Ahhh memories, Audiophiles. Time changes how we remember things… sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse. We thought you might enjoy these macabre memoirs while you ease into the holidays. So sit back. Close your eyes. And… listen… to Larry Fessenden’s “The Hole Digger” and Glenn McQuaid’s “The Crush,” now streaming at the TALES Listening Room.

Tonight, Joe Swanberg’s new movie, ALL THE LIGHT IN THE SKY, will play the Arthouse Film Festival with Fessenden in attendence and a Q&A after the movie. The event takes place at the AMC Lowes Mountainside in Mountainside, NJ.

Check out the trailer for the film below, starring Fessenden alongside Jane Adams, Sophia Takal, Simon Barrett, Ti West, et al. Learn more about the Arthouse Film Festival here.

Not in NJ? ALL THE LIGHT IN THE SKY is coming to iTunes and VOD/Digital platforms on Dec. 3rd, will have its theatrical premiere in Chicago November 29th and open in New York on December 20th with more screenings through the winter.

Glass Eye Pix invites you to count down 25 days till Christmas with the Creepy Christmas Advent Calendar. Get your calendar here!

What better way to celebrate the holiday season than with a daily peek behind the doors and windows, nooks and crannies of this mysterious doll village assembled by artist and stop-motion animator Beck Underwood? See vintage dolls and Santas, stuffed critters and misfit toys, all to delight and tease in this merry celebration of Christmas mischief.

Get yours now, plus see GEP collaborators’ short films from the Creepy Christmas Film Festival.

Check out the BIRTH OF THE LIVING DEAD segment from the Zombie Politics and Casino Capitalism episode of MOYERS & COMPANY–

From BillMoyers.com—

“One of our editors, Rob Kuhns, has made a mesmerizing documentary about the creation of George A. Romero’s movie classic Night of the Living Dead, the granddaddy of all the zombie movies and TV shows so popular today.

What’s striking about the documentary, titled Birth of the Living Dead, is how it places the 1968 movie in its particular place and time, when civil unrest and violence gave the nation nightmares and zombies were a metaphor for an American public that was deeply troubled and distressed.”

Greetings Audiophiles,

As we head into the Holiday Season, the Tales From Beyond The Pale HQ thought it worth reminding you that family life is often better called… family strife. See what we mean with Joe Maggio’s “Man On The Ledge” and Sarah Langan’s “Is This Seat Taken?” streaming now at the TALES Listening Room.

New article at Horror-Movies.ca provides thoughtful analysis of the New Wave of horror auteurs and throws some love to the “underdog” Fessenden, reminding us of the exhaustive article from Clark Collis a while back chronicling the same territory. Interesting to see people putting the pieces together. Read the article here.

From the article–

“…By telling smaller and more personal stories the audiences are beginning to turn their backs on the remake machine. Between V/H/S and You’re Next all of the Next Wave has collaborated together, and it may have not been made possible without horror’s underdog Larry Fessenden. This leads us to our current Horror Spotlight.

Larry Fessenden

Fessenden made a name for himself in the mid-nineties with Habit (1995). Between Habit and Abel Ferrera’s The Addiction, there was a movement toward vampire realism, though it did not last (we eventually got stuck with Twilight but that’s a different rant entirely).  It seemed as though Fessenden was striving for a cinematic vision of the disintegration of humanity. This theme would later pop up in Wendigo (2001), The Last Winter (2006), and most recently in Beneath (2013). All of Fessenden’s films fly below the radar but provide original stories through low budget means. Although his directing credits are rather slim, it is his role as a supporter of the arts that makes Larry an extremely important figure in recent horror.

As a producer and owner of Glass Eye Pix, Fessenden helped Ti West with his debut The Roost (2005) and continued supporting him with Trigger Man (2007), House Of The Devil (2009) and The Innkeepers (2011). He also produced Jim Mickle’s Stake Land (2010) who has gone on to make the We Are What We Are (2013) remake. Fessenden produced and stared in I Sell The Dead (2008) which was Glenn McQuaid’s debut as a feature filmmaker. Fessenden and McQuaid are also the creative team behind Tales From Beyond The Pale, a horror radio show with two seasons available online. McQuaid began as a visual effects artist on Ti West’s The Roost and eventually went on to direct a segment of V/H/S (2012). Glass Eye Pix has two documentaries releasing this year, the George Romero doc Birth Of The Living Dead and American Jesus.

