Michelle Williams and Kelly Reichardt come together once
more in the charming trailer for Showing Up.
Watch the trailer to SHOWING UP, and then revisit a Glass Eye favorite WENDY AND LUCY,
an early work from Reichardt and Williams.
December 16, 2022
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GEP pal Kelly Reichardt releases trailer for SHOWING UP
December 15, 2022
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“Going All The Way” unspools at The Quad, NYC Dec 16-18
Mark Pellington, (THE MOTHMAN PROPHESIES)
who was tapped to direct Fessenden and Guillermo del Toro’s script
of THE ORPHANAGE remake,
spent COVID remaking a movie of his own!
In 1997, Mark Pellington made his feature directorial debut with “Going All the Way,” based on Dan Wakefield’s novel of the same name. Telling the story of two Korean War veterans returning to their hometown of Indianapolis in the 1950s, the film featured an impressive cast of then-unknowns — Ben Affleck, Jeremy Davies, Rachel Weisz, Rose McGowan, and Nick Offerman among them. The film screened at Sundance, got solid reviews and a distribution deal… and then disappeared for 25 years. Pellington, while proud of the film, never felt like he quite captured what he had loved about Wakefield’s book, and the various edits the movie went through — from a three-hour-plus rough cut to the 112-minute Sundance version to the 97-minute movie that was ultimately released in theaters — left him feeling like he had taken the guts out of the story…
read the full article at indiewire
December 5, 2022
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Looper celebrates the work of GEP pal Owen Campbell
Why RJ From Ti West’s X Looks So Familiar
Fans of “X” surely noted that most of Owen Campbell’s co-stars in the film — including Martin Henderson, Mia Goth, and Jenna Ortega — are hardly strangers to the horror genre realm. “X” is not Campbell’s first gig in the horror game either. In fact, Campbell featured in a few of the better genre offerings of the past decade long before Ti West booked him as his film’s ill-fated cameraman. One of those films is Larry Fessenden’s horribly overlooked Frankenstein fable “Depraved.” And yet another was 2017’s marvelous coming-of-age creeper “Super Dark Times.”
Read full article HERE and by all means check out Super Dark Times, a true indie gem!
Unmentioned in the article, Campbell’s Glass Eye Pix turns in Jack Fessenden’s Riding Shotgun, Joe Maggio’s Bitter Feast, and the Tales From Beyond The Pale episodes The Hole Digger, Ram King, Like Father Like Son, not to mention the seasonal puppet show, Scrooge.
Check out young Owen with his brother Tobias in the TALES Radio Diary
November 30, 2022
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Every Horror Game By Supermassive Games, Ranked: UNTIL DAWN comes in at #1
1) UNTIL DAWN: There are plenty more things that make Until Dawn the best horror game from Supermassive games, but the one that stands out in the light is its emotional value. When Until Dawn was released in the year 2015, it changed the way gamers looked at the studios. Despite the existence of previous decision-changing horror games, Until Dawn altered the perception of the genre to an extent.
If The Quarry was targeted at the modern generation Until Dawn was a complete homage to the 80’s and 90’s Cabin in the Woods (Not to be confused with the movie of the same name), horror slasher genre. Not only did it manage to create a cinematic experience, the addition of stars like Rami Malek, Hayden Panettiere, Meaghan Martin, Brett Dalton, Jordan Fisher, Nichole Bloom, and Peter Stormare made it impossible to forget.
November 28, 2022
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Psychology Today: “Why Are More Kids Watching Horror Films?”
Longtime GEP pal Steven Schlozman
tells it like it is in Psychology Today essay
(with a shout-out to The Last Winter)
- There is evidence that more kids are watching horror films.
- Kids are increasingly worried about their future.
- We can use horror films to better understand and address the fundamental anxieties of our youth.
I’m a child psychiatrist and lately, I’ve noticed a clear uptick in the number of kids who seem to find solace in horror movies. There is evidence supporting this observation that the average age of horror audiences is younger than the overall moviegoing crowd. Because I’m a consult-liaison psychiatrist, these children and adolescents don’t really know me the way a long-term patient could. When we meet, they are unlikely to know of my love for this genre.
My job is to see these kids when they come into the hospital, and more and more, these kids volunteer their love of and willingness to talk about horror without my even asking them about the kind of media they consume. When I do ask, I never ask, “Do you like horror films?” I just ask what kinds of movies, shows, or internet content they prefer, and I’m certain there are more saying horror now than at any other time in my career.
