June 18, 2023
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Happy Father’s Day from GEP
June 16, 2023
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Fessenden & Holm on WithoutYourHead podcast talking BROOKLYN 45 and Monsters
Hang out with Jeremy Holm, Fessenden and the folks at WITHOUTYOURHEAD.COM
June 14, 2023
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GEP Pal Kareem Savinon in new Steven Soderbergh mini-series FULL CIRCLE
GEP pal Kareem Savinon walks the red carpet at the Tribeca premiere of Steven Soderbergh’s mini-series FULL CIRLE, streaming on HBO July 13th. Savinon is featured in GEP projects LATE PHASES, JUNK SCIENCE (From Season 3 of Tales From Beyond The Pale) and a GEP favorite, LIBERTY KID (also streaming on HBO).
Congrats Reem!
June 12, 2023
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Fessenden appreciation at HORROR OBSESSIVE
When you think of horror filmmakers what names do you think of? John Carpenter, Wes Craven, Jordan Peele, James Wan, and Dario Argento are the typical answers you’ll get. When I think of horror filmmakers the first name that always comes to mind is Larry Fessenden. Without independent horror we wouldn’t have some of the absolutely amazing films we have today, and Larry Fessenden is the personification of grassroots, guerilla style, independent filmmaking. If you look up Larry on Google it will have him listed as an American actor. While that is true, his achievements in the world of horror really lie within his filmmaking and the awe-inspiring oeuvre he has crafted over his 60 years on this earth. In ’86 Larry would create and helm Glass Eye Pix, this is where Larry would have his hand in tons of beloved genre films throughout the next nearly four decades.
June 9, 2023
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Ted Geoghegan’s BROOKLYN 45 premiers TODAY on Shudder; Movieweb gushes
Larry Fessenden Kills It
This is where Brooklyn 45 makes one of its boldest choices, and completely nails it with an extended monologue from Clive about his wife’s death and his search for meaning, from religion to metaphysics and beyond. Fessenden is incredible here, the camera enamored with him as he threatens to veer off the path of sanity before swerving back into something more human.
Fessenden is known as a cult director who created some of the best indie horror films of the past few decades thanks to films like Habit, Wendigo, and The Last Winter, but he’s actually a very underrated actor, beyond the performances in his own films. He has a kind of beat-up Jack Nicholson disposition, but with an aloof Gen X hipness, even at 60. He plays a very different type of character in Brooklyn 45, a tight-ass military man, but there’s something similarly unique about the character that makes him almost automatically more interesting than anyone in the room. It’s a truly brilliant performance.
Read Full review by Matthew Mahler at Movieweb
The Supernatural Horrors Are Just the Beginning of ‘Brooklyn 45’
This film is the horror equivalent of His Girl Friday, the characters bouncing back and forth constantly from monologue to monologue — including a spectacular piece from star Larry Fessenden, whose grief-laden Lieutenant Colonel Hockstatter is the centerpiece of the action. But make no mistake, the rest of the cast flourishes as well. Each are given moments to shine when reflecting on the horrors of war, whether it’s Anne Ramsey’s Marla reliving her days as a military interrogator or Jeremy Holm’s scene-stealing Archibald Stanton as secrets are uncovered about what he did in the name of patriotism.
June 8, 2023
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TBT: 20 Sept 2022: Crampton and Fessenden on the set of BLACKOUT
Barbara Crampton and Fessenden on the set of BLACKOUT, Fall 2022.
Congrats to Barbara for her new movie SUITABLE FLESH by Joe Lynch,
premiering at the Tribeca Film Fest
June 6, 2023
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Luca Balser’s WHAT DOESN’T FLOAT featuring Fessenden gets distro deal
New York Anthology Movie ‘What Doesn’t Float’, Starring & Produced By Pauline Chalamet, Gets Distribution Deal With Circle Collective
Arthouse distro Circle Collective has acquired worldwide rights to Luca Balser’s (Uncut Gems) NYC anthology film What Doesn’t Float, starring and produced by Pauline Chalamet (Sex Lives of College Girls), and shot by DPs Sean Price Williams (Good Time) and Hunter Zimny (Good Time).
The film is set to make its world premiere at the Lighthouse Film Festival this month and will be released theatrically in the U.S. from September with an international fest tour planned in the fall/winter.
What Doesn’t Float stars Chalamet, genre filmmaker and actor Larry Fessenden (Depraved), and Keith Poulson (PVT Chat) as New Yorkers at their wit’s end. Script comes from Shauna Fitzgerald and Rachel Walden (Funny Pages) also produces.
June 5, 2023
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Daily Dead: June 16, THE RANGER & HELLRAISER unspool at Pride Fundraiser
Join Daily Dead on Friday, June 16th for a Pride Watch Party Fundraiser,
Featuring HELLRAISER (2022) with Joe Lipsett and THE RANGER
with Kay Lynch and GEP Alumn Jenn Wexler.