Fessenden shows up everywhere as an actor, but mostly in anything indie-horror related. He worked with Ti West and Eli Roth on Cabin Fever 2: Spring Forever (2009) which also featured Joe Swanberg in a tiny role as well. Ti and Eli formed their friendship through the production of Cabin Fever 2 and this eventually led to Eli Roth producing West’s The Sacrament (2013). Fessenden appears in Joe Swanberg’s Silver Bullets (2011) and All The Lights In The Sky (2012). Jeremy Gardner also had Fessenden provide a menacing voice on the radio in The Battery (2012). He recently starred in Chad Kinkle’s Jug Face (2013) and of course had a role in You’re Next.

Larry Fessenden’s penchant for realism within his own monster films makes it only fitting that he has lent himself to horror’s Next Wave filmmakers. With two decades of experience in the horror genre, he has never passed up an opportunity to show corrosive institutions and the folly of hubris. These elements are again featured in Tales From Beyond The Pale which brings together the writing talents of Simon Barrett, film theorist Kim Newman, and Glenn McQuaid. Beyond The Pale also teams Fessenden with the voices of Joe Swanberg, Amy Seimetz, and AJ Bowen to name just a few.

In an interview with Eric Stanze from Fearnet, Fessenden describes what his segment of ABC’s Of Death 2 will be about, “sex, death, the pointlessness of it all. My usual concerns!” During his fascinating career, Fessenden has shown time and time again that the truly diabolical nature of mankind is what drives the horror genre. Audiences could care less about the often sympathetic monster or the film’s survivors, they want their suspicions about despicable people brought to life. Fessenden has created in his body of work a nihilistic landscape that, unfortunately, we can all relate to.”

Joe Swanberg’s ALL THE LIGHT IN THE SKY, featuring Fessenden alongside Jane Adams, Sophia Takal, Simon Barrett, et al, is coming to iTunes and VOD/Digital platforms on Dec. 3rd. It will have its theatrical premiere in Chicago November 29th and open in New York on December 20th with more screenings through the winter.

From the press release:

Factory 25 announced today that it has acquired director Joe Swanberg’s All the Light in the Sky, his next film after the indie-breakthrough hit from earlier this year, Drinking Buddies. All the Light in the Sky features a leading performance from acclaimed veteran character actor Jane Adams (who is also currently filming MGM’s much-anticipated Poltergeist reimagining.) Adams and Swanberg also collaborated on the film’s screenplay.

Adams (Happiness, HBO’s “Hung,” Little Children, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, among countless others) stars as an actress living in Malibu who faces harsh realities of the industry as her age exempts her from more and more acting opportunities. Amidst this career and life crisis enters the actress’s niece, played by Sophia Takal (Green, Gabi on the Roof in July, V/H/S), who arrives for a weekend stay and ushers in a complex prism of emotional insecurities. Can the actress confront her fears, complicated relationships, and figure out how to navigate mid-life in Hollywood?

The film also features some of today’s up-and-coming indie film personalities: Kent Osborne (Uncle Kent), Allison Baar (Bad Fever), Simon Barrett (V/H/S), Lindsay Burdge (A Teacher), Larry Fessenden (The Last Winter), Lawrence Michael Levine (Green), Susan Traylor (Greenberg) and Ti West (The Sacrament)…

…Factory 25 is releasing the film digitally on December 3rd via cable VOD, iTunes, Amazon VUDU, X-Box, Sony Playstation and many other digital outlets. The film premieres theatrically in Chicago on November 29th and will open in NYC on December 20th with additional across the country with screenings continuing through the winter.

Greetings Audiophiles, this week we feature two tales concerned with matters of the mind and body. I’m not quite sure we can say that either are particularly… healthy… Graham Reznick’s “The Grandfather” and Paul Solet’s “The Conformation” are now streaming at the Tales Listening Room.

Until next time, listener…

Get all the details on the premiere of Beck Underwood’s newest stop-motion film here.

Hey New York! Whether you’re on foot, car, bike, or subway, get on over to IFC Center to see BIRTH OF THE LIVING DEAD.

Not in New York? Check out all the theater playdates here, or watch the doc On Demand or on iTunes.

Learn more about Rob Kuhns’ documentary on the making and impact of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD at the official site and check out the trailer below.