September 26, 2012
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Trailer for Rick Alverson’s THE COMEDY now on-line

Available on itunes October 23; In Theaters November 9.  Watch the trailer


September 26, 2012
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TALES in EW

Read More at EW

September 22, 2012
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Tickets NOW on SALE for TALES LIVE

 

Celebrate Shocktober in style with  

TALES FROM BEYOND THE PALE LIVE!

Every night a double bill of terror at Dixon Place!

Tuesday October 2nd

RAM KING by Joe Maggio (Bitter Feast, Man on the Ledge)

LIKE FATHER LIKE SON by Clay McLeod Chapman (Henley, Rest Area)


Tuesday October 9th

STRANGER by Jeff Buhler (Midnight Meat Train, Insanitarium, This Oracle Moon)

DEAD MAN’S SHOES by Ashley Thorpe (The Demon Huntsman, The Hairy Hands)


Tuesday October 16th

SARAH MINDS THE DOG by Kim Newman (Anno Dracula, The Bloody Red Baron)

THE CRUSH by Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead, V/H/S)


Tuesday October 23rd

DEAD AIR by Simon Barrett (You’re Next, A Horrible Way to Die)

CAPER by Larry Fessenden  (The Last Winter, Beneath) 

 

Featuring the very special voice talents of: Sean Young, Michael Cerveris, Vincent D’Onofrio, James Le Gros, Mark Margolis and MANY MANY others! 

With live music from Natalia Paruz (The Saw Lady), Dave Eggar (Cello), Julian Maile (Theremin) and Fall on Your Sword

And live sound effects by  John Moros and live foley from Shaun Brennan.

 

Get your tickets now:

Tickets now available for TALES FROM BEYOND THE PALE LIVE at DIXON PLACE

https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/171/1349134200000

Tickets are $12 in advance, $15 at the door, $10 students / seniors.

 

Visit the TALES website for updates and announcements and to revisit SEASON ONE

September 19, 2012
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HYPOTHERMIA Poster Receives Media Spotlight!

 

Shock Till You Drop-

“Some new artwork was released for the Dark Sky Films release Hypothermia, hitting DVD on October 2nd.  You’ll recognize this one as another gem from The Dude Designs.  (A brief aside: I love the fact that companies are now going to artists to make creative poster art these days.)

James Felix McKenney directs and Michael Rooker stars.  Head inside for a larger look at the art…Read More”

MTV Geek-

Hypothermia! How awesome is this poster for the Michael Rooker-starring “Hypothermia” from Dark Sky Films? Comes out on Oct 2. Read More”

Joblo-

Well, it turns out Dark Sky films is bring exactly that premise into fruition with HYPOTHERMIA. Produced by Larry Fessenden (THE LAST WINTER, HOUSE OF THE DEVIL), HYPOTHERMIA looks like a blast of retro-80s, creature feature fun. Read More

Dread Central-

Around these parts we’re suckers for good poster art, and this newly released alternative artwork for Hypothermia is nothing short of badass. Hell, we’d see this flick just for the poster alone. Remember those days? Read More

Bloody Disgusting-

A family returns to their favorite winter getaway for some peaceful ice fishing little suspecting that they are about to become bait for a hideous underwater creature in Hypothermia, a bloody and bone-chilling shocker coming to DVD from genre specialists Dark Sky Films on October 2, 2012. This morning we landed a look at the home video’s wicked reversible sleeve with exclusive alternate cover art by The Dude Designs. Read More

Brutal as Hell-

I’ve lived in New England nearly all my life. And with all of the long winters I’ve endured I’ve only gone ice fishing once. It sucks. You spend the day freezing your ass off on a massive sheet of ice. For many though, it’s a welcome form of winter recreation. I say have at it. It’s not for me. Read More

Horror-Movies.ca-

Yep. The Dude Designs are at it again, unleashing even more awesome eye-candy for you and I. Below we have their poster for Dark Sky Films’ upcoming flick Hypothermia. Check it out below and gaze at its awesomeness.

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July 29, 2012
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Nice Write Up For ‘THE LAST WINTER’ Graphic Novel!

356graphicnovels.com features and gives kudos to the Graphic Novel adaptation of ‘THE LAST WINTER’.

“This is the graphic novelisation of the low budget indie horror/ drama The Last Winter. It concerns a remote oil drilling operation in Alaska and has a strong ecological message. It was constructed by the film’s storyboard artist Brahm Revel from an early draft of the script…”

Click Here  to read the full article.

