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Halloween Hang with DR AC and friends on the 85th Birthday of WOLF MAN.

HORROR 101 with Dr. AC – Friday Night Frights
THE WOLF MAN (1941) d. George Waggner (USA)
FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLF MAN (1943) d. Roy William Neill (USA)
HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1944) d. Erle C. Kenton (USA)
HOUSE OF DRACULA (1945) d. Erle C. Kenton (USA)
ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN (1948) d. Charles T. Barton (USA)

“Even a man who is pure of heart, and says his prayers by night May become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms, and the autumn moon is bright.” As any good horror fan knows, these words foreshadow the nightmare to come in Universal Studios’ classic monster flick, The Wolf Man. Produced/directed by George Waggner in 1941, this howling good b/w film introduced audiences to a character that stands alongside Frankenstein’s Monster and Dracula as one of the “Unholy Three,” the most recognized of the Universal monsters.

Join AC and his awesome panel of guests (Larry Fessenden, Rob Galluzzo, Daniel Kiggins, Tom Mula, Lee Price) as we head back 85 years to the 1940s silver age of Universal to witness the birth of a new horror star in Lon Chaney and a new horror icon in THE WOLF MAN!!

00:00 Episode Intro
02:27 Panel Intro
8:45 Why We Love The Wolf Man
22:37 Lon Chaney as Lawrence Talbot
30:12 Jack Pierce’s Makeup
38:46 The Ensemble
43:32 Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
52:51 House of Frankenstein
1:04:50 House of Dracula
1:18:45 Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein
1:32:09 Trauma, or Monsters All (Larry’s new movie!)
1:34:52 Final Thoughts

Keep Searching, Keep Exploring, and, most of all, Keep Sharing the Scare!

IFC GEP TRIBUTE DAY 4: Glenn McQuaid’s I SELL THE DEAD

I SELL THE DEAD
Dir. Glenn McQuaid (2008 85 min, 2.35:1)
Dominic Monaghan, Ron Perlman, Larry Fessenden

19th century justice has finally caught up to grave robbers Arthur Blake and Willie Grimes. The colorful and peculiar history of Grimes and Blake is one filled with adventure, horror, and vicious rivalries that threaten to put all involved in the very graves they’re trying to pilfer. Never Trust A Corpse.

“WINNER!Best Independent Feature”
—TORONTO AFTER DARK 2008

“WINNER!Special Jury Mention – Best Performance – Larry Fessenden”
—SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2008

“WINNER! Best Cinematography – Richard Lopez”
—SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2008

“McQuaid never lets go of the deadpan Gaelic wit that makes the film so effortlessly enjoyable.”
—Chris Barsanti, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

“Fright Night, With Thrills From Six Feet Under”
—Manohla Dargis, NEW YORK TIMES

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IFC GEP TRIBUTE DAY 3: Ti West’s THE INNKEEPERS

The Innkeepers
dir. Ti West (2010 101 min, super 35, 2.35)
Sara Paxton, Pat Healy, Kelly McGillis, Lena Dunham

After over one hundred years of service, The Yankee Pedlar Inn is shutting its doors for good. The last remaining employees -Claire (Sara Paxton) and Luke (Pat Healy) – are determined to uncover proof of what many believe to be one of New England’s most haunted hotels.

“Ti West, the 34-year-old writer-director of The Innkeepers, has spent the past several years steadily toiling his way through the ranks of horror filmmaking”
—Nick Pinkerton THE VILLAGE VOICE

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DAY TWO of IFC’s GEP TRIBUTE: Jim Mickle’s STAKE LAND

Dir Jim Mickle (2010 98 min, red one, 2.35)
Connor Paolo, Nick Damici, and Kelly McGillis

Martin (Connor Paolo) was a normal teenage boy before the country collapsed in an empty pit of economic and political disaster. A vampire epidemic has swept across what is left of the nation’s abandoned towns and cities, and it’s up to Mister (Nick Damici), a death dealing, rogue vampire hunter, to get Martin safely north to Canada, the continent’s New Eden.

