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Glass Eye Pix Press Releases

2008

Kelly Reichardt's film WENDY AND LUCY, produced by Glass Eye Pix and Film Science, will be picked up for distribution by Beastie Boy Adam Yauch's new film company Oscilloscope and will be released theatrically in December of this year. Wendy and Lucy has recieved warm response from reviewers since it's screening at the Cannes film Festival, where the film recieved the highest honor for its canine star Lucy, the Palm Dog. Read the Press Release. Recent festival reviews: " classically simple, deeply engaging storytelling" - CINEMATICAL "a moving cry of despair for its alienated lead character" - SCREEN DAILY "superb central performance of Michelle Williams" - VARIETY "one of my favorites in the festival." - IFC

Glass Eye Pix exclusive: Ron Perlman talks about becoming an actor

 FEAR ITSELF UPDATE
"Skin and Bones" to air Thursday 31 July at 10 PM

Doug Jones, John Pyper-Ferguson

July 18: 2 new interviews with Fessenden: FEAR ZONE: talking about doing FEAR ITSELF and releasing THE LAST WINTER DVD. ICONS OF FRIGHT: an exhaustively illustrated, phrase for phrase transcription of a booze-soaked interview with the lads at Icons. Damn, they put together a pretty looking page with lots of movie stills, cool reference photos like this Werewolf By Night cover, and screen grabs like this one from the "making of THE LAST WINTER."

17 July - Our old pal Ron Perlman--
He's Number 1!

July 15 - Moriarty Offers His Thoughts And A Sneak Peek For The July 24th Episode Of FEAR ITSELF!
on AINT IT COOL NEWS July 14 - Glass Eye Pix comrade Douglas Buck (SISTERS, FAMILY PORTRAITS) resurfaces
with news of his next project THE BROKEN IMAGO: Dread Central has the interview.

July 13 - I CAN SEE YOU reviewed at DreadCentral.com "3 knives of 5: one of the most indefinable films I think I've ever seen" —--Johnny Butane

JULY 11: A big Glass Eye Pix toast to Ron Perlman, Doug Jones and Guillermo Del Toro for their new movie HELLBOY II, opening today to warm reviews. Doug Jones speaks to the press about his career and the FEAR ITSELF episode directed by Fessenden in which he stars. Out of the Mouth of Abe: Hellboy II's Doug Jones Finally Gets To Speak

 

July 4: Rave reviews from SHOCK CINEMA!!! for THE LAST WINTER... "Delivering an icy blast of cerebral eco-horror, it's packed with heavy ideas, spectacular cinematography and a mounting sense of dread." ...and TRIGGER MAN! "Skillfully executed, with naturalistic performances and characters that challenge viewer expectations, this type of smart, economic filmmaking effectively hauls the no-frills, low budget, B-movie aesthetic into the 21st century."

Monique Dupree, Larry Fessenden and AJ Khan in SATAN HATES YOU

For Immediate release: BROOKLYN, NY, July 3, 2008 Glass Eye Pix and MonsterPants Movies are proud to announce that principal photography was completed in New York City on Tuesday for SATAN HATES YOU, written and directed by James Felix McKenney.

July 2 - Fessenden interview with Colonel Crypt keeper Scott Perry

Fessenden FEAR ITSELF episode officially scheduled for Thursday, July 24 at 10PM.
announced at dreadcentral and shocktillyoudrop

Glass Eye Pix at the Fango Convention, Saturday 21 June: producer Peter Phok, director Glenn McQuaid, frequent collaborator the great Angus Scrimm, Fessenden and James McKenney gather for the festivities. On stage, Fessenden grills Graham Reznick and McQuaid, and McKenney describes his latest project SATAN HATES YOU.

Our freinds at Fango are hosting a little weekend get-together in New Jersey this Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Please join Fessenden who will be promoting NBC's FEAR ITSELF as well as the DVD release of THE LAST WINTER.

Fessenden will be joined by a stable of Scareflix filmmakers from Glass Eye Pix:

James Felix McKenney will be showing clips from SATAN HATES YOU, now shooting;

Graham Reznick will show a trailer from I CAN SEE YOU, now in festivals;

and Glenn McQuaid will show a teaser for the much anticipated I SELL THE DEAD.

Hope to see you there at 2:45 Saturday 21 June!!

Other luminaries from recent Glass Eye projects are also attending the festivities: Look for

Tom Noonan (HOUSE OF THE DEVIL, Angus Scrimm (SATAN HATES YOU, I SELL THE DEAD),
J.T. Petty (BLOOD RED EARTH) Doug Buck, Greg Lamberson etc etc. check the schedule!

