Former Glass Eye intern Nick Funess releases two feature films this year. His debut flick YOUNG BLONDES, STALKED AND MURDERED lands distribution with Anchor Bay, available to watch on various VOD platforms and several theatrical engagements lined up. His second feature THE HEDONIST, starring Funess (with a cameo by GEP Intern Alumn Santiago Saba Salem) premiered at Panic Fest 2025, continues its festival circuit.
Screen Anarchy on THE HEDONIST: There’s a layered sense of play, melancholy and almost dangerous uncertainty throughout The Hedonist that works perfectly for this movie about a young man we sympathize with but wouldn’t actually want to meet. It’s a difficult and distinct tonal balancing act that builds on the promise of his first feature and only makes me more excited to see whatever Funess does next.
Screen Anarchy on YOUNG BLONDES, STALKED AND MURDERED: Young Blondes, Stalked and Murdered is perhaps more tragedy than slasher. And rather than combine them, Funess makes them clash: murder isn’t the cause of tragedy, it’s the possibility of not being murdered that’s tragic.
“ENGROSSING AND FRIGHTENING… Director Douglas Buck takes inspiration from both Cronenberg and ’70s Italian horror to make SISTERS his own.” Fangoria
THE WORLDWIDE UHD PREMIERE 3 DISC COLLECTION INCLUDES BONUS SOUNDTRACK CD
In this reimagining of the Brian De Palma classic, director Douglas Buck (FAMILY PORTRAITS: A TRILOGY OF AMERICA) takes the film’s themes of disturbed bloodlines to startling new extremes for the first time ever in UHD: When a persistent reporter (Oscar® nominee Chloë Sevigny of BOYS DON’T CRY and AMERICAN PSYCHO) investigates a controversial doctor (Oscar® nominee Stephen Rea of THE COMPANY OF WOLVES and THE CRYING GAME), she’ll uncover a case of murder, manifestation and identical twins (the American film debut of model/actress/singer Lou Doillon) with a horrific secret. Dallas Roberts (The Walking Dead) and William B. Davis (The X-Files) co-star in this “bold take on the original” (Devil Dead), now scanned in 4K from the original camera negative with 4+ hours of Special Features and a Bonus Soundtrack CD.
DISC 1: 4K UHD (FILM + SPECIAL FEATURES)
Audio Commentary With Director Douglas Buck And David Gregory Of Severin Films
Archival Audio Commentary With Douglas Buck
Trailer 1
Trailer 2
DISC 2: BLU-RAY (FILM + SPECIAL FEATURES)
Audio Commentary With Director Douglas Buck And David Gregory Of Severin Films
Archival Audio Commentary With Douglas Buck
Deleted And Extended Scenes
Archival Making-Of
Trailer 1
Trailer 2
Glass Eye Pix Presents Tales From Beyond The Pale
“Hidden Records” By Douglas Buck Featuring Kevin Cline And Tony Todd
Performed Live July 27, 2015
THE BROKEN IMAGO – Promo For Unmade Douglas Buck Feature
“Electric Blue” By Pornographie Exclusive – Music Video Directed By Douglas Buck
DISC 3: SOUNDTRACK CD
Exclusive Booklet By Claire Donner Of The Miskatonic Institute Of Horror Studies
Disc Specs:
Runtime: 92 mins
Audio: English 5.1, English Stereo
4K Video: Dolby Vision
Closed Captions
Region Free
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
*All foreign-language featurettes are subtitled in English.
Limited Edition Slipcover
SISTERS was executive Produced by Fessenden and Produced by the iconic New York Producer Ed Pressman. The disc features a Tale From Beyond The Pale performed live in Montreal and a short film featuring Fessenden shot in 2024
A priest comes to the aid of a dominatrix when she accidentally summons a demon in the trailer for The Demonatrix.
Hannah Fierman (V/H/S) and Aurelio Voltaire (The Velocipastor) star with Doug Bradley(Hellraiser), Larry Fessenden (You’re Next), and Nivek Ogre (Repo! The Genetic Opera) as the demon.
Featuring special makeup effects by Norman Cabrera (Hellboy, The Cabin in the Woods), the indie horror film is written and directed by Voltaire and Jeff Ferrell.
It follows Lita (Fierman), a dominatrix who holds a sham seance in an attempt to make extra money. When she unwittingly summons an evil incubus (Ogre), the priest who presides over the church across the street (Voltaire) along with his demonologist mentor (Bradley) mobilize in an attempt to send the demon back to Hell.
The Demonatrix will have its US premiere in New York next month before hitting the road for festivals and conventions around the country:
12/5 – New York City Horror Film Festival in New York, NY
1/31 – Sacramento Horror Film Festival in Sacramento, CA
2/20 – Days of the Dead in Atlanta, GA
3/13-14 – Jacksonville Horror Film Festival in Jacksonville, FL
3/21 – Creature Feature Weekend in Gettysburg, PA
4/11 – Bonebat Comedy of Horrors Film Festival in Seattle, WA
5/2-3 – Crypticon in Seattle, WA
5/29-31 – Spooky Empire in Orlando, FL
The team aims to screen the film at least once a month in a different city throughout 2026.
