October 2, 2017
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HABIT in Yonkers Wednesday 10.4.17 9:30PM at Alamo Drafthouse. Fessenden to attend
Start your Shocktober with a blast from the past:
Fessenden’s HABIT unspools on pristine DCP
at the Alamo Drafthouse in Yonkers, NY on
Wednesday, October 4 at 9:30 PM.
“ONE OF THE 13 BEST HORROR FILMS OF THE 90s!”
—FANGORIA
“ONE OF THE BEST FILMS OF THE YEAR!”
—VILLAGE VOICE, SHOCK CINEMA, MOVIEMAKER
“Amazing! The Wellesian tour de force of the 90’s (***1/2 stars of 4)”
NOMINATED! for 2 1998 Spirit Awards
Best Director, Best Cinematography
WINNER! 1997 Spirit Award
Someone to Watch Award
October 1, 2017
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Glass Eye Pix welcomes you to SHOCKTOBER!
Habit
Tales from Beyond the Pale
Most Beautiful Island
The House of the Devil
The Innkeepers
The Stake Land Collection
Until Dawn
Frankenstein
all in the news Shocktober 2017
stay tuned… if you dare
September 26, 2017
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Most Beautiful Island — exclusive trailer from Entertainment Weekly
Most Beautiful Island stars Ana Asensio as Luciana, a young immigrant woman struggling to make ends meet who is subjected to a series of physical and emotional extremes. Before her day is done, she finds herself a central participant in a cruel game where lives are placed at risk, and psyches are twisted and broken for the perverse entertainment of a privileged few.
“[The film is] an intimate exploration of solitude, identity and discovery,” says Asensio, who also wrote and directed the film, which won the Grand Jury prize at the year’s SXSW Festival. “The story was drawn from my own experiences as a young Spanish immigrant in New York City. We shot the film on super 16mm which was both a dream and an enormous challenge to accomplish due to our tight schedule and limited budget. I chose to shoot the film in an intimate, voyeuristic way, mixing professional actors with non-actors in improvised and fluid scenarios. Being an actor myself, it was crucial for me to make sure the performers received the necessary information about the roles they were playing while giving them freedom to improvise. This freedom helped tremendously in achieving the spontaneity and realism I wanted for the film.”
Read the Entertainment Weekly article HERE…
September 20, 2017
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“The Last Winter,” The Only Scary Movie About The Scariest Thing On Earth by David Roth
From Oscilloscope:
“All of this would seem to set Fessenden up as the ideal director for a horror movie about a topic that, for all its reeling apocalyptic sweep, is generally lived in the present through a series of picayune partisan skirmishes. The question is whether such a movie could in fact be made, and why there have been so few attempts. The most obvious reason why there have not been any good, scary movies about climate change also happens to be the most compelling: it’s just too fucking scary. The bigger studio features that have taken on the topic have been goofy both because they are bad, and because a less-goofy approach would make them something significantly darker than a big studio feature should be.“
September 20, 2017
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MOST BEAUTIFUL ISLAND to release November 3rd!
From Deadline:
Orion Pictures and Samuel Goldwyn Films have set a November 3 release date in select cities for the SXSW Grand Jury Award-winning film Most Beautiful Island from filmmaker Ana Asensio. The psychological thriller was picked up this summer by Orion and Samuel Goldwyn Films.
September 20, 2017
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Real-life Twin Peaks town to host inaugural North Bend Film Festival
GEP pal Jenn Wexler will be on the advisory board at the inaugural North Bend Film Festival.
The event will focus on what is being described as “standout vanguard programming”
and provide a platform for emerging filmmakers.
Entertainment Weekly has the full scoop HERE
September 15, 2017
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Ashley Thorpe’s BORLEY RECTORY unspools at European Fests
Glass Eye Pix is pleased to announce the completion of the
Carrion Films / Glass Eye Pix co-production BORLEY RECTORY by Ashley Thorpe, illustrator, animator and author of the Tales from Beyond the Pale
The Demon Huntsman and Dead Man’s Shoes.
BORLEY RECTORY, a Carrion Films / Glass Eye Pix production is premiering at Manchester’s ‘Grimm Up North’ festival on Sunday, October 8th before a wealth of festival appearances in Europe and the U.S.
A blend of rotoscope and digital animation techniques Borley Rectory is essentially an animated documentary, inspired by the haunting that caught the worlds imagination during the late 1920’s. Pitched as ‘an ultrasound of a haunting’ Borley Rectory will be archly old fashioned, black and white, textural and stylized, with a house very much a projection of the personalities within it – and the ghosts manifestations of what may be missing from their lives.
