At this year’s Oldenburg International Film Festival, Yellow Bread sat down with U.S. director Chris Skotchdopole to talk about his (first) short film, “The Egg and the Hatchet” as well as the short films in general and the shorts scene in America.

On the eve of GEP’s 31st anniversary, we hook up with Fessenden, Darroch Greer from Experienced Movers and Hollow Venus, hosted here by Lucy who tended bar during the grueling shoot 30 years ago. Visit Lucy at Avenue A and 8th Street, still one of the most welcoming bars in the East Village.

GEP launches Minidox page on 31st Anniversary with new entry…”Looking Back on HABIT” featuring interviews with original cast members… 

We are marking the day with a new page celebrating just a few of our many collaborators in the MiniDox we’ve been putting together this last year. World premiering in honor of the occasion is a brand new Minidoc by GEP chronicler Adam Barnick, a look back at Fessenden’s 1997 slow burn vampire flick, HABIT. Check it!

Birth. Movies. Death. Selects shorts from Fantastic Fest for your viewing pleasure:

… James Siewert’s mesmerizing monochrome mixed-media allegory The Past Inside the Present. Stunningly realized in part through hand-drawn charcoal rotoscoped animation, the short is being officially distributed by the filmmaker collective Indie Street, and they’re offering both the film and a bevy of special features for free through the newly christened platform Bit Torrent Now.

Check out the full article HERE

New Genre Film Festival to Launch at ‘The Shining’ Hotel

Horror will take the spotlight at a new genre film festival launching next year.

The Overlook Film Festival will open on April 27 at Oregon’s Timberline Lodge, which was used for the exterior setting of the Overlook Hotel in Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining,” Variety has learned exclusively.

Organizers Michael Lerman and Landon Zakheim announced the event on Halloween. They are planning to present experiential events, work in new and classic horror cinema, and interactive activities at the Timberline, located at the base of Mount Hood. The four-day festival will feature a weekend-long immersive game from Bottleneck Immersive and an original live version of the radio play “Tales From Beyond the Pale” by Glass Eye Pix.

“The Shining” takes place in the fictional Overlook Hotel, a haunted resort in the Colorado Rockies. Kubrick’s movie, starring Jack Nicholson and released in 1980, was based Stephen King’s 1977 novel.

Other members include Kristen Bell (Fantastic Fest), Nate Bolotin ( XYZ Films), Larry Fessenden, Colin Geddes (Toronto Intl. Film Festival), Mick Garris, Stuart Gordon, Daniel Noah (SpectreVision), Lindsay Peters (Fantasia Film Festival), Tom Quinn, Alix Taylor, Ryan Turek (Blumhouse), Josh C. Waller (SpectreVision), and Diana Williams (LucasFilm Story Group).

“We’re so grateful to the Timberline Lodge for providing such a gorgeous, iconic venue in the beautiful location of Mt. Hood, Oregon, where our unique, experiential celebration of all things genre can thrive,” Zakheim said.

Read Article from Variety

12. ‘The House of the Devil’ (2009)

The List also includes Fessenden-featuring SESSION 9 and YOU’RE NEXT along with many other favorites… Check it!

 Madeleine Koestner   at Fangoria has got ideas for what you can do tonight: The Dreadful Ten: 10 Things You Can Do This Halloween!

7. Play UNTIL DAWN

Did you play UNTIL DAWN when it came out last year? Do it. Do it now. Now’s the time. Call your friend with the PS4 and tell them it’s time. Run over there as fast as you can. Uh oh, quick time event. Hold X to jump over the tree branch. Did you do it? Your choices affect what happens next.

For anyone who complains that video games aren’t as good a storytelling form as movies, or that movies just aren’t interactive enough, UNTIL DAWN is literally a playable horror movie written by genre Glass Eye Pix’s Larry Fessenden and Graham Reznik. It’s an awesome choose-your-own-adventure kids-in-a-cabin pick-em-off. It functions as both a fantastic story with interesting, complex characters and a really fun game. You get to control Rami Malek (MR. ROBOT) and Hayden Panettiere (HEROES). It’s a stellar cast with brilliant people on the production side. Seriously, if this was just a horror movie with no playable aspect, you’d watch it in a heartbeat — but you actually get to interact with it, and it works! And it’s spooky!