FANTASIA ANNOUNCES A BLISTERING FIRST WAVE OF TITLES FOR ITS 27th EDITION

LYCANTHROPIAN CHILLS FROM FROM LARRY FESSENDEN: BLACKOUT
At last, acclaimed horror auteur Larry Fessenden has fulfilled his long-held desire to make a werewolf film, rounding out the triptych begun with his vampire drama HABIT (1997) and FRANKENSTEIN variation DEPRAVED (2019). Fessenden, as always, makes BLACKOUT a very human story as well as a gripping horror show while weaving in his traditional focus on socio-political themes, from his long-held ecological concerns to very modern issues of suspicion and paranoia. Starring Alex Hurt, Addison Timlin, Marshall Bell, James LeGros, Barbara Crampton and Joe Swanberg. World Premiere.

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Date/Time
Date(s) – Tue. May. 9, 2023
7:00 pm BST – 10:00 pm BST

This talk will briefly discuss several horror sub-genres and their connection to anti-capitalist themes but will largely focus on two for in-depth discussion: the haunted house movie and the corporate horror film. Case studies used to explore haunted house films will include The Innkeepers (2011), The Selling (2011), A Ghost Waits (2020) and Sorry About the Demon (2022). Case studies used to explore corporate horror will include Bloodsucking Bastards (2015), The Belko Experiment (2016), Mayhem (2017), Office Uprising (2018), Corporate Animals (2019) and Keeping Company (2021).

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SATURDAY May 6, Ted Geoghegan’s BROOKLYN 45 unspools at the
The Chicago Critics Film Festival, Jeremy Holm in attendance. 

GEP Alumn Ti West and A24 brings us a first look at the final installment of the ‘X’ trilogy.
 Pictured here with Halsey, Mia Goth reprises her “X” role, now set in 1985 LA.

IndieWire has the low-down.

GEP pal James Felix McKenney (director of AUTOMATONS, SATAN HATES YOU, HYPOTHERMIA, producer of FOXHOLE and upcoming BLACKOUT) will have his booth ready for biz at the Maine Comic and Toy Con. Pay MonsterPants a visit and take a gander at all the Studio Midnight and Glass Eye Pix tees, toys, comics, art, VHS, DVD’s, Blu-Rays and more.

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Jim Mickle
(co-writer, director STAKE LAND)
Jeff Grace
(score THE ROOST, THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL, I SELL THE DEAD, etc etc)
Amy Seimetz
(actor BITTER FEAST)
Linda Moran
(associate producer STAKE LAND)

team up again to bring you Season 2
of the sensational Netflix Series SWEET TOOTH

premiering TODAY 4.27.23

BROOKLYN 45 brings home TWO Audience Awards at the PANIC FEST 2023 Award Showcase!

Fessenden wins BEST ACTOR in a Feature Film and
Ted Geoghegan awarded BEST DIRECTOR.

See the full list of the 2023 Audience Awards Winners
HERE

On Earth Day, we’re encouraged to think about conservation and the actions we can take to help stop or reverse the damage. In that spirit, we’ve put together a list of films to watch that dramatize what might happen should our efforts fail.

#14 THE LAST WINTER
This atmospheric thriller set at a drilling site in the Arctic National Wildlife refuge is a quintessential example of the “eco-horror” genre, in which atrocities against nature are avenged via terrifying attacks on humans by natural or supernatural forces. In The Last Winter, director Larry Fessenden (Wendigo) uses the backdrop of the snowy tundra nearly as effectively as John Carpenter did in The Thing, while establishing a quieter, more dreamlike mood. It’s not clear exactly what the crew of environmental scientists and oil workers, led by Ron Perlman as the hard-headed chief of the operation, have awakened beneath the surface of the thinning arctic ice (thanks to warmer-than-normal temperatures), but as they slowly lose their minds, and their lives, it’s clear that something is out there and it is very angry with us.

See whole list at AV Club