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with a reposting of BTS, our Minidoc from 2020

Collectible Blu-Ray Disc Includes Limited Edition O-Card with Exclusive Artwork and 12-page Booklet with Introduction by Fangoria’s Phil Nobile Jr. 

From the Press release:

Dark Sky Selects is proud to announce the Blu-ray Disc release of BLACKOUT, the Rotten Tomatoes Certified Fresh film from independent horror master Larry Fessenden.  With only 1,000 available as a site exclusive on DarkSkySelects.com, the Blu-ray Disc features commentary with Larry, a 76-minute behind-the-scenes featurette and more. The thriller centers around a fine arts painter convinced that he is a werewolf wreaking havoc on a small American town. BLACKOUT marks the reunion of Dark Sky Films and Glass Eye Pix, two iconic companies that have brought fans some of the greatest genre films of our time.

Dark Sky Selects is proud to present BLACKOUT from horror auteur Larry Fessenden to Blu-ray Disc featuring a Limited Edition O-Card with exclusive artwork and 12-page booklet with introduction by Fangoria’s Phil Nobile Jr.

Writer-director Larry Fessenden has created some of the most original and memorable independent horror films of the last 25 years, from Habit and Wendigo to The Last Winter, Skin and Bones, Beneath and Depraved. His latest, BLACKOUT, ranks among his most chilling and thought-provoking works with a cast that includes: Alex Hurt, Addison Timlin, Motell Gyn Foster, Joseph Castillo-Midyett, Ella Rae Peck, Rigo Garay, John Speredakos, Michael Buscemi, Jeremy Holm, Joe Swanberg, James Le Gros, Kevin Corrigan, Marshall Bell and Barbara Crampton.

Earning rave reviews on the festival circuit, BLACKOUT marks the long-awaited reunion of Dark Sky Films and Larry Fessenden’s Glass Eye Pix, two iconic horror companies that brought us contemporary classics such as Ti West’s The House of The Devil and The Innkeepers, Jim Mickle’s Stake Land and Adrian Garcia Bogliano’s Late Phases.

The collectible BLACKOUT Blu-ray Disc will also include:

Commentary with Writer/Director/Editor/Producer Larry Fessenden
BLACKOUT Behind the Scenes (76 minutes)
Larry Fessenden’s Monsterverse
Monster Mash Photoshoot Timelapse by Beck Underwood
BLACKOUT Audio Drama
Teaser
Trailer

BLACKOUT is the second of many iconic Dark Sky titles that will be available this year. Additional limited-edition releases of fan favorite films and merch will be announced throughout the year, which will only be available direct to consumer at DarkSkySelects.com.

ABOUT DARK SKY SELECTS

Dark Sky Selects is committed to delivering a meticulously curated selection of high-quality, limited edition film releases and exclusive merchandise to the collector’s market. As an extension of MPI Media Group and Dark Sky Films, Dark Sky Selects hails from nearly five decades of experience in genre films, as a specialty label dedicated to preserving the legacy of iconic titles like The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, and modern classics like The House of the Devil. Our mission is to provide premium, collector-focused products that honor our cinematic heritage and ensure its preservation for future generations.

Rue Morgue has the scoop

GEP pals Jenn Wexler (THE RANGER, SACRIFICE GAME) and Ted Geoghegan (WE ARE STILL HERE, BROOKLYN 45) spotted in new documentary series HORROR’S GREATEST, a Shudder Original Series.

From SHUDDER: Celebrating the very best the genre has to offer, Horror’s Greatest is a deep dive into everything we love about horror. Featuring fresh looks at the classics and unearthing scores of hidden gems, this series has something for every fright film enthusiast, from newbies to cinephiles, gorehounds to “elevated” horror heads. A gallery of ghoulish pros, including actors, directors, writers, composers, and special effects artists, draw on their unique knowledge to answer the big questions: What are the must-see films in horror’s many sub-genres? What’s the appeal of horror tropes, and how do today’s filmmakers subvert our expectations? What shape does horror take in countries outside of the United States? What unique qualities make horror the most cinematic of all genres? Their answers encompass the width and breath of the nightmares we watch for our entertainment.

First episode TROPES & CLICHES now available. Tune in!

Declan Patrick MacManus turns 70 today. Thanks for decades of genre-busting, righteous, angry, fierce, silly, melodic and mischievous inspiration. —LF

HORROR CHANNEL NYX UK ANNOUNCES PREMIERES FOR SEPTEMBER 2024

www.nyxtv.co.uk

NYX UK announces channel premieres for September 2024, including Larry Fessenden’s DEPRAVED, and celebrates Dario Argento’s birthday.

NYX UK presents eight terrifying primetime channel premieres in September, headed up by Larry Fessenden’s DEPRAVED (2019), his modern take of the Frankenstein story, which screens on Fri 27th Sept, 9pm. Independent horror doesn’t get better or more stylish than this very post-modern Prometheus.

Read full lineup at My Bloody Reviews

Arrow Films has acquired rights in the UK and Eire to the deliciously dark Crumb Catcher. The film had its World Premiere at Fantastic Fest and went on to screen at the Woodstock Film Festival and Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, where it won the Best Ensemble and the Gold Audience Award.

