ALEX BREAUX best Supporting actor.
GERNER AND SPEARS best makeup effects.
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January 7, 2020
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DEPRAVED Nominated for TWO Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
January 3, 2020
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DEPRAVED coming to DVD & Blu-ray! 7 January 2020
Loaded with over two hours of extras and a souvenir booklet,
this deluxe edition from Shout Factory is a MUST-HAVE
for fans of Frankenstein, Fessenden and Filosophical horror.
ONE OF THE BEST MOVIES OF THE YEAR #19
“Fessenden’s trademark style of tragic horror shines through.
It’s also his angriest film to date – a natural response from a filmmaker
so concerned with societal ethics who has watched them devolve so quickly.
— Joel Wicklund, Chicago Now
ONE OF THE BEST HORROR FILMS OF THE DECADE
“The film is a towering work of art and hands down my
favourite version of this story ever produced.”
— Tim Burr, BifBoomPop
ONE OF THE 10 BEST HORROR FILMS OF THE YEAR
— Torri Danielle, Pophorror
ONE OF THE TOP 13 HORROR MOVIES OF 2019
“While ’90s American cinema tends to play up the legacies of auteur superpowers like
Tarantino and PTA, Larry Fessenden deserves just as much appreciation …
At once an indictment of technology and the quest to control the natural order,
“Depraved” makes the case that Fessenden should really make movies more often,
because these troubled times benefit from his spooky voice.”
— Eric Kohn, Indiewire
ONE OF THE 10 BEST INDIE HORROR FILMS OF THE YEAR
“a bat shit insane take on the story as well, so it breathes new life into an old classic.
Kudos to director and creator Larry Fessenden for pulling off an incredible feat here.”
—Jonas Barnes, brokeassstuart.com
ONE OF THE TOP 19 HORROR MOVIES OF 2019
“This may be Fessesnden’s best film to date and also includes great makeup FX
by Brian Spears and Peter Gerner who are up for a Fangoria Chainsaw Award for their work. Bravo.
—Larry Dwyer, Horror News Network
ONE OF THE BEST HORROR FILMS OF THE YEAR
“The best modern Frankenstein adaptation by the master of
independent New York horror, Larry Fessenden.”
—Dr Zais, Geeks of Doom
ONE OF THE 10 BEST HORROR FILMS OF 2019 YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED
“a refreshing twist to a familiar story,
with surprising new depth and poignancy.”
—Megan Navarro, Bloody-Disgusting
DEPRAVED score by Will Bates Out Dec 10 Pre-Order now!
January 2, 2020
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The Pale Men talk to horror maestro ERIC RED about “LITTLE NASTIES”
Glenn McQuaid and Larry Fessenden had a few questions for Horror vet ERIC RED on the eve of the launch of his TALE FROM BEYOND THE PALE “Little Nasties” on the TALES Podcast.
pictured: Eric Red presides over cast during the recording of his TALE.
Ella June Conroy, Jill Zarin, Fessenden, Jack Ketchum
PALE MEN: Prior to working on Little Nasties, What was your experience of audio drama?
ERIC RED: Zero. However, my grandfather used to tell me about the suspense radio shows he listened to as a child, like Lights Out, and how they fired his imagination, so through him I saw what the medium could do. That’s why I though it was such a brilliant idea for Larry and Glenn to bring back the format for our modern age in Tales From Beyond The Pale.
PM: I notice a fine ear for sound design and music in your film work, Body Parts has some really satisfying sound design and foley in the mix, did it feel like a natural step to let go of visuals and concentrate solely on audio?
PM: I notice a fine ear for sound design and music in your film work, Body Parts has some really satisfying sound design and foley in the mix, did it feel like a natural step to let go of visuals and concentrate solely on audio?
ER: Thanks. I’ve always been attentive of the storytelling use of sound in my films. It’s part of any filmmaker’s toolbox. Sound subliminally enhances the visuals of a movie in powerful ways that can be much more effective than music. I often write sound effects in my screenplays and play certain scenes that way for that reason.
PM: Writing the script for Little Nasties was an interesting challenge because stylistically it had to be dialogue down one side of the page and sounds effects down the other—that’s it! Those were the elements available to work with to tell the story.
ER: In a movie, the director gives the audience the pictures and everybody basically sees the same film. But a radio show relies exclusively on dialogue and sound effects to create pictures for the listener, who bring his or her own personal mental images to the audio play. This way, the audience uses their imagination and actively interfaces with the tale, rather than just sitting back and letting the story wash over them like they do in a movie. That was what was exciting about the project for me. A lot of credit goes to Glenn McQuaid who made a big contribution to the show actually creating and executing the sound design in the script.
PM: As well as film, you’ve now got seven (I believe) novels under your belt and there’s the comic book work too, do you have a preferred medium you like to work in or do you enjoy the parameters of each format?
