GEP pal Beck Underwood will screen her latest spell
in the animation program 
Fri, Oct 1st, 4:00 PM @ Woodstock Community Center
GET TICKETS NOW!

from The WFF Catalogue

Synopsis: In a non-distinct period in time, at a table in a barn, masked figures commune over simple chores and games. These mysterious interactions serve to conjure a playful spirit. As night falls the spirit poses questions about the life that continues on without them.

Director’s Bio: Beck Underwood is a filmmaker based in the Hudson Valley and NYC. She conducts her experiments in stop motion animation in a variety of settings, embracing the planned and accidental with equal glee.

Film Website: www.beckunderwood.com

the short film SIZE UP
is the directorial debut of GEP Filmworker Rigo Garay

screens Sat, Oct 2nd, 6:45 PM
at theWoodstock Community Center. Also available online!
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from the WFF catalogue:

Synopsis: After his older brother Tone is violently murdered over a pair of sneakers, 11-year-old Noel finds himself having to choose between revenge or righteousness, throughout the course of a single night. Will Noel succumb to his surroundings or choose the right path?

Director’s Bio: Rigo Garay is a writer/actor/director from Long Island, NY. Since 2015, he’s been working at Glass Eye Pix, an indie film production company in NYC founded by horror auteur Larry Fessenden. With a close mentorship with Fessenden, Garay aspires to make films with a focus on lower middle class Latinx characters.

Film Website and Teaser

FOXHOLE unspools October 1 & 2 in theaters and on-line 
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From the Festival Catalogue:

… As our nation undergoes a current crisis of meaning and purpose,
Foxhole is a compelling example of how turmoil can bring out the humanity in us all.
Written, directed, edited, and scored by Jack Fessenden, it is an aspirational work of singular vision.
— Olivia Belluck

Film Website: https://www.foxholemovie.com

“The last segment that I want to talk about is the first segment, set in New York, “Fever” …
 is objectively and subjectively my favorite segment …
psychologically scary and just incredibly depressing …
It left me in tears and sets the perfect pace for the entirety of the film.”
—Horror Obsession 

“There are some that stand out as being more striking than the others,
but everyone really has brought their A-game. We begin in New York for Larry Fessenden’s Fever,
a mixture of spoken word narrative and disturbing images that sets the mood for what is to follow.”
—Hollywood News

“The opening segment, written, directed by, and starring cult indie legend Larry Fessenden
is also the most powerful. It opens with shots of a deserted New York –
something that would never be possible in other circumstances.
As he succumbs to fever, we’re treated to a stop-motion filming technique that’s really disorientating.
It concludes with a heartbreakingly poignant moment.”
—Starburst

By Jason Jenkins

phantom limb /ˈfan(t)əm’lim/ n. an often painful sensation of the presence of a limb that has been amputated.

Welcome to Phantom Limbs, a recurring feature which will take a look at intended yet unproduced horror sequels and remakes – extensions to genre films we love, appendages to horror franchises that we adore – that were sadly lopped off before making it beyond the planning stages. Here, we will be chatting with the creators of these unmade extremities to gain their unique insight into these follow-ups that never were, with the discussions standing as hopefully illuminating but undoubtedly painful reminders of what might have been.

With this entry, we’ll be paying a visit to The Orphanage, the intended remake of the 2007Guillermo del Toro-produced, J.A. Bayona-directed supernatural chiller El Orfanato. To have been produced by del Toro and helmed by maverick indie filmmaker Larry Fessenden (Habit, Wendigo), The Orphanage would have seen the original film’s tale transported to the US and released by New Line Cinema, though the movie sadly never came to pass. Discussing this project is Mr. Fessenden, who details how he became involved, the process of penning the script alongside del Toro, why it didn’t happen, and whether it may yet make it to screens someday.

read whole article at Bloody-Disgusting

The Nathan Crooker produced
Covid-lockdown anthology Film ISOLATION
featuring Fessenden’s short film FEVER,
premiers in London’s Fright Fest 27 August

From the FrightFest catalogue:

2015, Fessenden and Fessenden on the set of
WE ARE STILL HERE.

Joe Maggio wraps on the untitled sequel to his seminal film, VIRGIL BLISS.

Maggio is  a long-time GEP collaborator
(BITTER FEAST, THE LAST RITES OF JOE MAY, TALES FROM BEYOND THE PALE) 
and a fierce proponent of DIY filmmaking through his production shingle
Incidental Films

Glass Eye Pix is proud to partner with Incidental Films on this production.

Says Fessenden: “I love that Joe is reviving this collaboration with his original actor, Clint Jordan. Movies that deal with the passage of time like 28 Up and Boyhood have such a profound place in the cinematic canon. I was excited to be part of Maggio revisiting a character he had created  over 20 years ago. And that’s only the stuff I’m allowed to talk about on this project.”

UNTIL DAWN, penned by Graham Reznick (I CAN SEE YOU)
and Fessenden and developed by Supermassive Games
was released 6 years ago today! 

Photo provided by Graham Reznick