February 8, 2021
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Chad Crawford Kinkle’s DEMENTER drops March 2 from Dark Star Pictures
From the director of JUG FACE comes a new nightmare featuring Fessenden
“bizarre, discomfiting
idiosyncratic, provocative, nimble”
—Rue Morgue
From Rue Morgue’s Review
“It’s a chilling journey—simultaneously more grounded in reality than JUG FACE and far, far more bizarre and discomfiting when it slips into the darkness. (It’s probably worth noting for the unfamiliar that both Groshong and Fessenden, who give extraordinarily naturalistic performances here, were in JUG FACE as well.) These narrative and aesthetic schisms are powerful and effective, keeping viewers off kilter in a way that is uncomfortable, yes, but also strangely enlightening.
“DEMENTER establishes beyond the shadow of a doubt that JUG FACE was no fluke: Kinkle is an idiosyncratic, provocative, nimble filmmaker who eschews simple answers, and with every frame might as well be whispering in your ear: The only way out is through…”
Dark Star Pictures gave us the word that they’ve picked up DEMENTER, from JUG FACE writer/director Chad Crawford Kinkle, and have set a March 2 release on digital platforms. The movie stars Katie Groshong, Stephanie Kinkle, Brandy Edmiston, Eller Hall, Scott Hodges and indie fright auteur Larry Fessenden; the synopsis: “The film follows Katie [Groshong], a young woman who flees a backwoods cult and takes a job at a care center for special needs adults in her determination to do some good with her life. But despite her best intentions, Katie can’t escape the signs that ‘the devils’ are coming for Stephanie, a woman with Down syndrome she cares for (the filmmaker’s real-life sister Stephanie Kinkle), who keeps getting sicker despite Katie’s rituals to ward off evil spirits.”
February 5, 2021
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Now In The CINEZONE: COLE by David Call
COLE: writer/director David Call. (2018, 10 minutes)
featuring David Call, Ana Kayne, Will Janowitz
RED 2K cinematography: Zach Kuperstein
watch the teaser below
and join us in the CineZone to see the film
From Fessenden: When I was casting DEPRAVED, my producer Chadd Harbold put me in touch with actor David Call to discuss the role of Henry, a modern Dr. Frankenstein who is suffering from PTSD after several tours as a field surgeon in Iraq. Call was very tuned in to these themes, as his brother is in the military. He then shared with me a short film he had made and it remarkably also spoke of brain trauma, which was another theme in DEPRAVED. I am excited to present this fine film here. COLE was also the first time I saw Ana Kayne, who I went on to cast in DEPRAVED as well.
From David Call: I chose this story because I wanted to make something simple and direct that also held special meaning for me. As someone with close family and friends currently serving in the armed forces, these are issues I am very familiar with and care deeply about. My brother is an active duty combat veteran and this script came about after visiting him on post and talking with him and some other soldiers and vets. We discussed the difficulties they faced reentering the civilian world and how the all too common depiction of vets in film and television as unstable & psychologically troubled or as unimpeachable heroes had led a widening of the gulf between them and their civilian counterparts, making it increasingly difficult for them to find jobs and re-integrate into American society. This film is my attempt to tell their story.
February 2, 2021
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Screenrant: “Everything we know so far about JAKOB’S WIFE”
Jakob’s Wife stars horror icon Barbara Crampton as Anne Fedder. Crampton is known for her roles in Stuart Gordon’s numerous Lovecraftian horror flicks such as Re-Animator and Castle Freak. Crampton has also dappled in the slasher sub-genre with Chopping Mall. In 2021, she is returning to her Lovecraftian roots in the upcoming release, Sacrifice. Alongside Crampton, Larry Fessenden (Southbound) stars as her husband Jakob Fedder. The movie also features Mark Kelly (Fear the Walking Dead), Bonnie Aarons (The Nun), and Phil Brooks (Girl On The Third Floor)…
January 29, 2021
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Blu-ray Bonanza: GEP pal Douglas Buck and other short-format treats available now!
Beef up your physical media collection!
A celebration of short-form HORROR is hitting the shelves!
Long-time GEP pal Douglas Buck presents his shocking and artful trilogy of domestic horror with
FAMILY PORTRAITS (Featuring Fessenden)
Douglas Buck also directs THE ACCIDENT as part of the horror anthology THEATRE BIZARRE
And celebrate the history of Anthology horror with TALES OF THE UNCANNY,
featuring Buck, Fessenden, Jenn Wexler
as well as Eli Roth, Joe Dante, Mick Garris, Ernest Dickerson, Kim Newman,
Tom Savini, Richard Stanley, Roger Corman and many other luminaries!
January 26, 2021
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Order Your Valentine’s Day Countdown Calendar TODAY!!!
Turn your Quarantine into Amourantine!
That’s right folks, count the days to Valentine’s Day with this saucy Advent Calendar
featuring 14 naughty peekaboo poses!
Count down from February First to Valentine’s Day! Order by Jan 28 to get your Calendar on time!
(and if it’s late you might have to try two poses a day to catch up!)
January 22, 2021
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Now in the CineZone: MATCH FLICK by Ilya Chaiken
Match Flick
(1996 Director Ilya Chaiken, 32 mins)
starring Bridget Evans & Jim Abrasion
16 mm cinematography by Gordon Chou
(1996 Director Ilya Chaiken, 32 mins)
starring Bridget Evans & Jim Abrasion
16 mm cinematography by Gordon Chou
A classic Girl meets Boy meets French New Wave meets Murnau story, with lots of incidental vomit.
NOTES
From Fessenden: Ilya Chaiken is one of my Glass Eye Pix favorite directors. She cast me opposite Eleanor Hutchins in MARGARITA HAPPY HOUR a film produced by Glass Eye Comrades Michael Ellenbogen (Glass Eye Consigliere 1991-1998) and Susan Leber (producer, THE ROOST). Ilya also directed LIBERTY KID for GEP and went on to direct web series THE UNLOVEABLES starring Hutchins and Kevin Corrigan and featuring Fessenden. Chaiken is currently working on a doc about the iconic band The Lunachicks.
The MATCH FLICK backstory from Chaiken – It was 1995, I had a tiny grant to make a film, but I had writer’s block and was running out of time before my baby was born. But sticking my pal Bridget in this black pixie wig was all the Godardian inspiration I needed. So at 8 months pregnant with a handful of storyboards, I ran around with DP Gordon Chou, Bridget and Jim, and shot 16mm MOS. Then I borrowed a friend’s Steenbeck to edit the film. By the time I finished editing, my kid was a year old, digital filmmaking had begun to emerge, and I couldn’t get my friend to take the Steenbeck back out of my apartment. Bridget and Jim, by the way, unlike their tortured characters, are still a happy couple.
January 20, 2021
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FOXHOLE is finished Inauguration Day 2021
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Jack Fessenden completes post production
on his second feature film FOXHOLE
Inauguration Day, January 20, 2021
A Glass Eye Pix and Nous Entertainment Production
Our thanks to all the post production artisans who have worked this last year
Matt Rocker, Abby Savage, Tom Efinger, Colin Stackpole,
James Siewert, Eugene Lehnert, Chris Ramey
Alex Laviola, Jeff Seelye et al
