EW just shouted out some standout films to be shown at SpectreFest 2015, and also gave a nice nod to the upcoming THE LARRY FESSENDEN COLLECTION boxed set. The set, from Scream Factory, hits shelves October 20th, 2015 and includes NO TELLING, HABIT, WENDIGO, and THE LAST WINTER.

Here’s EW’s full announcement:

The lineup for this year’s SpectreFest was announced on Friday, and it includes a sneak peek of the upcoming Goosebumps movie, the Elijah Wood-starring horror-comedy Cooties, and a screening of actor-director Larry Fessenden’s influential 1997 vampire tale, Habit.

SpectreFest is curated by SpectreVision, the boutique horror film production company founded by Wood, Daniel Noah, and Josh C. Waller, whose films include Cooties and the just-released origin-of-a-serial-killer tale, The Boy. This year’s festival takes place Sept. 3 through Oct. 30, at L.A.’s Cinefamily, at the Silent Movie Theatre, 611 N. Fairfax Avenue.

This year’s lineup also boasts the Taissa Farmiga– and Nina Dobrev-starring Final Girls, the by-all-accounts-completely-nuts New Zealand film Deathgasm, and a night of programming by horror film expert Zack Carlson. The screening of Habit, which takes place Oct. 4, will be followed by a discussion between the director and Daniel Noah. (Fessenden fans may also care to note that Habit is one of the films featured in The Larry Fessenden Collection, a Blu-ray set being released by Scream Factory, Oct. 20).

As usual, SpectreFest also features a strong musical component: Cooties composer Kreng  (a.k.a. Pepijn Caudron) will provide an original score to accompany a screening of the Ingmar Bergman film Hour of the Wolf, and film composer and electronic musician Steve Moore will present an original synth score set to an abstract re-edit of the Superman films of the ‘80’s. Finally, Geto Boys rapper Bushwick Bill will present a screening of his favorite horror movie, Child’s Play, as part of a “Hip Hop Horror” evening.

The full SpectreFest lineup can be found via the official SpectreVision website.

MCV tells an awesome story about the founding of the upcoming PS4 exclusive game UNTIL DAWN, as well as thoughts and quotes from the makers of the game!

Read on for MCV’s entire story!

Playstation Underground has just released a whopping 20 minutes of new footage for the upcoming PS4 exclusive game UNTIL DAWN. Written by Fessenden and Graham Reznick, the game offers tons of choices, splintering paths, and a butterfly effect to every decision you make as a player.

Read on to see all the gameplay footage, and be sure to grab your copy of UNTIL DAWN when it hits stores this TUESDAY, AUGUST 25th!

JoBlo’s horror site Arrow in the Head took an in-depth look at the career (so far) of GEP pal Ti West. This awesomely exhaustive article was written by Jake Dee!

Read on for the entire post, originally on Arrow in the Head.

Spectacular Optical just posted an awesome, in depth interview with GEP Pal Graham Reznick!

Here’s just a small snippet from the interview, where Reznick speaks about listening to music while writing:

I listen to a lot of noise when I write. It puts you in an emotional space, and it doesn’t distract you. I use music a lot as a kind of utility based on everyday life. It helps me get into a space. It’s hard for me to write to things that take all of my attention. Noise can go both ways. I can listen and hear every detail of it, or I can put it on, and let it affect me subconsciously. I’ll hear it but I won’t be hearing it. I know it’s a good writing day when I don’t realize the record has been on for forty-five minutes.

Read on for the full interview!

EW has a brand new trailer for the Mickey Keating directed POD, starring Dean Cates, Lauren Ashley Carter, and Brian Morvant, featuring Fessenden.

From the EW breakdown:

Where would the horror genre be without creepy woods and basements? We don’t know—and, fortunately, it’s not something we have to worry about.

That brings us to the creepy woods-and-basement-featuring trailer for the new, SXSW-screened horror movie, Pod. Written and directed by Mickey Keating, the film stars Dean Cates and Lauren Ashley Carter as siblings whose veteran brother, played by Brian Morvant, believes he has a secured a sinister being of some sort in the basement of their family’s remote lakehouse in Maine.

The film also features the always watchable indie-horror nabob Larry Fessenden and will be released to select theaters and on VOD, Aug. 28.

Read On for the trailer and an awesome new poster!

From Flavorwire:

Over the past few years, Kelly Reichardt has become one of our favorite independent filmmakers, bringing her unique style, relentless realism, and unmistakable voice to such diverse pictures as Meek’s Cutoff, Old Joy, Wendy and Lucy, and Night Moves. But her first film, 1993’s River of Grass, has always been a bit slippery; limited availability on DVD (used copies are currently going for $40 on Amazon), impossible to stream, and generally out of circulation, it’s getting a major re-release via the fine folks at Oscilloscope Laboratories. And as part of that push, they’ve commissioned a brand-new poster from artist Zachary Baldus, which we’re thrilled to debut exclusively on Flavorwire:

Indiewire reports that Kelly Reichardt’s partially Kickstarter-funded, newly restored version of RIVER OF GRASS picked for prestigious TIFF Cinematheque. Fessenden stars alongside Lisa Bowman in this 1994 film.

From the Indiewire release:

In addition to its stellar slate of new titles and emerging talent, the Toronto International Film Festival is dedicated to paying respect to the cinema — and masters — that have come before the latest and greatest in contemporary film talent. As part of the initiative, the festival boasts two unique programs — TIFF Cinematheque, which focuses on previously released classics, and Masters of Cinema, which features new films from, well, masters of cinema — and both sections have now revealed their slate for the 2015 festival.

Read on for more details and all the picks.

Fessenden executive produces ENTERTAINMENT, the new film from Rick Alverson, director of THE COMEDY. Check out the trailer below, and catch it in theaters and on iTunes November 13th.

Deep Focus Records dropped the news that a pre-order date has been set for a special, limited edition vinyl release of the soundtrack to I SELL THE DEAD!

PRE-ORDER DATE IS SET FOR AUGUST 10, 2015
It’s been many months in the making, but the time has finally come…

The I SELL THE DEAD soundtrack is finally coming to vinyl for the first time! Pre-orders will begin Monday August 10, 2015. The release date is September 15, but for those who place a pre-order, your copies will ship as soon as we get them.

This limited edition of 500 copies will come in red and purple swirl vinyl, plus artwork created exclusively for the release by Ghoulish Gary Pullin. We were also fortunate enough to have Angus Scrimm write liner notes for the release!

As an exclusive bonus to those of you who pre-order directly through Deep Focus Records, your vinyl will come with a folded 24×36 poster of the film, adapted from the vinyl-only artwork:

ABOUT THE RELEASE:
Composer Jeff Grace’s string-laden score perfectly complements the film’s horror-comedy tonal duality. The music goes from playful arrangement to spine-tingling terror in a matter of seconds.

I SELL THE DEAD, directed by Glenn McQuaid, stars Dominic Monaghan (LORD OF THE RINGS, LOST), Larry Fessenden (WE ARE STILL HERE, YOU’RE NEXT), Ron Perlman (SONS OF ANARCHY, HELLBOY) and Angus Scrimm (PHANTASM).

The film marked the sixth collaboration between Jeff Grace and Glass Eye Pix. Grace is best known for his musical contributions to the directorial works of Ti West, including HOUSE OF THE DEVIL, THE INNKEEPERS, THE ROOST, and the forthcoming IN A VALLEY OF VIOLENCE, starring Ethan Hawke and John Travolta.

For those who had questions about the exact moment the pre-order started on our first release, the pre-order starts just after the stroke of midnight U.S. Eastern Time. So, quite literally the first moments of Monday morning.