Fessenden and son Jack Fessenden release
9-song album under the band name Still Rusty entitled MAD 4EVER.

Recorded in a barn in upstate New York in the last week of January, with Fessenden Sr. on sax and vocals and Fessenden Jr. on drums, bass, guitar, keyboards and tamborine, Mad 4Ever is a hand-hewn hodgepodge of ragged pop tunes with a raging and melancholic hue as befits the times.

Fessenden has recorded with the band Just Desserts since the late 70s and penned a number of songs over the years. Still, he’s pretty rusty. He has also played sax for various projects including The Wharton Tiers Ensemble, Unwanted Houseguest and Holiday.

Jack Fessenden has recorded with the band The Strangers since he was 13 years old and they have released 4 albums as well as a record under the name Holiday. Jack has also recorded with Dino-Boy and Unwanted Houseguest.

Mad 4Ever is now streaming on Bandcamp and will be available as a limited release CD.

Keep an eye out for a music video.

Indie horror auteur Chad Crawford Kinkle follows up his backwoods freakfest JUG FACE (starring Glass Eye faves Lauren Ashley Carter, Sean Young and Fessenden) with the startling and twisted DEMENTER, featuring Fessenden and Kinkle regular Katie Groshong along with a cast of non-actors including Kinkle’s own sister with Down’s Syndrome in a tale of aspiration and damnation. Outsider Cinema at its most challenging.

From Rue-Morgue:

The Only Thing I Love More Than You Is Ranch Dressing (2019)
Length: 1 minute Director: Sydney Clara Brafman Starring: Madison McGhee, James Soller

“It’s impressive that Brafman tells an entire story in a matter of seconds
… a fun bit of horror that packs a bite”

Where you can find it: Streaming on Alter’s YouTube beginning March 12. 

Read Review HERE

From Dread Central: Ti West has teamed with A24 for a new creeper called X with Mia Goth,
Kid Cudi, and Brittany Snow leading the cast. West wrote the script and is directing the project,
whose details are being kept in the dark but is said to be about the making of an adult film.

Read announcement here

OPEN HOUSE: writer/director Philip Aceto. (2018, 17 minutes)
cinematography: Zach Zamboni
featuring Michael Rose, Carey Van Driest, and Roger Yawson

watch the teaser below
and join us in the CineZone to see the film

Watch OPEN HOUSE in The CineZone.

Our pals over at Yellow Veil will represent worldwide sales for The Spine of Night, an ultra-violent, hand-rotoscoped epic fantasy inspired by the cult classic works of animators Ralph Bakshi and Frank Franzetta. The film is set in a fantasy land ripe with magic and intrigue where a dark force is unleashed sending mankind into an age of ruin. It falls on heroes from different eras and cultures to fight back, and stars Richard E. Grant, Lucy Lawless, Patton Oswalt, Betty Gabriel, Joe Manganiello, Abby Savage, Rob McClure and Fessenden.

Screen Anarchy has the skinny on the SXSW Midnighter. 

The 20 Best Frankenstein Films Ranked!

The indie horror honcho Larry Fessenden’s take on the Frankenstein story begins with an amnesiac stabbing victim waking up in a makeshift Brooklyn lab with a stitched-together body. The PTSD-afflicted ex-military medic who revived him tries to educate his creation in all things beautiful, but his partner has less elevated plans for the creature. Good characters, lo-fi psychedelia, sadness, doom.

read full list at The Guardian

Glass Eye alumn Eric Pennycoff wraps production on his sophomore film THE LEECH.
Starring GEP pals Graham Skipper (ALMOST HUMAN, THE MIND’S EYE), Jeremy Gardner (LIKE ME, PSYCHOPATHS), Taylor Zaudtke (SADISTIC INTENTIONS, THE EGG AND THE HATCHET)
and GEP filmworker Rigo Garay (SIZE UP, MISS MILLIE).

From Pennycoff: “The film is about how far one man is willing to go in order to save the lives of complete strangers, even if it means losing himself in the process. Can a man of God truly turn the other cheek? Or do even the holiest of leaders have their breaking point?”

Screen Anarchy has the scoop!

Reichardt, whose recent film FIRST COW has been sited on several “best film of 2020” lists, is presented with the Robby Muller Award and speaks with Ann-Marie Corvin of Variety:

from Variety:

‘First Cow’ Director Kelly Reichardt on the ‘Daily Process of Making Art’

Accepting the Robby Muller award online this week, ahead of a talk at the International Film Festival Rotterdam to celebrate her work, Kelly Reichardt appeared delighted with its form.

In its second year, the award has taken the guise of an enlarged Polaroid print featuring a solitary tree, which was taken by Muller on a winter’s day in Munich during the eighties.

Both Muller and the award’s recipient have a talent for capturing landscapes and Reichardt said that she studied the late cinematographer’s work closely early in her career to “try and figure out the connection between what you dream of and what you can actually capture.”

She recalls making her first film, “River of Grass” in the early nineties, which focused on her native Miami landscapes, as she honed her own distinct voice and vision.

“I knew I needed to school myself in lenses after that film because every set up of that camera informed me of what I didn’t know, and what I needed to figure out,” she told IFFR’s online Big Talk audience.

Reichardt added that she also learned to edit during this feature, under the tutelage of jack-of-all trades filmmaker Larry Fessenden.

This debut marked the start of many reoccurring themes in her work including corporations’ lasting impact on landscapes, society and individuals.

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