July 16, 2012
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Just Desserts shoots music video with “HENLEY” director

In a belated effort to celebrate the 2011 release LOST IN LOVE, Just Desserts band members Fessenden, Tom Laverack and Mark Ambrosino perform for director Craig Macneill and cinematographer Noah Greenberg, collaborators on the Sundance short HENLEY.

Stay tuned for further news…

June 30, 2012
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V/H/S screens at BAM Sat 6/30/12

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

V/H/S — Part of BAMcinemaFest

Sat, Jun 30 at 10pm
Q&A with Sophia Takal, Helen Rogers, and Glenn McQuaid, moderated by Larry Fessenden

NY PREMIERE

Director: David Bruckner, Glenn McQuaid, Radio Silence, Joe Swanberg, Ti West, Adam Wingard
Executive Producer: Tom Owen, Zak Zeman
Producer: Roxanne Benjamin, Gary Binkow, Brad Miska, George Rausch
With Joe Swanberg, Adam Wingard, Sophia Takal, Kate Lyn Sheil, Calvin Reeder, Lane Hughes

(2012) 104min

This low-budget horror portmanteau film—helmed by the new generation of gore-teurs who brought you The InnkeepersA Horrible Way to Die, and Silver Bullets—takes found footage and canonical fright flicks and turns them on their respective severed heads. When a group of misfits is hired to break into a rural mansion to steal a videocassette, they end up finding a dead body, a sea of video decks, and a frightful VHS compilation that forms the backbone of this genre anthology. A Magnet release.

BAM Rose Cinemas

General Admission: $13
BAM Cinema Club Members: $8
Movie Moguls: Free
Seniors: $10

 

June 26, 2012
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ROOFTOP FILMS presents “THE COMEDY” Wed 27 June

THE FILM:
THE COMEDY (Rick Alverson | USA | 96 min.)
Much like Five Easy Pieces or Mike Leigh’s Naked, director Rick Alverson and lead actor Tim Heidecker have masterfully created a captivating character study about an unlikable character. (Fans of Tim and Eric should delight in seeing a new level of skillful acting from the duo.) With Swanson (Heidecker) and friends cracking wise at everything life has, the film is funny as hell. But watching this crew romp indulgently—beer wrestling and drunkenly playing wiffleball, scathingly critiquing each other with straight faces and stoner eyes—it would all be so much mindless naval gazing if not for the sense of melancholy which imbues their actions. One has to wonder if they are having fun while they’re having fun.

All these hilariously inappropriate failings become a search for the essence of humanity, finding connection despite differences, and his search would be the same no matter his race, class or cultural background. He’s not looking to “better himself”—the film is smarter, edgier and more true than that platitude. He doesn’t know what he’s looking to do. But this biting nihilist comedy is worth seeing for the unique cultural critique of a man burning through life fast and raw, aching with the painful hope of the perpetually cynical.

READ MORE TICKETS TRAILER

June 22, 2012
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THE COMEDY at BAM Saturday night!!

“An entitled slacker chump who rides his beer gut like a chariot through the trust-funded wilds of Williamsburg, Swanson (comic Tim Heidecker, playing it straight) is a horseman of the Bro-pocalypse in writer-director Alverson’s corrosive statement on post-millennial America. The trench-mouthed character’s penchant for cheap antagonism and drunken invective can polarize audiences, just as the ambling, plotless structure asks them to regard this repugnant clod with heightened sensitivity—the better to calculate his damage. It’s bold stuff, a kind of latter-day evocation of the social antipathies of “Five Easy Pieces,” pushed to an absurdist brink. Laugh, cry or squirm? All of the above.” — Wall Street Journal

“This leaves Rick Alverson‘s The Comedy to approximate the sandpapery, stink bomb quality of Lewis’s aggravating art. A character study of an alcoholic, driftless 35-year-old of independent means who lives on a sailboat in the East River—an unreformable Arthur who amuses himself by hijacking menial jobs and periodically performing taboo-busting acte gratuitsThe Comedyfeatures a deadpan lead performance by Tim Heidecker of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, making a mockery of family, friendship, romance, faith, and, in various views of his lardy torso, his own body. This darkness, illustrating Nietzsche‘s “Wit is the epitaph of an emotion,” is more disquieting than Compliance‘s, as one has to contend with the allure of such reprehensibility, choking back laughter.” — The Village Voice

June 22, 2012
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‘Bro,’ opens in L.A.

… there’s the casually effective (Danny Trejo and Larry Fessenden along the criminal margins)…”

Check it!!