Even in a genre like horror with many subcategories and aesthetics,
franchise fatigue is real. Here’s why the future of scary films is low-budget.

Larry Fessenden’s Blackout may make its 2023 debut, ushering in a new Monsterverse with a good old-fashioned werewolf flick. Even the most hotly anticipated franchise installment, Evil Dead Rise, is a continuation of what was once a low-budget cult favorite series. As fans look to these low-budget darlings for trend forecasting, they can expect to see more films falling into two camps: pure, old-fashioned fun with fewer metaphors than in recent films and chaotic, eerie, primal and atmospheric horror. And in another decade, perhaps the big box office release will follow suit.

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please enjoy a re-posting of “Scrooge”
as told with unwieldy hand puppets 
traditionally presented at the annual GEP debauch
here recorded remotely for absent friends during lockdown in 2020.

TBT: 2006, Fessenden, Ron Perlman, Connie Britton and Kevin Corrigan
spread holiday cheer after shooting THE LAST WINTER together in Iceland.

Happy Holidays from Glass Eye Pix!

Binge-view all 24 films from the 2008 and 2018 film fests,
featuring seasonal shorts by a wide array of Glass Eye Pals like
Jim Mickle, Ti West, Beck Underwood, Sarah Driver, Fessenden,
Mickey Keating, Voltaire, Joe Maggio, JT Petty, James McKenney,
Graham Reznick, Glenn McQuaid, Brahm Revel, Jenn Wexler, 
The Unwanted Houseguest, Chris Skotchdopole, authors, animators, artists and more!

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.

Watch trailer HERE

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…

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