Episode #30 IS THIS SEAT TAKEN?

Directed by Larry Fessenden,
part of FEAR ITSELF season 1.

Starring Doug Jones, Molly Hagan and John Pyper-Ferguson.

“as nasty as anything seen on this series.”
– Fangoria

“painfully tense … expertly paced …
the feeling of dread rarely lets up”
– AV Club

“the scariest and creepiest episode of FEAR ITSELF of the season.
Helped by a simply amazing score.”
– IFMAGAZINE

Available on iTunes

GEP would like to congratulate Glass Eye intern Matthew Yturralde on winning the SVA 2020 Alumni Scholarship Award! Yturralde shares a few words about his horror short DEVIL FISH.

From the School Of Visual Arts: Over the next few weeks, SVA will be highlighting some of the many outstanding projects from the 2020 Alumni Scholarship Award winners. Today’s featured thesis project is by BFA Film student Matthew Yturralde, also a veteran, a member of SVA’s Veterans Coalition Of Arts and co-founder of the SVA Horror Society. Yturralde’s short film, Devil Fish, is about a man named Topher, who takes on the job of pet-sitting for a friend—but there’s more to this tale than meets the eye.

Check out the full interview HERE

Directed by Rick Alverson

Starring: Tim Heidecker, James Murphy
and Eric Wareheim.

Its audience may be self-selective in the extreme, but few films
have better articulated the limits of irony as a force field against the world.
– A.V. CLUB

It’s a meaty film, filled with ideas unobscured by any generic narrative string,
a move that shows not only the confidence of the director but his respect of the audience.
This is one that’ll have people talking.
– INDIEWIRE

Alverson just wants people to care, even if that subsequent emotion
takes on the form of hate, and as such, “The Comedy” has my begrudging respect.
– Film.Com

Available on iTunes 

Check out GEP pal Heather Woodbury’s (HOLLOW VENUS, HABIT) EPIC series
AS THE GLOBE WARMS

We’re very worried about Matt!! He doesn’t look quite right!

Tales alumni Jeff Buhler (writer, Pet Semetary, Midnight Meat Train, The Grudge) talks about his LIVE Tale from Season 2, “Stranger” Now available on TALES FROM BEYOND THE PALE The Podcast.

Camping has been a part of my life since I was a little kid. This story — Stranger — basically came out of the tradition of sitting around the fire and coming up with the most insane story you could muster. In addition to being out in the wilderness, one of my great fears is alien abduction. Since the Barney and Betty Hill movie or the Christopher Walken thing that Whitley Strieber wrote I have been addicted to these tales. And of course there is Fire in the Sky, which in my mind was one of the first real, effective abduction horror movies in the sense that the visualization of the ship in the third act really disturbed me. We obviously tried to channel some of that in STRANGER.

Working with live actors and live sound FX was new to me coming off This Oracle Moon. In my first “Tale”, I had the luxury of repeated takes and editing performances and adding all kinds of sound design. But when you’re live, there’s something different. Something compelling about the immediacy of the experience. Of course, I wish we had a week to block, rehearse and develop the story but — hey— this is horror and sometimes the thing that sits at the heart of the story is all you need.

Thanks to Larry and Glenn for releasing these Tales. I’ve been loving them myself. Hope everyone enjoys STRANGER.

Episode #29 STRANGER