Rue-Morgue: NSFW Exclusive—THE RESTORATION AT GRAYSON MANOR at Fantasia/Frontieres
Fantasia/Frontières Exclusive: NSFW concept video and comments for Glass Eye Pix’s THE RESTORATION AT GRAYSON MANOR
Of the 20 feature-film pitches presented during a lengthy session at the Frontières International Co-Production Market at Montreal’s current Fantasia festival, one was especially attention-grabbing. Glass Eye Pix topper Larry Fessenden, director Glenn McQuaid and screenwriter Clay McLeod Chapman offered a vivid combination of animation and live action to sell potential financiers on their project THE RESTORATION AT GRAYSON MANOR, and the latter teaser (which is extremely NSFW) can be seen here exclusively, along with a RUE MORGUE chat with the trio.
THE RESTORATION OF GRAYSON MANOR is about Boyd, a rich young man living a sex-drugs-and-rock-’n’-roll lifestyle, much to the disapproval of his mother, who’s anxious for him to produce an heir. When Boyd loses his hands in an accident, they are replaced by a robotic pair that he can control with his mind. As the proof-of-concept video seen below demonstrates, that’s bad news for a hunky guy who shows up at the family mansion expecting a good time—and our hero’s original, severed hands also make appearances, albeit seen only through Boyd’s eyes as he dreams of them wreaking havoc in the house.
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The Montreal festival has become an increasingly important launch point for adventurous genre fare.
Michael Gingold
… among the promising projects seeking the backing to come to a screen near you are:
“The Restoration at Grayson Manor”
Larry Fessenden’s Glass Eye Pix has long been a breeding ground for unconventional horror, and this latest project from writer/director Glenn McQuaid (of the much-praised “I Sell the Dead”) is no different. A combination of Gothic family conflict and modern technology gone awry, it focuses on a wealthy, hedonistic young man whose hands — severed in a tragic accident — are replaced by robotic appendages he can control with his mind.
Black humor is mixed with the shudders here, as evidenced by a proof-of-concept short screened by McQuaid, Fessenden, and co-scripter Clay McLeod Chapman, in which a hunky studmuffin enters an ornate mansion and ascends to an upper floor, stripping naked as he goes, before one of the artificial hands takes him out. Eye-catching animation was also part of this spirited preview, and if half of its energy translates to the feature, it’ll be lots of grisly fun indeed.
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Graham Reznick’s RAPID EYE among interactive projects highlighted at COMIC CON
GEP pal Graham Reznick presents a trailer for his upcoming interactive project RAPID EYE
at a panel at this year’s Comic Con. Written with and featuring Fessenden, RIPID EYE will blow your gasket.
In the fall of 2017, Eko will be launching a full slate of interactive shows created by a host of creative minds from across fandom and in association with Sony, MGM, and Warner. Come see exclusive footage of the series and chat with the creators about their respective approaches to interactive narratives and what it means to give viewers control of a character’s psyche. The minds behind the shows participating in this discussion will be Graham Reznick (Until Dawn), Sandeep Parikh (The Guild), Lindsay Pulispher (Fear the Walking Dead, True Blood), Milana Vayntrub (This Is Us), Shane Small (creator, Exploding Kittens), and Ben Conrad (GenPop). Moderated by Alex Albrecht (G4techTV).
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