ER: I’m a storyteller. The different story delivery systems like movies, books, comics and radio shows each have their own opportunities for a storyteller. But the older I get, the more fun it is to let the audience use their imagination where it is not how you show it, it’s how you don’t show it.
PM: Jill Zarin is an absolute hoot in Little Nasties and was great fun to work with in the studio, how did you come to know and work with her?
PM: Jill Zarin is an absolute hoot in Little Nasties and was great fun to work with in the studio, how did you come to know and work with her?
ER: I Met Jill the same year we did the radio show, when she was cast in a small film I directed and we became friends. She comes out of reality TV starring on TV’s Real Housewives of New York, so Jill knew how to improvise and think on her feet on camera; she was used to being spontaneous as a performer because of the requirements of reality TV, but unlike many of the people who star in those shows, Jill is a substantial person and a good human being. She’s a natural actress with a strong, warm, funny, iconic New York personality and vocal delivery. Because the voice was everything in the radio show, I immediately thought of her for the stage mother having just worked with her and knowing what she could do. We all loved what Jill brought to the part, carrying the show with her energetic down-to-earth personality.
PM: And finally, we love that you use Jack Ketchum in your piece. How did you come to know him?
PM: And finally, we love that you use Jack Ketchum in your piece. How did you come to know him?
ER: Dallas (Jack Ketchum was his author pseudonym) was probably my oldest friend, dating back in the late 70s when we met in Greece. We were both New Yorkers then, when he was just becoming a novelist and I was becoming a screenwriter and director. Dallas was one of my favorite people, and I thought it would be fun for him to play the sinister beauty contest official; Dallas being Dallas, he tackled the transgressive role fearlessly and didn’t hold back. He sadly passed a few years ago, and I was grateful we had the fun experience of this show as a capper to our relationship.
One of my favorite things about Little Nasties was the unusual ensemble of people who were involved. We had a TV New York Housewife playing alongside a legendary horror author in a radio show produced by two brilliant independent filmmakers that I got to write and direct. A unique, diverse, talented group of people became ingredients in a special cocktail that, to my creative taste buds, is absolutely delicious.
Little Nasties was a fairly big, complicated little radio show production that included a large cast of children, so big props to Larry Fessenden for pulling it all together. I’m still amazed at all we got done.
January 1, 2020
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TALES FROM BEYOND THE PALE The Podcast Episode 13: “Little Nasties”
Episode 13: Little Nasties
Things are not quite as they seem when Heather Knox and her daughter, Bethany,
arrive at a child beauty pageant, after dark…
Written and directed by Eric Red.
Featuring Jill Zarin, Jack Ketchum, Ella June Conroy, Sophia Anne Caruso, Hanna Cheek,
Accalia Quintana, Helen Herbert, Sera Bullis, Demi Mills, John Speredakos, Chris Skotchdopole
Poster by Graham Humphreys.
for more Tales, Box Sets and Swag, visit
www.talesfrombeyondthepale.com
December 25, 2019
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TALES FROM BEYOND THE PALE The Podcast Episode 12: “Guttermouth”
Episode 12: Guttermouth
Martin hears strange voices coming from the drain.
Passion, obsession and madness collide when he investigates..
Written and directed by Jeff Buhler.
Featuring Joshua Leonard, Heather Goldenhersh, Molly Bryant, Mark Kelley, Rocco Buhler
Poster by Graham Humphreys.
for more Tales, Box Sets and Swag, visit
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December 20, 2019
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Glass Eye Pix Holiday Greeting 2019
Animated Holiday Card by Beck Underwood.
Binge watch Creepy Christmas Film Fest 2008 & 2018.
50 artisanal Seasonal shorts to make you merry and cozy AF.
See more of Crafty and his sidekick in the December 9th, 2018 short.
Happy Holidays from Glass Eye Pix!
December 19, 2019
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McQuaid & Fessenden talk “Natural Selection” starring Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd
A GLASS EYE PIX EXCLUSIVE:
Episode 11 of TALES FROM BEYOND THE PALE The Podcast is written and directed by Larry Fessenden and stars Dominc Monaghan and Billy Boyd, know the world over as Merry and Pippin from Peter Jackson’s LORD OF THE RINGS Trilogy. Monaghan went on to icon status as Charlie in JJ Abram’s LOST and is featured this week’s STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER, also by Abrams. Monaghan also happens to be Fessenden’s co-star in Glenn McQuaid’s Glass Eye Pix production, I SELL THE DEAD. McQuaid and Fessenden decided to have a chat about Fessenden’s audio drama “Natural Selection” in which a naturalist and his cameraman get into a heap of trouble while exploring a remote Galapagos Island. Glenn gave Larry a ring from across the pond and here is their conversation:
GLENN McQUAID: “Natural Selection”, if I remember correctly, was inspired by a trip to The Galápagos Islands, did the ideas flow while in the environment or in retrospect?
