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. 

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

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