“Chiller wanted some Glass Eye productions,” Fessenden tells Fango, “and I went in and I pitched them a couple of movies. They said, ‘Those sound great, and we love your production model’—which is low-budget but classy—and they said, ‘We do have this script that we’d like you to consider for your company.’ It was a very spare story about six kids who end up in a rowboat on a lake with a giant fish attacking them. And I said, ‘You   Continue Reading »

 Murmurrings on the shoot across the web:
Arrow in he Head: LARRY FESSENDEN DRAGS DANIEL ZOVATTO BENEATH FOR HIS LATEST CREATURE FEATURE
BeyondHollywood.com: Man, I love me some Larry Fessenden. I’m glad that this guy is making and producing horror films, because he’s honestly one of the few directors working in the genre today who seems to understand what constitutes a freaky, well-rounded experience. I know a lot of people seem to really hate “Wendigo”, and I totally understand why. Yours truly, however,   Continue Reading »

Scareflix #9 available October 2: The new Glass Eye Pix Scareflick stars Michael Rooker and Blanche Baker and was direced by Glass Eye regular James Felix McKenney (THE OFF SEASON, AUTOMATONS, SATAN HATES YOU).
A creature feature in the tradition of 50’s schlock horror, HYPOTHERMIA will be sure to chill and surprise.
HYPOTHERMIA was the fourth feature in a five film collaboration with MPI Media that included THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL, BITTER FEAST, STAKE LAND, and THE INNKEEPERS.
Pre-order your copy   Continue Reading »

Glass Eye Pal JT Petty in the line-up at this year’s Toronto Film Festival Midnight Madness with Hellbenders 3D,
featuring Clancy Brown Clifton Colins with a drop in by Fessenden. Blood by Brian Spears and Score by Jeff Grace.
“Hellbenders, an R-rated 3D exorcism comedy, follows the Augustine Interfaith Order of Hellbound Saints (Brooklyn Parish), highly secretive and profoundly blasphemous men of God, as they battle demonic forces too terrible to be cast out by traditional Vatican-approved methods. Cast includes Clancy Brown,   Continue Reading »

356graphicnovels.com features and gives kudos to the Graphic Novel adaptation of ‘THE LAST WINTER’.

“This is the graphic novelisation of the low budget indie horror/ drama The Last Winter. It concerns a remote oil drilling operation in Alaska and has a strong ecological message. It was constructed by the film’s storyboard artist Brahm Revel from an early draft of the script…”

Click Here  to read the full   Continue Reading »

In a belated effort to celebrate the 2011 release LOST IN LOVE, Just Desserts band members Fessenden, Tom Laverack and Mark Ambrosino perform for director Craig Macneill and cinematographer Noah Greenberg, collaborators on the Sundance short HENLEY.
Stay tuned for further   Continue Reading »

Fango reports on Glass Eye Pal James Felix McKenney’s new Kickstarter flick VILLAIN.
Check out VILLAIN’s official website and Facebook page. And look for a story on HYPOTHERMIA (coming this fall from from Glass Eye Pix and Dark Sky Films) in Fango #317, on sale in   Continue Reading »

 
 
 
 
 
 
V/H/S — Part of BAMcinemaFest
Sat, Jun 30 at 10pm
Q&A with Sophia Takal, Helen Rogers, and Glenn McQuaid, moderated by Larry Fessenden
NY PREMIERE
Director: David Bruckner, Glenn McQuaid, Radio Silence, Joe Swanberg, Ti West, Adam Wingard
Executive Producer: Tom Owen, Zak Zeman
Producer: Roxanne Benjamin, Gary Binkow, Brad Miska, George Rausch
With Joe Swanberg, Adam Wingard, Sophia Takal, Kate Lyn Sheil, Calvin Reeder, Lane Hughes
(2012) 104min
This low-budget horror portmanteau film—helmed by the new generation of gore-teurs who brought you The Innkeepers, A Horrible Way to Die, and Silver Bullets—takes   Continue Reading »

THE FILM:
THE COMEDY (Rick Alverson | USA | 96 min.)
Much like Five Easy Pieces or Mike Leigh’s Naked, director Rick Alverson and lead actor Tim Heidecker have masterfully created a captivating character study about an unlikable character. (Fans of Tim and Eric should delight in seeing a new level of skillful acting from the duo.) With Swanson (Heidecker) and friends cracking wise at everything life has, the film is funny as hell. But watching this crew romp indulgently—beer wrestling and drunkenly   Continue Reading »

“An entitled slacker chump who rides his beer gut like a chariot through the trust-funded wilds of Williamsburg, Swanson (comic Tim Heidecker, playing it straight) is a horseman of the Bro-pocalypse in writer-director Alverson’s corrosive statement on post-millennial America. The trench-mouthed character’s penchant for cheap antagonism and drunken invective can polarize audiences, just as the ambling, plotless structure asks them to regard this repugnant clod with heightened sensitivity—the better to calculate his damage. It’s bold stuff, a kind of latter-day   Continue Reading »