#10 DEPRAVED Larry Fessenden’s modern interpretation relocates Frankenstein to contemporary Brooklyn, grounding the story in trauma, medical experimentation, and psychological fracture. The Creature’s development is slow and methodical, and the film pays close attention to how identity forms under the influence of others. His creator, a former military medic, is driven by a cocktail of idealism, guilt, and ambition, mirroring modern anxieties about technological overreach and moral clarity. Fessenden’s choice to focus on the Creature’s fragmented memories adds a raw immediacy to his struggle for selfhood. Depraved is intimate and unsettling, proving that Shelley’s questions about responsibility and the human cost of creation remain as urgent now as they were two centuries ago.
Glass Eye Pix invites you to count down 25 Days till Christmas with this creepy Advent Calendar. What better way to celebrate the Holiday season than with a daily peek behind the doors and windows, nooks and crannies of this mysterious doll village assembled by artist and stop-motion animator Beck Underwood? See vintage dolls and Santas, stuffed critters and misfit toys, all to delight and tease in this merry celebration of Christmas mischief.
Larry Fessenden & Tom Laverack, aka Just Desserts is releasing their fourth album, ‘Curtains’ 38 years after their debut LP, Sentimental War arrived in 1987, almost to the day. Fessenden, a full-time filmmaker, producer, writer and actor, and Laverack, a singer-songwriter, co-founder of Sojourn Records, and a director of operations at a large behavioral health agency, have never stopped making music. But post-COVID, the high school pals dug back into where they left off working on songs before the pandemic. Coalescing in Fessenden’s barn upstate, the album took shape in the way one might ideally imagine a music project going – exciting reconnection after years of not playing, collaborating on the music and refining ideas, Fessenden, the king of the bridge, helping finish incomplete songs.
Enter Mark Ambrosino and his Madhouse Studio. Mark and Sojourn Records produced the last JD full length album ‘Lost in Love’, and with him behind the kit and the board, Mark helped JD enter into their fourth decade with vigor.
“I remember walking by the car wash on Fourth Avenue in Sunset Park, a strikingly ugly part of Brooklyn, when I had the idea of writing a song called ‘Curtains’. I think I wrote Larry an email and said, ‘Our next album is going to be called Curtains. I just have to write the song.’ The fact that we actually did it, thanks in large part to Larry shepherding the project forward, well it makes me very happy.”
Additionally Laverack adds, “Until we really got deep into it, I don’t think I understood how much this record is about being alive, ironically, in a positive way. Larry used to say he was a disappointed optimist, and I might add I’m a disappointed idealist. So sadness, angst, heartbreak is all there, but so are the odd moments of enlightenment you didn’t know you were capable of experiencing. Many times this occurs musically here, like a counter theme to some of the lyrics. There is a mystery and magic to being alive. As Larry sings, ‘it’s so Tender.’
And then life ends as inexplicably as it began.”
Photos: Laverack and Fessenden; guest guitarists Jack Petruzzeli and Jack Fessenden; Will Holshouser on accordian Laverack is so into it
‘Curtains’ is the fourth full length album from a NYC duo that has made music since 1977.
Tom Laverack is a singer-songwriter, co-label owner and former social worker who has recorded four solo records along with albums, EPs and singles as Just Desserts. He dabbles in writing prose and poetry and is excellent at Excel.
Larry Fessenden is an acclaimed independent film director and producer, overseeing his company Glass Eye Pix since 1985, and instrumental in producing, promoting and launching the careers of a host of filmmakers. Larry’s films include No Telling, Habit, Wendigo, The Last Winter, Depraved and Blackout, all of which feature the music of Tom Laverack.
‘Curtains’ is a post-Covid reconnection of two old pals who worked out the details of this record in Larry’s barn in the Catskills. A few songs have origins in sessions dating back to 2017 and one dates back to 1989. The songs and sound of the album evoke a lived in feeling of relative oldsters that haven’t quite grown up but are feeling the cinch of time.
Recorded, produced, mixed and chaperoned by Mark Ambrosino at his storied studio The Madhouse in Queens, NY and featuring Ambrosino on drums and former Just Desserts session players Dave Richards and David Morgan on basic tracks, the album features an array of very special guests who contribute to the immersive soundscape.
Insist the creators: “While the title does refer to the imminent ‘dirt nap’ it is actually an appreciation for being alive. Welcome to our world. Come stay a while.”
Please find previous Just Desserts music available on streaming services and on CD, LP and cassette!
Dave Richards, Laverack, Fessenden, Mark Ambrosino, David Morgan Nov 20, 2023
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