3.11.15: Tales vet Jeff Buhler (“This Oracle Moon,” “Stranger” as well as scripts for film reboots PET SEMATARY and JACOB’S LADDER is joined by cast members Josh Leonard (BITTER FEAST, THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT), Mark Kelly (UNEARTHED, INSANITORIUM), Heather Goldenhersh (SCHOOL OF ROCK, KINSEY), and Molly Bryant (DEAD MAN WALKING).

Mark Kelly, Jeff Buhler, Heather Goldenhersh, Josh Leonard, Molly Bryant, sound maestro Zed Starkovich

Bloody-Disgusting’s launching a major interview with GEP pal and director of the upcoming ‘Pod’ Mickey Keating, and today they’ve put out his comments on his new projects ‘Carnage Park’ and GEP-produced ‘Darling’.

From Bloody-Disgusting:

While Pod premiere this weekend, Keating is already is post-production on Darling, pictured, which was shot in November with Larry Fessenden’s Glass Eye Pix, starring Lauren Carter, Brian Morvant, and Sean Young.

“I wanted to do something on the complete opposite end of the spectrum from Pod, so this one’s a black-and-white, 1960s style descent into madness,” Keating exclusively tells Bloody Disgusting. “It’s more experimental, like nightmare or a bad drug trip. A surreal nod to The Innocents, Eraserhead, Diabolique, The Haunting, Repulsion, The Tenant, Altman’s That Cold Day In The Park, and to the works of Hollis Frampton.

“Strangely though, it’s definitely my meanest, goriest film yet,” he adds.

In addition, it was announced in February that Keating is set to get behind the camera for the survival horror Carnage Park.

“It’s going to be a very vicious horror film set entirely during the day, in a cruel stretch of California desert,” explains Keating. “It’s my first period piece – set in 1978 – and it’s about a botched bank heist that quickly spirals into a horrific fight for survival. It’ll be a nod to the legendary Sam Peckinpah and his masterpiece The Getaway, the new French Extremism films of the 2000s, and The Most Dangerous Game.

“We’re locking down a pretty cool cast now and I’m very excited to make a cruel, pulpy horror film,” he excitedly adds.

From EW: “The last time Re-Animator actress Barbara Crampton and indie film all-rounder Larry Fessenden were both cast in a film, the result was 2011’s fabulous horror-comedy You’re Next. So hopes are high for writer-director Ted Geoghegan’s terror tale We Are Still Here, which again features both actors and premieres at the upcoming SXSW Festival.”

The wait is over, get your copy today!

“…a sprightly horror movie about finding new purpose in old bones… Robert Kurtzman’s old-school effects produce an endearingly shaggy creature that’s pleasingly tactile and beholden to the laws of physics.” -JEANNETTE CATSOULIS, NY TIMES

It’s hard to hide from something with such a good sense of smell!

“In addition to the careful parceling-out of information and anticipation, the film benefits enormously from Damici’s lead performance: gruff, funny, aggressive, and, of course, commanding sympathy, the character compellingly entices the audience to board this ride.” – ZACHARY WIGON, VILLAGE VOICE

Tomorrow! DVD and Blu-Ray! Don’t let the full moon pass you by.

Fessenden’s HABIT unspools (on Blu-ray) at the Sunshine Theater (143 E Houston St, New York, NY 10002) Tonight, 8 March 2015 at 8:30 PM. Evening Kicks off with Abel Ferrara’s THE ADDICTION at 7PM and concludes with Leif Jonker’s DARKNESS at 10:30. Fessenden to attend. 

 “you get a sense of the immediacy of the city, it’s rush and loneliness… keeps you guessing until the final shot of the film. It’s a wild ride, and the honesty of every portrayal and actor is what keeps you on board. “

Jenga Loves Movies, March 3 2015

March 6, Los Angeles: Fessenden wraps his Tales from Beyond the Pale episode for Season 3  with cast Billy Boyd (THE LORD OF THE RINGS), Dominic Monagham (WILD THINGS, I SELL THE DEAD, LOST), Pat Healy (CHEAP THRILLS, THE INNKEEPERS) and James Ransone (THE WIRE, IN A VALLEY OF VIOLENCE).

Grab your garlic, vampire fans! This Sunday Sunshine Cinema brings three classic indie vampire flicks to the screen back to back, including Fessenden’s HABIT! This is a great chance to see these classics on the big screen.

As Fangoria describes the mini-fest:

The triptych, presented by Vampire Freaks and Atlanta Technical Solutions, takes place this Sunday, March 8 at 7 p.m. at the Sunshine (143 East Houston Street between 1st and 2nd Avenues). Leading off is Abel Ferrara’s moody black-and-white THE ADDICTION, starring Lili Taylor and Christopher Walken, which remains unavailable on U.S. disc, followed by Larry Fessenden’s HABIT (pictured above) in a brand new restored cut, and finished off with Leif Jonker’s underground splatterfest DARKNESS in its rarely seen alternate “Metal Cut.” Following the movies, there will be a Skype Q&A with filmmakers and critics—and if you want to make it a bloodsucker quadruple feature, the hilarious mockumentary WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS is also playing a regular engagement at the Sunshine!

All is not well at the Crescent Bay Retirement community in Adrian Garcia Bogliano’s LATE PHASES, out on DVD and Blu-ray Tuesday 10 March.