That these kids mention horror more often might be the result of the increasing acceptance of the genre. It also might be related to the ample availability of streaming media. Why are kids turning to horror films more than they used to?
Let’s start by looking at the state of modern horror films. There’s no doubt that these stories are enjoying a resurgence, and most agree that this resurgence is related to the breadth of the genre itself. Horror films can be impressively timeless and uncomfortably timely. Their prescience is often unrivaled. The boldness and breadth of the narratives of horror stretch wider and more daringly than any other genre of onscreen storytelling.
These films can be transgressive or conforming. They can be gory or show not even an ounce of gore. Horror films make taboos understandable and make that which is, on the surface, totally acceptable and uncomfortably taboo. Find me another genre with this kind of versatility.
Two currently entirely different films–The Banshees of Inisherin and Barbarian – have both been referred to as horror. One is a dark tragicomedy about friendship, and the other is a gonzo nightmare of the strange way we wander willingly into other people’s houses as part of the Airbnb revolution. Two films, on their surface, could not be more different, but they still conjure the word “horror” in critics’ analyses. What, then, do these films have in common?
Both stories ask us to ponder puzzling and troubling predicaments that humanity conjures over and over again. Given how many different kinds of horror exist, it’s no wonder that people have a hard time defining the genre itself. Part of this is related to our cultural tendencies to remove stories from the horror category when these films are considered sophisticated or nuanced. Calling a good film a horror film has only recently oozed into our accepted cultural sensibilities.
I’ve been celebrating this genre for a while. I’ve spoken at academic and non-academic gatherings about the power of this kind of storytelling. I’ve written two horror novels and had the opportunity to meet with horror film directors. I guess I’m saying all of this to establish my horror chops (so to speak), and that’s because I’d like to make a few observations.
November 23, 2022
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WENDY & LUCY featured on 5 Films That Influenced ‘Bones and All’
Writer David Kajganich shares five films he referenced for Bones and All. The scope of the list, which spans multiple genres and decades, is a testament to the ambition of the film that he and Luca Guadagnino have made.
It’s a film – and a filmmaker – I love dearly. Michelle Williams plays a woman who’s trying to head up to Alaska, where economic opportunities might be more plentiful. And she ends up waylaid in this town because she has to steal food to feed her dog. She’s separated from her dog. And it’s a very emotionally precise, very observant, tonally very rich film about a few days in the life of this woman who is on her own in America. For obvious reasons, I thought it would be useful as a touchstone to my work while I was writing the script.
November 21, 2022
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BOOM! Studios announces new series from GEP Pal Brahm Revel
BOOM! Studios announced today HARROWER, a brand new four-issue limited series from Spread creator and co-creator of The Strange Talent of Luthor Strode, writer Justin Jordan, with highly acclaimed artist Brahm Revel (Guerillas), about a horrifying ancient legend that lurks within a small, forgotten town, available in stores February 2023.
Brahm Revel has provided storyboards, design sketches, comic book adaptations, and animations for numerous projects including WENDIGO, THE ROOST, MANITOU VALLEY, THE LAST WINTER, BENEATH, and I SELL THE DEAD. Revel has also designed posters and advent calendars for GEP and penned episodes of the CREEPY CHRISTMAS FILM FEST and TALES FROM BEYOND THE PALE.
November 12, 2022
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Indiewire: del Toro’s got a little list
Guillermo del Toro Reveals the Directors He Wants to Hire for ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’ Season 2: ‘I Have a List’
After 30 years of success, the “Shape of Water” director is turning his attention to helping upcoming genre filmmakers.
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Following the success of the show’s debut season, del Toro is already thinking ahead to the directors that he wants to bring on board for Season 2 if the series is renewed.
“I have a list,” he said. “For example, we tried to get Jayro Bustamente before and he couldn’t because of COVID. When you think about Mexican filmmakers, there’s Isaa Lopez. She was going to direct one of the episodes when she got ‘True Detective’ and she couldn’t do it. Boots Riley wrote and was going to direct one episode and he got his series greenlit. I could go and spoil the entire second season for you, but I’m not going to do that.”
He continued: “Larry Fessenden is one hundred percent at the very very top of my list for a second list. Larry is one of those names that back in the days of the Spirit Awards I fought for him to be nominated with ‘Habit,’ which I think is phenomenal. I’ve been in touch with him since then. We were very close to remaking ‘The Orphanage.’”
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