We send off Angus with a gallery of shots culled from years of outings, premieres, screenings and productions. Forgive inaccuracies with dates: life is a blur and what we are left with is the essence of our relationships and the camaraderie and work. So long, Angus.

Check out the full gallery.

As we spend some time thinking of Angus today we have posted
two TALES FROM BEYOND THE PALE in which he starred:
THE GRANDFATHER by Graham Reznick and
THE TRIBUNAL OF MINOS by James Felix McKenney.

Please enjoy them streaming now in the Tales LISTENING ROOM.

Beloved Angus Scrimm, AKA Lawrence Guy, departed this world on January 9 2016. He has been a loyal and cherished friend for many years. While fans will remember him as The Tall Man, at Glass Eye Pix we fondly recall the many contributions he made for film, audio, print and music projects too. But most of all for us he was a loyal, articulate, supportive, dear friend. We are still enjoying the chocolates he sent for Christmas.

Farewell Angus, we are so blessed to have known you and you will always be with us in our hearts and in our memories and in our collaborations for which you showed unwavering enthusiasm.

In my car, I still have an old hand-written note from you, addressed to my son Jack, in which you annotate the contents of some gifts you were bestowing on him: some Jazz and classical CDs you thought might fortify his musical enlightenment. You have inspired us with your warmth and humanity and grace.

Your own musical gifts will not go overlooked, dear Angus, as this clip will attest: an original composition of yours we commissioned for Jim McKenney’s film THE OFF SEASON, recorded in a conference room at a Fango convention in L.A. in 2005.

Our 30th Anniversary Hootenanny continues with this series of Legacy Docs celebrating the community and collaborators that have kept us honest all these years…

Chris Skotchdopole edits this Glass Eye Pix 30th Anniversary Mini-Doc with Brent Kunkle, Producer and Office Manager from 2007 to 2014. Brent worked on many of the classic Glass Eye films including I SELL THE DEAD, STAKE LAND, BITTER FEAST, THE VIEWER, SANTA CLAWS, AMERICAN JESUS, THE COMEDY, and LATE PHASES. He speaks about his time working at Fessenden’s Independent production company.

THE CHAMBERS TAPE Special Cassette Edition is a painstaking recreation of the original “AVIARY” cassette tape from the late 1970’s. SIDE A features “THE CHAMBERS TAPE.” SIDE B features 36 minutes of original ambient synthesizer drone, a cassette-only exclusive.

WE ARE STILL HERE garners eight different nominations for the 2015 Fright Meter Awards! Fessenden Nominated for Best Supporting actor:

From Slasher Studios:

The 2015 Fright Meter Award nominations have been revealed and It Follows, Spring, and We Are Still Here lead the 2015 nominations with seven each, including Best Director and Best Actress.

The Fright Meter Awards have been presented annually since 2007 by the Fright Meter Awards Committee, a registered non profit organization dedicated solely to honoring the best in horror each year. Nominees and winners are determined by the committee, which consists of horror bloggers, actors, directors, producers, and others involved in the industry.

Thanks one and all for sharing with us this 30 year celebration these last several months.

Of course it was just an excuse to highlight old projects and long-time collaborators and to puff ourselves up so we can go a few more rounds. We’ve got some more mini-docs we’ll be rolling out at the start of the year, there’s always one more GEP alum with their side of the story to tell…

As 2015 ends, we have three features in post production, and several more in the pipeline, and a season of Live Tales from Beyond the Pale we’ll be trying to get out to you. Oh and some comic books and a non-fiction paper-back we hope will tickle your fancy. So do stay tuned…

With the U.S. election coming up, and the world teetering on the brink of collapse, this will be a year filled with horror for sure. Let’s hope most of it is in our fictions.

Happy New Year, cinephiles and audiophiles and horror fans. Until next time, this is Fessenden signing off.

2015 was a busy year for Fessenden, Glass Eye Pix and all our assorted GEP Pals. Here are some year-end showings on various Best-Of 2015 lists….

THE FESSENDEN COLLECTION Blu-ray Box set of 4 Fessenden Films

Bloody-Disgusting: BEST BLU-RAY COLLECTIONS OF 2015
“Scream Factory had an incredibly impressive year, both on their own and from their partnership with IFC. Through all those great releases one truly stood out for me and that was The Larry Fessenden Collection (my review).”