Director of Acquisitions Selin Kilic at Arrow commented: “A newlywed couple face a home invasion-cum-Dragon’s Den pitch from Hell as a psychotic pair try to raise finance for their invention. The performances across the board are fantastic; with constant power shifts, the suspense continues to serve tense twists until the end in this awkward, funny thriller.”

Writer-director Chris Skotchdopole notes: “Excited to bring Crumb Catcher across the pond to the coolest genre label out there. I have loved Arrow for years and am thrilled to be included in their legendary lineup. To the moon!”

Producer Larry Fessenden of Glass Eye Pix shared: “Very pleased that Crumb Catcher has landed a home at Arrow releasing, guaranteeing that a discerning community of cinefreaks will get wind of our gonzo heartfelt picture.”
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The film stars Rigo Garay (The Leech), Ella Rae Peck (Blackout), John Speredakos (The Mind’s Eye) and Lorraine Farris (Follow Her) and was produced by Larry Fessenden (The House of the Devil) at Glass Eye Pix and Brian Devine (Private Property) at Gigantic Pictures.

Selin Kilic at Arrow Films and Joe Tufano at Submarine Entertainment negotiated the deal. Arrow will release the film on digital in the UK and Eire and as a deluxe collector’s edition Blu-ray as part of its celebrated Arrow Video brand. In the US, following a 60-city theatrical release, Crumb Catcher arrives on Apple TV and other VOD platforms starting August 20th via Doppelgänger Releasing.

read announcement at Starburst

by Isaac Feldberg

As the founder of Glass Eye Pix, writer-director Larry Fessenden has spent nearly four decades carving out a fiercely independent niche in American cinema—not only for himself, but also for the array of talented artists whose careers he’s supported through his storied New York film studio. 

Since “No Telling,” his first feature on film, Fessenden has plumbed the depths of human psychology and interrogated our relationship to the natural world within chilling, atmospheric horror features. To that end, “No Telling,” sold internationally as “The Frankenstein Complex,” smuggled critiques of big pharma and animal testing into the body of a monster movie. “Habit” came next, its vampirism-as-disease allegory suffusing a despairing tale of alcohol dependency and urban decay in mid-1990s New York. 

In “Wendigo,” a family vacationing upstate encounters a Native American legend, Fessenden depicting family tragedy through a child’s eyes; in “The Last Winter,” an oil drilling crew succumbs to unstoppable forces in the Alaskan wilderness; and in “Depraved,” an Iraq war medic processes trauma by stitching together a man from body parts in a Brooklyn loft. Fessenden’s latest, the werewolf feature “Blackout,” is equally grisly and engaged, weighing civic responsibility and addiction issues alongside lycanthropic carnage. 

Though Fessenden founded Glass Eye to copyright his own films, it’s since expanded into an artists’ collective of sorts. Kelly Reichardt made “River of Grass,” her debut feature, with Fessenden starring, editing, and producing; he also produced “Wendy and Lucy” and executive-produced “Night Moves” and “Certain Women.” Ti West saw “Habit” in high school and kept asking about Fessenden while taking a class taught by Reichardt at the School of Visual Arts in New York. On her reference, West interned at Glass Eye; Feessenden produced his debut, “The Roost,” and others, up through “The House of the Devil.” For directors like Jim Mickle (“Stake Land”), Glenn McQuaid (“I Sell the Dead”), and James Felix McKenney (“Automatons”), Fessenden’s production banner has similarly been a safe haven from which to start. 

“I don’t even know what Glass Eye Pix is,” Fessenden confesses during a recent visit to Chicago in support of “Crumb Catcher,” the studio’s latest (out on VOD today via Doppelgänger Releasing). “It’s a place where filmmakers can come if I feel they have this spark of looking to use the genre to tell something personal, honest, and authentic. But that doesn’t mean there are any rules.”  

The feature debut of Chris Skotchdopole, who shares story credit with Fessenden and lead actor Rigo Garay, “Crumb Catcher” centers two newlyweds, Leah (Ella Rae Peck) and Shane (Garay), who travel to a remote estate in upstate New York for their honeymoon, only for two uninvited guests (John Speredakos and Lorraine Farris) to plunge the getaway into a bizarre, uncomfortable ordeal. A chaotic, high-speed collision of psychodrama and perverse tragicomedy, Skotchdopole’s debut reflects his past decade spent working under Fessenden at Glass Eye Pix in more ways than one.

Last month, Fessenden, Skotchdopole, Garay, and producer Chadd Harbold traveled to Chicago’s Music Box Theatre to introduce a screening of “Crumb Catcher” and participate in a post-film Q&A. Fessenden sat down that evening to discuss his own oeuvre and secret to nurturing the next wave of indie-horror iconoclasts.

Read Interview at RogerEbert.com 

“…an insanely impressive directorial feature debut for Skotchdopole.
It’s funny, bizarre, uncomfortable, and an absolute cringe-fest for all the best reasons.”
—Maggie Lovitt, COLLIDER

After a breakout 2 Month long theatrical run
at Alamo Draft Theaters and AMC Cineplexes and Driv-Ins across the country,
Skotchdopole’s thriller comes to your home through your favorite streaming service.

a DOPPLEGANGER FILMS release | a GIGANTIC PICTURES presentation | a GLASS EYE PIX production