LARRY FESSENDEN: I wrote the tale some years after I had been in the Galapagos Islands. But that trip was very vivid to me. And I was thinking about the Fukushima Nuclear disaster (March 2011) and the anxiety a lot of people had that the Pacific Ocean currents would bring nuclear waste across the ocean. There is of course a tradition of making monsters out of nuclear disaster (GODZILLA, anyone?), so I was riffing on those tropes.
GM: And pollution in general. PROPHESY comes to mind And Have you see THE HOST by Bong Joon-ho? It has the most profound opening where an American scientist orders his assistant to empty bottles of formaldehyde into the Han River. It’s surreal in its cause-and-effect simplicity.
LF: Of course, love both those flicks! Nature revenge movies, a class all their own.
GM: I completely forgot that Natural Selection adheres to the found-footage format, what inspired you to take a stab at that style for an audio drama?
LF: I always find it funny when you see a character in a remote situation on these reality TV shows and they seem to be alone and suffering but I say, what about the cameraman? So I wanted to bring that into the story. And yes, try doing a “found-footage” piece for radio.
The piece came together very organically. I had been haunted by my trip to the Galapagos for some time, the sounds as well as the images; it was certainly a great setting for the sort of immersive audio tales we are interested in creating. You and I have both been intrigued by the sort of nature audio that is out there, sound of the seashore or birds that play for an hour…
GM: Dan Gibson‘s series of SOLITUDES records have always inspired me and I have had a mind to make a serious of nature records myself but each one should have a hidden little spot of peculiarity to them, a drowning or a rift in the space time fabric.
LF: My favorite of my Tales are the ones where I have collected my own ambiences. For “The Hole Digger” I got my sound from Cape Cod where the story takes place. There’s a drowning in that one!
GM: I have fond memories of Dom between takes on I SELL THE DEAD, rummaging through bushes and investigating the local insect life of the grave yards we shot in, and since then he went on to have his own nature show, he seems like the perfect lead for Natural Selection, was he on your mind when writing? What was his response to the material.
LF: Dom has a TV show called WILD THINGS in which he travels to exotic locations and interacts with unusual creatures and tries to excite people about the natural wonders all around us. I knew that my story would make sense to him. While I don’t claim to be an adventurous sort, I have a deep simpatico with nature and other creatures and Dom’s attitude is a lovely and profound expression of my own sense of place in this world. Difference is, he actually goes out there…
The tale has another more existential aspect to it, and I try to contemplate the character Ross confronting death, and how he doesn’t fight it, he goes with the flow of his terrible fate without judgement and that eases his passage. But he leaves his cameraman behind to face a similar fate without the same perspective, a worse end for him.
GM: Ross is deeply enamored and respectful of the environment but through celebrating it he ends up in a bit of a bind, I’m reminded of Hoffman in THE LAST WINTER, even the good guys will suffer the consequences of mankind’s greed and willful ignorance, perhaps more so than most as they tried to do something about it. Is it fair to say this existential tragedy is made more bearable with the addition of monsters?
LF: I always find that monsters sweeten the pot! The story here seems to be that the Ross character has too much comfort in his own relationship with nature and gets too close to the creature and it snaps at him, causing his demise. Doesn’t take away from the truth of Ross’s world view, but fate has its own plans. My stories are not about winning, but how to accept defeat. That is the place where we can all have control.
GM: So fun to have Billy Boyd along side Dom again, they have such wonderful chemistry, how was it having them back together during the production?
LF: The whole production was so appealing, having Billy and Dom together again, they were very endearing to be with. It was Dom’s idea to give Billy a call and I couldn’t have been more happy. I had been very immersed in the LORD OF THE RINGS movies when they came out and again as my kid grew up watching them. I love my other actors as well: Pat Healy from THE INNKEEPERS and James Ransone from IN A VALLEY OF VIOLENCE and more recently SINISTER and IT 2. And my pal Darroch Greer from early Glass Eye projects. It was a very congenial recording session.
But here is the thing about “Natural Selection” that is truly freaky: On Dom’s show he was in fact bitten by a giant lizard. His grace on camera after the violent shock is very telling of Dom’s philosophy and poise. To this day I don’t know which came first, my script or this strange incident. I don’t recall ever discussing it with him when we recorded the show.
December 19, 2019
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TALES FROM BEYOND THE PALE The Podcast Episode 11 “Natural Selection”
Episode 11: Natural Selection
On the path to find a new species in the storied Galapogos Islands,
a TV Naturalist and his cameraman encounter terrors in the night.
Written and directed by Larry Fessenden.
Featuring Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd, James Ransone, Pat Healy, Darroch Greer
Poster by Graham Humphreys.
for more Tales, Box Sets and Swag, visit
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December 18, 2019
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Villain Media: THE RANGER Best of 2019 list
From Villain Media: Director Jenn Wexler has such a sleek visual style that dominates the punk-infused slasher. Amanda Grace Benitez beams with personality and radiates lively energy as the light-hearted Amber. Chloë Levine captures Chelsea’s inner torment and her defiant attitude. Make sure you see it on Shudder.
