A new album featuring the Wharton Tiers Ensemble (Tiers on drums, Matt Hunter on bass, guitarists Kevin Kim, Perry Masco, Luke Schwartz, Jim Santo, Rinny Petrillo, and Fessenden on sax.)
Tiers is a long time GEP collaborator, having produced and played in the band Just Desserts, and recorded songs for EXPERIENCED MOVERS before that. He is best known for producing and working with Sonic Youth, Dinosaur JR., Helmut, White Zombie, Laurie Anderson, Swans, Lunachicks, and Glen Branca among others.
Fessenden in Portland Oregon at the famed Overlook Hotel seen in Kubrick’s THE SHINING.
2017, the year Glenn McQuaid and Fessenden presented TALES FROM BEYOND THE PALE Live at the Overlook Film Festival. On the bill was McQuaid’s Reappraisal and Fessenden’s In The Wind. Both available on the Tales From Beyond the Pale Podcast.
The Last Winter has a surprisingly great cast for a low-budget indie film — Ron Perlman, Connie Britton, Zach Gilford, Kevin Corrigan, and others star in this quiet, mysterious little genre picture from the great director Larry Fessenden. The movie follows the development of an ice road through the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for an oil company, and a combination of environmental scientists and corporate oil workers who investigate the area and discover some strange, disturbing happenings.
Larry Fessenden Is an Indie Horror God
The Last Winter is a more coldly subdued horror film, less of a slow-burn than a slow-freeze. It’s all about atmosphere here until the end, and filmmaker Larry Fessenden is an expert at that. The director behind masterpieces like Habit and Wendigo creates another horror allegory here, a look at environmental doom that is subtle enough to just slightly shade the increasingly intense and hopeless events of the film. It’s a dark, mysterious classic of winter horror.
#3 WE ARE STILL HERE
A grieving couple, Anne and Paul Sacchetti, decide to move to a new home in rural New England to try to deal with the death of their son. However, Anne soon starts to see visions of her son trapped inside the home and visions of mysterious charred figures in the basement. When the residents start to visit and ask them to leave, the two are drawn into an evil truth about the town and the house they moved into.
A True Horror Film on All Fronts
Ted Geoghegan’s 2015 film We Are Still Herewill instantly capture the attention of horror fans with its 80s aesthetic and homage to supernatural films of the era. Moreover, the production benefits from the inclusion of indie royalty in the horror genre, including Barbara Crampton, in what is probably one of her best roles to date. Moreover, it stars the aforementioned Larry Fessenden, who has appeared in everything from low-budget shockers like Family Portraits: A Trilogy of America to respected cult classics like Ti West’s House of the Devil. We Are Still Here is a well-rounded horror film that does not lean too heavily on nostalgia to weave its haunting story. The movie also has a wonderfully chaotic and gory climax. Watch for free on Tubi and Peacock and rent or buy on digital platforms.
Yet another trio of Dark Sky Films titles have made their way onto SCREAMBOX, All of them have a taste for blood…
First, Stake Land, the Jim Mickle-directed vampire classic that set the stage for his cannibal horror We Are What We Are and the Netflix series “Sweet Tooth”.
In the film, “America has fallen. A vampiric scourge sweeps the nation, turning brother on brother and parent on child as the blood-hungry beasts take deeper and deeper hold upon the land. It’s hard for the survivors to know whether to be more afraid of the creatures themselves or the violent religious groups that have sprung up in response, but there is clearly only one choice: fight or die.
“Connor Paolo (Alexander, Mystic River) stars as Martin, a teenager whose family has been slaughtered. His traveling companion is a taciturn, hardened vampire killer known simply as Mister (Nick Damici), and together they trudge across the land in search of the rumored safe haven of New Eden.“
Drawing on the post-apocalyptic frenzy described by Richard Matheson (author of the novel I Am Legend) and George A. Romero, Stake Land is a road movie with fangs. It co-stars new horror movie icon Danielle Harris (Halloween, Hatchet II) as a pregnant young woman and Kelly McGillis (Witness, Top Gun) as a traumatized nun who are picked up by Martin and Mister along their journey. The movie was produced by indie horror director Larry Fessenden(The Last Winter, Wendigo)!
Lastly is Bitter Feast, a culinary classic produced by indie horror director Larry Fessenden(The Last Winter, Wendigo)!
In Joe Maggio’s film a food critic can dish it out, but can he take it? Revenge is on the menu for notorious blogger J.T. Franks (The Blair Witch Project‘s Joshua Leonard) when he publishes a rumor that leads to the demise of TV chef Peter Grey’s culinary empire.
“Grey (James Le Gros) kidnaps the writer, confines him in a remote cabin and presents him with a series of deceptively simple food challenges – from preparing a perfect egg over-easy to grilling a steak precisely medium rare – punishing him for anything less than total perfection.”
“Bitter Feast is an exploration of the creative impulse gone tragically and ferociously awry.”
Revenge is a dish best served to order – raw and bloody on SCREAMBOX!
Longtime Glass Eye Pix collaborator Joe Maggio (BITTER FEAST, LAST RITES OF JOE MAE, Tales from Beyond the Pale and numerous unproduced works) will premiere his latest feature, BLISS, second in a potential trilogy started with VIRGIL BLISS (2001), at the Slamdance Film Festival 2024.
Bliss (USA) Director: Joe Maggio Producers: Paula Killen; Matthew Myers; Larry Fessenden An opioid addicted fugitive living off the grid in the desert canyons north of LA plays a twisted game of cat and mouse with a sexually repressed holy-roller in search of her missing sister. Cast: Clint Jordan; Faryl Amadeus; Juan Fernandez World Premiere
In this episode, we chat with Actor and Director Larry Fessenden about his independent horror films and how they showcase the impending doom of present societal issues. His latest film, BLACKOUT, made its U.S. Premiere at this year’s Woodstock Film Festival. Fessenden is an actor, writer, director, and producer and the head of the NY-based independent production shingle Glass Eye Pix with the mission of supporting individual voices in the arts.
Glass Eye Pix is the fierce independent NYC-based production outfit headed by award-winning art-horror auteur Larry Fessenden with the mission of supporting individual voices in the arts. Read more...
