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. 

March 4, NYC: Longtime Glass Eye Pix collaborator Brahm Revel (storyboard artist, comic book illustrator of Wendigo, I Sell the Dead, Beneath and his own epic series, Guerillas) wraps his first “Tale from Beyond the Pale” at DigIt Audio Wednesday night. Audio play stars Nick Damici (STAKE LAND, LATE PHASES), Michael Cerveris (STAKE LAND, FRINGE), Alison Wright (THE AMERICANS) and Kareem Savinon (LIBERTY KID, LATE PHASES). Glenn McQuaid produces with Jenn Wexler.

Engineer Tom Efinger of DigIt, Cerveris, Revel, Damici and McQuaid.

LATE PHASES will be available to own on DVD (from Walmart and Amazon) and Blu-Ray (Best Buy and Amazon) on Tuesday March 10th! 

Fessenden joins the cast of NO WAY TO LIVE, written and directed by Nick Chakwin and David Guglielmo. Set in the 1950’s, the movie follows an interracial teenage couple who steal to escape the bigoted American South. Starring Freya Tingley, and Tom Williamson as the lovers on the run.

From the Event Page:

As a film director, Larry Fessenden has crafted several of the most indelible and idiosyncratic horror movies of the last 25 years, from the urban vampire tale Habit to the visionary and environmental apocalypse of The Last Winter. But he’s also had a major impact on the independent filmmaking landscape as a producer of genre films, including the work of Ti West, as well as via his collaboration with the acclaimed writer-director Kelly Reichardt, who cast Fessenden as the uneasy-riding star of her breakthrough road movie River of Grass. As Fessenden’s Glasseye Pix production company celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2015, the time seems right to survey the career of a brilliantly expressive filmmaker whose clever, palpably handcrafted films honor the noble B-movie tradition of tackling social issues without sacrificing scares. This lecture, specially created for The Black Museum, will weave together critical commentary with clips from Fessenden’s films, including his recent killer-catfish film Beneath.

April 8, 2015 at 9:15pm
The Royal Cinema, 608 College St, Toronto
Cost: $12 advance / $15 at the door

Click for more info and to buy a ticket!

A brand new clip’s just been released from GEP pal Mickey Keating’s Pod, starring Lauren Ashley Carter, Dean Cates, and Fessenden.

From Bloody Disgusting:

Playing in the upcoming South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival’s Midnighters section is Mickey Keating’s hotly anticipated Pod, which will World Premiere at the fest running from March 13 – 21, 2015 in Austin, Texas.

The addition to the first trailer being released, we now have a clip from the horror pic that features Lauren Ashley Carter, Dean Cates, Brian Morvant, Larry Fessenden, and John Weselcouch. In it, two doors are busted open, one teases something terrifying.

In Pod, a family intervention goes horrifically awry within the snowy confines of an isolated lake house.

“After receiving a troubling voicemail, estranged siblings Ed and Lyla travel to their isolated family lake house in Maine to hold an intervention on their increasingly paranoid, war veteran brother, Martin. But the situation rapidly spirals out of control when they discover the house completely ransacked and learn that Martin has constructed an elaborate and horrifying conspiracy theory surrounding a sinister entity that he believes he has trapped in the basement.”

GEP’s Jenn Wexler joins the conversation at the Fusion Film Festival at NYU in the panel WOMEN IN HORROR tomorrow (2/27/15) at from 7-8:30pm. She’ll be talking with Mary Harron (director of American Psycho), Kat Shea (Poison Ivy) and Katie Carman-Lehach (producer, Eat Me!, Off Season) in a panel moderated by critically-acclaimed director Mary Lambert (Pet Semetary).

For more information on the Fusion Film Festival, check out the events page. And you can even read up on the bios for all the panelists.

GEP pal LAWRENCE MICHAEL LEVINE’s new murder romp WILD CANARIES opens today in select theaters and on VOD. It stars SOPHIA TAKAL, JASON RITTER, KEVIN CORRIGAN and ANNIE PARISSE and features—don’t blink— Fessenden in the proverbial party scene. Step out and support this flick. The New York Times enthuses “Mr. Levine spins a caper that wins you over”

Join us in the Cutting Room with a new post on Hollywood composers… check it!

10 Stellar Culture Documentaries the Oscars Snubbed

by Melissa Stern

…. As a dedicated doc-watcher, as well as a documentary screener/curator for an international film festival for the past five years, I’ve found a few documentaries related to art and culture that have really stuck with me over the years.

Here is my roundup, not only of films from the last year but of the past decade. These are films you may have missed in theaters, never saw because they got a one-week showing in NYC and LA and nowhere else, or that were simply too far below the radar ….

….  Birth of the Living Deaddocuments the genesis and making of this seminal film, weaving it seamlessly into its late-sixties origins. There’s the added bonus of an extensive interview with a most delightful George Romero (the director of the 1968 film) as well as hilarious details of how this film was made on a shoestring in suburban Pittsburgh, with many from the local community volunteering to portray the first flesh-eating zombies of the modern era ….

Read the whole article at Hyperallergic