GO
Written and Directed by Ted Geoghegan
A group of teens get more than they bargained for when hired to break into
a shopping mall that’s swallowing a small town’s economy.

Cast: Chloë Levine, Clay Von Carlowitz, Benjamin Frankenberg,
Xero Gravity, Asta Paredes, and Joe Bob Briggs
Original score composed by Luke Fuller
Sound recording, design, and mix by Matt Rocker
Produced by Larry Fessenden and Glenn McQuaid
along with Rigo Garay and Jordan Gass-Pooré
Poster artwork by Jason Beam

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FROM OVERLOOK:

Additional festival highlights include the World Premiere of Larry Fessenden’s new film, Trauma or, Monsters All, the final film of his personal quadrilogy, bringing together the creatures from the previous films in the horror master’s long and varied career. As part of this premiere showcase, the Overlook will also be screening the first three films from the Fessenden-verse which lead up to his new opus, including previous Overlook inclusions Blackout and Depraved, as well as his 1995 classic Habit.

HABIT

Filmmaker in attendance

Larry Fessenden | 1995 | USA | 112 min. Indie icon Larry Fessenden’s first feature, about an alcoholic New Yorker who falls for a mysterious woman with vampiric qualities, is as groundbreaking now as it was when it debuted over 20 years ago, inspiring generations of young horror filmmakers to this day.

Cast: Larry Fessenden, Meredith Snaider 

DEPRAVED

Filmmaker in attendance

Larry Fessenden | 2019 | USA | 114 min. The second in Larry Fessenden’s genre-bending four movie monsterverse is a millennial take on the Frankenstein myth in which a PTSD-riddled field surgeon deep in the heart of Brooklyn decides to reconstruct an unsuspecting man out of spare body parts.

Cast: David Call, Joshua Leonard, Alex Breaux, Ana Kayne, Mara Dizzia, Chloe Levine, Owen Campbell, Addison Timlin

BLACKOUT

Filmmaker in attendance

Larry Fessenden | 2023 | USA | 103 min. Not your typical werewolf story, Blackout follows a painter, haunted by guilt, who becomes convinced that he is transforming at night and wreaking havoc in his small town in the third of Larry Fessenden’s four part monsterverse series. 

Cast: Alex Hurt, Addison Timlin, Motell Gyn Foster, Joseph Castillo-Midyett, John Speredakos

TRAUMA OR, MONSTERS ALL

World Premiere

Filmmaker in attendance

Larry Fessenden | 2026 | USA | 118 min. An aspiring author gets more than she bargained for when she writes an article for the local paper about her small town’s dark history, prompting unwanted speculation on what monsters may lie within. Overlook mainstay Larry Fessenden returns with the thrilling conclusion to his quadrilogy, a thoughtful and fiercely independent monster mash that can be enjoyed on its own or marathoned with his three origin stories – Habit, Depraved, and Blackout.

Cast: LAËTITIA HOLLARD,  AITANA DOYLE
ADDISON TIMLIN,  ALEX HURT, ALEX BREAUX, LARRY FESSENDEN 
JOHN SPEREDAKOS, CODY KOSTRO,  MARC SENTER 
MICHEÁL NEESON  RIGO GARAY  JOSEPH CASTILLO-MIDYETT  BARBARA CRAMPTON as Kate with JOSHUA LEONARD and JAMES LE GROS

Friday the 13th of March
BECK UNDERWOOD’S THE LURE OF PONIES is making its Mexican debut in Guanajuato, MEXICO
curated by Alejandro Montes Santamaria 
@aurorahorror
at the Museum of Quixote Iconography
the worlds largest museum of all things Don Quixote.
in the zona centro
@iconografico_quijote

Followed by a screening in San Miguel de Allende
SATURDAY 21 March
at BiblioTeca Publica
3PM

Friday The 13th Trivia Night: The Sequel

Test your knowledge of horror sequels from various franchises and support the upcoming podcast series about the life and work of Debra Hill, the co-creator/producer of Halloween and the OG final girl.

7PM – 9PM Friday, March 13th
@ Crystal Lake Bar
647 Grand St. Brooklyn