2015, Joe Begos and Fessenden on the set of THE MIND’S EYE.
Be sure to catch the world premiere of Begos’ bloodbath BLISS
at the Tribeca Film Festival.
April 25, 2019
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TBT: Joe Begos and Fessenden
April 25, 2019
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Bloody Disgusting: THE RANGER Gets a New Trailer Ahead of Next Month’s Shudder Premiere
Director Jenn Wexler‘s punk slasher The Ranger proved to be a hit on the festival circuit, and it’s next headed to Shudder‘s streaming service next month, on Thursday, May 9th!
Check out Shudder’s new trailer below, while you wait!
In the film:
“When Chelsea and her friends get in trouble with the cops, they flee the city and go on the run. Fueled by a hallucinogenic drug called Echo, they hope to lay low-and get high-in an old family hideout in the woods. But Chelsea’s got reservations about going back to nature and secrets she’s not sharing with her friends. When a shot rings out, her past comes crashing back, and the punks find themselves pitted against the local authority- an unhinged park ranger with an axe to grind.”
Jeremy Holm (“House of Cards”, “Mr Robot”), Chloe Levine (The Transfiguration, The OA) and Amanda Grace Benitez (All Cheerleaders Die) star alongside Granit Lahu, Jeremy Popeand Bubba Weiler in the film from Larry Fessenden’s Glass Eye Pix and Andrew van den Houten’s Hood River Entertainment.
The killer soundtrack features The Grim, the Avengers, Fang and more.
The Ranger was written by Jenn Wexler and Giaco Furino.
Andrew van den Houten and Ashleigh Snead produced for Hood River Entertainment and Larry Fessenden and Heather Buckley produced for Glass Eye Pix, along with Wexler.
April 23, 2019
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Eric Pennycoff has SADISTIC INTENTIONS
The film by GEP pal Eric Pennycoff is making the rounds at festivals and stars
Jeremy Gardner and Taylor Zaudtke, first seen together in Chris Skotchdopole’s
The EGG and The HATCHET.
From The Farsighted Blog: “The only other credited actor in the film is Larry Fessenden, whose role is somewhat meaningful, albeit very small. He’s called “homeowner” on the film’s IMDB, so let’s suffice it to say he’s the head of his household (an inside joke only those who have seen the film will understand, but my inner dad wouldn’t allow me to let the opportunity for a good dad jokes to go by unused or underutilized).”
April 18, 2019
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TBT: The Egg and The Hatchet
2015, Jeremy Gardner and Taylor Zaudtke on set of THE EGG AND THE HATCHET,
a short film directed by Chris Skotchdopole.
April 14, 2019
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GEP pal Jesse Locascio in NYT
GEP stalwart Jesse Locascio (Camera AC on LATE PHASES, PRANKS, STRAY BULLETS, THE RANGER, LIKE ME, DEPRAVED) featured in New York Times article celebrating the art of the film projectionist:
How a Movie Projectionist
Keeps the Dying Art of Celluloid Alive
For the 9:20 p.m. movie, Jesse Locascio threaded film through the projector. This was after he had sprayed compressed air on the sprockets and rollers, blowing out dust that could show up as black dots on the screen.
“This is not how they do it at the multiplex,” he said. “Not even close.”
Not in the digital age.
Mr. Locascio, 28, is a movie projectionist who can do things the old-fashioned way, operating projectors with big reels of celluloid. Projectionists, he says, are a dying breed and he learned much of what he knows in a long, narrow room of clattering machinery: a projectionist’s booth at the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, N.Y.
The Jacob Burns, as it is known, operates a media arts lab that teaches digital literacy as well as a nonprofit art house that was screening “Where’s Poppa?” — a 1970 comedy directed by Carl Reiner — at 9:20 in theater two. But it also trains projectionists, and in an art house, that means learning to handle more than digital files.
It means learning to handle celluloid.
“It was a whole new education,” said Jesse Modica, who as the center’s technical director is Mr. Locascio’s boss. Mr. Modica had worked in commercial theaters before he arrived at the Jacob Burns in 2007.
“My previous training didn’t include any of the nuances,” he said, but he learned from the projectionists at the Jacob Burns. And now Mr. Modica trains newcomers like Mr. Locascio in the mechanics of showing film.
Training a projectionist is “like giving somebody private lessons,” Mr. Modica said. “A lot of this is muscle memory. Once I teach someone, ‘O.K., this is how you inspect the film, this is how you get the sound to work, this is how you make sure you’ve got the right aspect ratio,’ they’ve got to remember come showtime. It’s like someone taking karate. You can learn all the karate you want in the dojo, but are you going to remember when you’re being attacked in an alley?”
Read Whole Article HERE
April 12, 2019
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Weekends with GEP: Graham Reznick’s DEADWAX
While you wait for your Holy Mountain Printing exclusive vinyl of THE GRANDFATHER
to arrive in the mail, why don’t you binge watch Graham Reznick’s masterwork DEADWAX.
Now streaming on Shudder.
April 12, 2019
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Tales From Beyond The Pale: THE GRANDFATHER now on Vinyl LP! A Holy Mountain exclusive
Our pals at Holy Mountain Printing release vinyl of
Graham Reznick’s THE GRANDFATHER, featuring Angus Scrimm.
Available on glow in the dark or split blue/green 12″ vinyl.
This release is limited to a total of 500 pieces.
April 12, 2019
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Slash Film: WENDIGO “The Best Movies Streaming Right Now”
Wendigo Now Streaming on Amazon Prime Video
If you saw the new Pet Sematary, and were intrigued by the legend of the Wendigo that’s mentioned briefly in the film, you might want to check out Larry Fessenden‘s Wendigo. A low-budget affair, Fessenden knows exactly how to stretch his budget and create an effective, creepy chiller. Jake Weber, Patricia Clarkson and Erik Peter Sullivan play a family who decide to take a vacation from Manhattan and head to a cabin in heavily wooded upstate New York. The trip runs into trouble almost immediately, when the family runs afoul of a group of rude, confrontational hunters. Once everyone gets to the cabin, things only get weirder, as some sort of malevolent presence seems to be lurking about. Is it all in the heads of the characters, or is there something supernatural afoot? You decide.