New York Times critics’ pick
—Jeannette Catsoulis NEW YORK TIMES

The American Horror Film of the Year
—Todd Brown TWITCH FILM

The Mayhem is beautifully composed. The Performances are terrific.
—THE NEW YORKER

Harrowing! Puts vampires back where they belong — in your nightmares, and at your throat!Rex Reed —-—NEW YORK OBSERVER

An ambitious hybrid, grafting the ethereal, landscape-driven, light-infused beauty and naïf narration associated with Terrence Malick onto a tale in which struggle against supernatural forces is just one challenge of coming of age—a trope that … hasn’t had such a sense of balance between the fantastic and the organic since the heyday of Joss Whedon …
thick with a distinct mood—the sadness and exhilaration of having nothing left to lose—and the characters, in their desperation and drive, feel real.
Fessenden may be producing the best brains-before-blood horror in North America today.
—Karina Longworth THE VILLAGE VOICE

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Grand Day Out: GEP commences IFC run

At NYC’s IFC Film Center: Optic Nerve A tribute to Glass Eye Pix starts today with Fessenden’s HABIT

Join us 8:45 tonight for a screening of
HABIT with Q&A to follow.
Other classic titles unspooling twice daily
all spooky week!

OCT 27: GEP 40TH ANNIVERSARY KICKOFF: Scareflix at the Paradise Theater 6PM-?

6PM
I CAN SEE YOU
Dir. Graham Reznick. (2008 97 mins, hvx)
Cast: Ben Dickinson, Duncan Skiles, Christopher Paul Ford,
Heather Robb, Olivia Villanti, Larry Fessenden

Three aspiring ad-men take a weekend in the wilderness, brainstorming for their first assignment: to overhaul the image of a once popular cleaning product, Claractix. While in the woods, a girlfriend’s mysterious disappearance sparks a harrowing descent into unreality.

“I CAN SEE YOU heralds a splendid new filmmaker with one eye on genre mechanics,
one eye on avant-garde conceits and a third eye for transcendental weirdness.”
—The New York Times

“Without a doubt one of the most intriguing and well-crafted low-budget horror films in recent memory.”—Fangoria

“Ultimately opting for Brakhage over butchery, by turning vision itself into
a mind-frying source of anxiety.”
—Village Voice

8PM
AUTOMATONS
James Felix McKenney (2006 83 min, B&W)
Christine Spencer, Angus Scrimm, Brenda Cooney

Somewhere in the distant future, The Girl is alone. She is the last of her people, the others having died in a generations-long war that the girl continues to fight with the assistance of a group of antiquated robot helpers and soldiers.

“Robot radness achieved! Budgets are for bitches.”
—Nathan Lee The Village Voice

“Mr. McKenney’s claustrophobic technique becomes his way not only of accommodating his small budget, but of evoking the film’s themes of isolation and denial.”
—S. James Snyder The NY Sun

“If you’re into retro tech, or just retro sci-fi, or damn good MiSTie fodder,
then you’re going to love Automatons.”
—Steve Anderson Film Threat

10PM
Satan Hates You
Dir. James Felix McKenney (2011 94 min, hvx, 1.78)
Don Wood, Larry Fessenden, Christine Spencer, Angus Scrimm,
Reggie Bannister, Michael Berryman

We follow Marc (Don Wood) a homicidal maniac driven by demons buried deep within his soul, and Wendy (Christine Spencer) Marc’s polar opposite who lives life fast and hard without a second’s thought to the consequences. Their separate paths will eventually cross, but will it be on the road to salvation or the highway to hell?

“works as a sneakily sincere re-imagining of Christian scare tactics
as a punch-drunk passion play for wayward hedonists”
—Simon Abrams

See What’s Up at the Paradise Theater Website