L.A. TIMES: BEST BLU-RAYS OF 2015
“The Larry Fessenden Collection” (Scream! Factory/IFC/Glass Eye Pix): One of the best arguments for the continued existence of physical media is this box set spotlighting the work of one of America’s most original horror auteurs. Fessenden has quietly put together a body of features, shorts and experiments that make more sense when they’re gathered all in one place than when they’re scattered.”

TALES SEASON 3 by Fessenden and Glenn McQuaid / A Glass Eye Pix Production

AV CLUB: STAFF PICKS
“Larry Fessenden lives and breathes horror. Besides writing and directing a box-set worth of his own indie scare fare, he’s also acted in any number of fright flicks, mentored young horror mavericks like Jim Mickle and Ti West, and worked on the screenplay for this year’s slasher-movie-inspired video game, Until Dawn. One of his most interesting contributions to the genre, however, is the horror podcast Tales From Beyond The Pale, whose third season premiered on Black Friday. Produced and developed by Fessenden with regular collaborator Glenn McQuaid, the series resurrects the radio drama of early last century: Each episode is a one-act horror play, gamely performed by voice talent both recognizable and not, and written/directed by various artists of the genre, with Fessenden dropping in before and after to play old-school host. The content varies in quality, but especially in tone: Some episodes aspire to the creaky theatrical style of an old Boris Karloff segment, while others are distinctly modern in adult subject matter and language. What links them all, beyond uniformly excellent sound design, is an earnest interest in using pure audio techniques—foley effects, dialogue, creepy music—to elicit unease and create a whole world within listeners’ ears. The best of the bunch, such as season one’s unnerving surgery story “The Conformation,” serve as good reminders that what you can hear and imagine is sometimes much scarier than what you can see. It’s not surprising that Fessenden, a one-man champion of all things frightening, would understand that better than most. [A.A. Dowd]”

DARLING by Mickey Keating / A Glass Eye Pix Production

Iconsoffright: TOP 10 HORROR MOVIES OF THE YEAR
“#1 DARLING is in no way for everyone, that’s one thing I’ll get out of the way when talking about the film that is easily my favorite film of the entire year and in all actuality, my favorite film in quite a few years. It’s a complete descent into madness, told through flashing lights, long moments without dialogue and a Polanski-heavy vibe that is sure to turn some genre fans off. With all of that being said though, it’s also very simply, a film so close to being a perfect piece of cinema that it feels like an important thing, watching it.”

WE ARE STILL HERE by Ted Geoghegan, featuring Fessenden

Rolling Stone: 10 Best horror movies of 2015
“A peculiar New England terror with Lucio Fulci in its veins, Ted Geoghegan’s wintry haunted-house film defies the tired affectations of the standard ghost story. Its isolated pair of couples are melancholy, middle-aged, and terribly offbeat (see: the possession of Larry Fessenden and the space case of Lisa Marie). The specters on hand are as likely to thrust charred hands through a body, as they are to ominously lurk. And it’s all tied to a Lovecraftian home, a beast of a structure whose walls are the canvas for one of 2015s finest splatter-filled finales. SZ”

UNTIL DAWN, writers Graham Reznick and Fessenden / Sony Playstation

Engadget: These are our favorite video games of 2015
“Supermassive Games’ PlayStation 4 debut is unlike any big-budget game I’ve played in ages. Rather than sticking a gun in my hand, it sat me down in a director’s chair and essentially told me to craft my own horror movie. It could’ve been disastrous, but Supermassive intrinsically gets what makes for a good horror flick: the unknown, atmosphere, killer writing, and great performances from (mostly) unknown actors.”

Indiewire hosts the latest TALES FROM BEYOND THE PALE episode by Joe Maggio. CANNIBALS follows an auteur who discovers that a young filmmaker is biting his style.

Read on for more info and an interview with Maggio.

Indiewire hosts Eric Red’s LITTLE NASTIES, a new TALES FROM BEYOND THE PALE episode about the terror of children’s beauty pageants.

Read on for more info and an interview with Eric Red.