Dinoboy releases 4 song EP “Angel” featuring Fessenden on sax on track “Leave Me at Home”
Dinoboy is singer songwriter Dalton Salsbury who has made music with Jack Fessenden since 2013 with their release Stereotypical, which was followed by Anything I Says Goes, Lost My Mind and You Win in the End. Their album Holiday was released on Vinyl in 2018. Their music is featured in various Glass Eye Pix productions, including STRAY BULLETS, BENEATH and DEPRAVED.
And keep an ear out for Fessenden on sax on trax by Still Rusty, Just Desserts, Holiday, Unwanted Houseguest and forthcoming releases by The Wharton Tiers Ensemble and Graham Reznick…
Beneath is a low-budget indie with absolutely loathsome characters and atrocious dialogue, but it’s floating by on a cool concept. If you’re familiar and or a fan of “The Raft” segment from Creepshow 2, Beneath is essentially a feature-length version of that short horror gold; thus worth your time if you like a simple, dark premise drawn out.
The plot’s as simple as can be: A group of horrible, angsty teens who recently graduated high school gather on a rowboat and coast out on a lake, but soon find themselves trapped by a man-eating fish in the water that’s circling their boat.
From there, the characters fight amongst themselves as they’re forced to choose crew members as distractions to escape this creature.
Beneath has its many deep flaws, though one actually becomes a positive. There’s nobody to root for. The leads are all equally detestable. So why not cheer on the killer fish? A flick throughout which you’re forced to root for the monster has its value.
On another sellable note, the creature is a rubbery prop. While that might be corny, it’s a breath of fresh air from the onslaught of CGI sea monsters us aquatic horror lovers have been forced to endure over the years. It’s not the most menacing creature, but it’s a fishy monster actually in the water.
The cast of unknowns, for the most part, stink like the lake water that holds their fates. Their interpersonal conflicts aren’t overly deep. However, indie director Larry Fessenden adds a hint of pure evil as the annoying characters turn on one another out of selfishness and survival.
Beneath doesn’t break a single bit of ground. It won’t wow you in any sense. This little chiller does have a great simplicity to it, though, and a darkness that cynics can rally around. And who doesn’t enjoy in-fighting amongst arrogant teens who are at risk of losing their lives to a killer fish?
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From the description:Walkden Entertainment (aka Peter Walkden) had the honour and pleasure of chatting with Larry Fessenden who is a lead actor of the upcoming film Jakob’s Wife (2021). This film will be available to watch exclusively on Shudder streaming service from August 19th.
This Friday the 13th, celebrate Xmas in August with the World Premiere of GEP pal Sydney Clara Brafman’s short film CLAUSTROPHOBIA, at the 25th Fantasia Festival.
Claustrophobia stars Glass Eye’s Rigo Garay (SIZE UP, MISS MILLIE). Crew consists of SIZE UP alumns Matt Liquori and GEP intern Santiago Saba Salem.
TBT: 2015, the late, great Stuart Gordon in the studio directing his Tale From Beyond The Pale: H.P. Lovecraft’s THE HOUND, along with Barbara Crampton, Ezra Godden, Chris McKenna and Glenn McQuaid.
One of the highlights of the forthcoming Popcorn Frights Film Festival is Christian Nilsson‘s psychological thriller Dashcam, which will World Premiere virtually nationwide on August 16th (get tix here).
On its 20th anniversary, director Brad Anderson and co-writer Steve Gevedon discuss the making of their cult classic, its word-of-mouth legacy … and where it might all go from here.
SESSION 9 stars David Caruso, Stephen Gevedon, Paul Guilfoyle, Josh Lucas and featuring Fessenden as “Craig McManus”.
Fear 2000, a conference series dedicated to twenty-first century horror media convened by Craig Ian Mann and Chris Cooke and hosted by the Department of Media Arts and Communication at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. Their fifth conference, Fear 2000: Horror Unbound, will take place on 10-12 September 2021. TALES FROM BEYOND THE PALE joins the lineup, details below:
Riding the Scarewaves: A Celebration of Tales from Beyond the Pale with Larry Fessenden and Glenn McQuaid
Larry Fessenden is a writer, director, producer and actor – the founder of the fiercely independent production house Glass Eye Pix. Glenn McQuaid is the filmmaker behind festival favourite I Sell the Dead (2008). Together they are the Pale Men: the creative minds behind a series of macabre “radio plays for the digital age” titled Tales from Beyond the Pale. Since 2010, Tales has been offering one of the finest auditory horror experiences money can buy in digital and lavishly produced physical formats, and since 2019 has been available to listen to as a free podcast.
In addition to Fessenden and McQuaid, contributing writers to Tales have included Simon Barrett, Jeff Buhler, Clay McLeod Chapman, Stuart Gordon, Eric Red, JT Petty, Graham Reznick and April Snellings, while genre stalwarts such as Ana Asensio, AJ Bowen, Lauren Ashley Carter, Barbara Crampton, Nick Damici, Jeremy Gardner, Pat Healy, Ron Perlman, John Speredakos, Tony Todd and the late Angus Scrimm have all leant their voices to episodes.
We are delighted to welcome Fessenden and McQuaid to Fear 2000: Horror Unbound to celebrate Tales from Beyond the Pale. In a conversation moderated by conference co-convener Craig Ian Mann, they will discuss the origins of the series, its overarching themes, the art of inciting fear through sound alone and their dedication to keeping horror radio alive in the twenty-first century.
You can visit the Tales from Beyond the Pale website here, listen to the podcast here, and follow the Pale Men on Twitter.
This event will take place on Friday 10 September at 19:00 in Stream C
The complex relationship between Anne and Jakob anchors Jakob’s Wife
… It would be easy for the movie to paint Anne’s husband Jakob as an antagonist and root for her to kill him by the end. He ignores her, constantly interrupts her, and consistently belittles her throughout the first part of the film. But where Jakob’s Wife really thrives is how it treats this relationship after Anne has “turned” into a predator.
Obviously, I don’t want to spoil what happens, but it was fascinating to see Jakob actually try to save his wife from becoming a monster rather than just abandoning her altogether. The movie takes a unique approach to their relationship that grounds the story and adds to many of the comedic moments …
Jakob’s Wife Offers Convincing Proof That Horror Is the Ultimate Glow-Up
… Married to Pastor Jakob Fedder (Larry Fessenden, whose acting credits include You’re Next alongside Crampton and The Dead Don’t Die, and whose directing credits include The Last Winter and a segment in ABCs of Death 2), Anne’s played the role of a dutiful minister’s wife for 30 years, cooking, cleaning, sitting through her husband’s sermons, enduring his repulsive grooming habits, and holding her tongue every time he interrupts her or talks over her, which is often.
… Jakob’s Wife doesn’t take the easy way out with the Jakob character; he could have been just a closed-minded, misogynistic small-town minister type, and while there are some elements of that, he’s more a guy who’s just become so used to his comfortable routine that it doesn’t occur to him to ever want to change it. Fessenden is very good as this oblivious, mildly boorish (but not monstrous) man who’s stunned to realize that his wife’s long been deeply unhappy in their marriage.
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