From FANGORIA:

Video game developer Supermassive Games wasn’t a well-known name when it first dabbled in horror during the mid-2010s. When it announced Until Dawn, an interactive survival-horror title heavily inspired by slasher classics and written by horror film notables Graham Reznick and Larry Fessenden, it was a bit of a gamble – a somewhat undiscovered studio breaking into a genre with an original title among peers like Resident Evil and Silent Hill is no easy feat. Despite this, Until Dawn’s approach as essentially an interactive slasher movie landed with players – quickly becoming a cult classic in the horror gaming community since its 2015 release – and in the process, it has reflected the fact that genre fans have been itching for more slasher action in general.

Read article by Brandon Trush at FANGORIA.COM

Fessenden continues long-time collaboration with Kelly Reichardt with supporting role in SHOWING UP, produced by A24, now shooting.

Fessenden has worked with Reichardt in various capacities since 1993 as actor (RIVER OF GRASS, WENDY AND LUCY), editor (RIVER OF GRASS), producer (RIVER OF GRASS, WENDY AND LUCY) Executive producer (CERTAIN WOMAN, NIGHT MOVES) videographer (NIGHT MOVES) and director (HABIT).

SHOWING UP stars Michelle Williams and features GEP pal James Le Gros in his third outing with Reichardt.

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“The performances have a lovely informality,
with indie film mainstay Larry Fessenden showing up as a sympathetic McDonald’s colleague
and Luqmaan-Harris nicely capturing the deflating depression of struggling with poverty,
and being entirely “too good” for that.

Kitzer makes good use of a modest selection of locations,
streets, apartments, subway platforms and riverside scenes.
The spare plot and limited locations suits the indie nature of it all…

Like Red Hook itself, “Good Funk” is worth a look,
even if you know you’ll need to move on
to find something and some place with more excitement in it.”

— Roger Moore, MOVIE NATION

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GEP pal Jeff Grace sits with Daniel Schweiger from The Film Music Institute to chat
about the music of the Netflix series SWEET TOOTH, directed by Jim Mickle. 

From FMI: With his talent for often evoking homespun, rustic darkness from the terrifyingly intimate residences of “The House of the Devil” to “The Innkeepers,” the twisted families of “Cold in July” and “We Are What We Are,” an unforgiving western landscape in “Meek’s Cutoff” and the beast-prowling environs of “The Roost” and “The Last Winter,” composer Jeff Grace has been building an especially chilling and unforgiving repertoire. Beginning his career assisting Howard Shore on his “Rings” trilogy and “Gangs of New York,” the NYC-based Grace would find a gifted filmmaker to further lead him into the darkness with Jim Mickle. First teaming for the vampire apocalypse of 2010’s “Stake Land,” Grace’s evocative, western-tinged score evoked both a future’s impossible horror as well as the emotional bond between master killer and a newfound son of sorts. 

Read Full Interview HERE