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.
watch the teaser below
and join us in the CineZone to see the film
From Fessenden: New to the Glass Eye community is writer/director Philip Aceto. Phil is in pre-production as a producer on an upcoming GEP project and we have invited him to screen his outstanding short OPEN HOUSE in the CineZone.
From Phil Aceto: I wanted to tell the story of an embittered white custodian who scapegoats a young African refugee in a fair and humane way. The style of the film places the viewer in close proximity to this marginalized and desperate character, creating an alienated perspective, one that’s been skewed by years of fear and trauma, to illustrate how one might misconstrue the “truth” of a situation and mistake an innocent person for “the enemy.”
TBT: Serving up some ice cold BTS pix from the set of Fessenden’s WENDIGO and THE LAST WINTER
and James Felix McKenney’s HYPOTHERMIA.
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.
With Emma Stone lined up to play a female version
of the monster in Poor Things, we rate a century’s worth of cinema inspired by Shelley’s novel
by Anne Billson
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.
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?”
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:
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.
The Films of Larry Fessenden: Vol 2
Wendigo & The Last Winter
The Films of Larry Fessenden: Vol 1
Habit & No Telling
The Innkeepers
Limited Edition Blu-Ray
The House Of The Devil
Collector Edition Blu-Ray
WENDIGO Figures
From Glass Eye Toyz
CRUMB CATCHER Blu-Ray
From Arrow Video
BLACKOUT BLU-RAY
From Dark Sky Selects
FOXHOLE BLU-RAY
From Vinegar Syndrome
9 Tales From Beyond The Pale
on Amazon!
THE LARRY FESSENDEN COLLECTION Blu-ray
on Amazon!
BENEATH Blu-ray & DVD
on Amazon!