JUNE 16
FINAL PHASE OF PRINCIPAL PHOTOGRAPHY COMMENCES ON
James Felix McKenny's SATAN HATES YOU
a glass eye pix / monsterpants movie

June 14: Fango announces Fessenden and Scareflix directors to attend Fangoria Convention on Saturday 21 June

JUNE 14: 'Eco-Horror': Green Panic on the Silver Screen? Fessenden Featured on NPR's All things Considered: WAMU 88.5 FM out of the Nation's Capitol at 5PM EST. Excerpts of a conversation between Fessenden and Arts Reporter Neda Ulaby on horror movies with environmental themes.

Fessenden rides HELLBOY II release coattails: Fans and the press are buzzing about the July 11 release of Guillermo Del Toro's HELLBOY II. The Hellboy stars make mention of recent collaborations with Fessenden, also coming to light in July: Perlman stars in Fessenden's THE LAST WINTER (out on DVD July 22) and the extraordinary Doug Jones (HELLBOY's Abe Sapien, PAN'S LABYRINTH's Pan and Pale Man) stars with minimal makeup in Fessenden's episode of the NBC horror anthology FEAR ITSELF entitled SKIN AND BONES (currently scheduled to air July 24).

30 May: Chicago Tribune waxes poetic about House of the Devil

27 May 1:34 A.M. principal photography on Fessenden's
Fear Itself episode SKIN AND BONES wraps.

May 26: The final SATAN HATES YOU mini-shoot wraps in Brooklyn!

The final phase of production begins June 16th!

May 25: Press release announcing DVD street date for THE LAST WINTER

“9.5/10 stars: it's damned near a perfect film”
The Movies made me do it

And check out these alternate and foreign DVD box art designs
on the updated THE LAST WINTER graphix page!

Meanwhile, available now for rent, The Last Winter has a strong presence on the shelves of Blockbuster.

Fear in a Cold Climate: An Interview with Larry Fessenden

NEW YORK TIMES May 24 - Cannes Journal

Although she probably would have won audiences over anyway, the American director Kelly Reichardt (“Old Joy”) was more favorably placed on Thursday evening with “Wendy and Lucy,” which showed in the more hospitable context of Un Certain Regard, a category for younger filmmakers. In the space of a few years, Ms. Reichardt — who offered a few shy words of hello before the screening, flanked by a cluster of male colleagues and her lovely star, Michelle Williams — has become one of the most interesting young American filmmakers. Her latest follows Wendy (Ms. Williams), a girlish woman with watchful eyes and a hesitant smile, who, with her mutt, Lucy, is on her way to a new life in Alaska with too little money when she runs into trouble in Oregon. With uninflected realism, an attentive camera and no weeping strings, Ms. Reichardt makes palpably, tragically real what it means to be struggling at the very edge of the economic abyss. Like “Old Joy,” which tracks two friends on a short trip to the country, “Wendy and Lucy” is political to the bone but without any of the usual grandstanding. As of Thursday night’s screening, though distributors were circling the room, this pitch-perfect triumph had yet to attract an American buyer. It will. —MANOHLA DARGIS

May 20:

Blockbuster Exclusive now available for rent
with director's commentary and 5 minutes of extras.
Available to buy July 22 With director's commentary and 2 hours of extras!!

May 19: Angus Scrimm and Glass Eye in the City of Angels.
The Tall Man performs duties for I SELL THE DEAD
and SATAN HATES YOU in L.A. Satellite shoot.

13 MAY - As reported in FearZone, the trailer for NBC's new horror series FEAR ITSELF (featuring an Episode directed by Fessenden) is now on line here

May 11- Wendigo showing up in used bins and still earning blog-posts

May 6 - I CAN SEE YOU news on dreadcentral.com

 
May 5 - pre-production starts on
NBC's FEAR ITSELF episode 9 "SKIN & BONES"

May 4:

Screen Daily reports on Memento Films adding WENDY AND LUCY to its sales slate.
Read all about it!

Fessenden sited in treatise on what makes us scared:
Horror: The Cultural Significance of Fear

 

The Last Winter screens in Minneapolis, Minnesota SATURDAY APRIL 27 At the Bell Museum of Natural History "SEEING CLIMATE CHANGE" FILM FESTIVAL "The Last Winter," which will be shown on Saturday evening, is a film that Matteson feels will be most interesting for the student body. The film "captures the sense of eeriness surrounding our change in environment," says Matteson, "and the sense that something isn't right." She believes this fictional film embodies the tone that surrounds dialogue focused on climate change. article

APRIL 23 - GLASS EYE PIX AT THE CANNES FILM FESTIVAL Glass Eye Pix and Film Science co-production WENDY AND LUCY, a film by Kelly Reichardt starring Michelle Williams and Will Patton (and featuring an appearance by Fessenden) will have it's world premier at the Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section. The film is produced by Spirit award winning producer Neil Kopp, Anish Savjani and Fessenden.

April 22

2 AM, April 17: Ti West's HOUSE OF THE DEVIL wraps.

 It's three skulls for the SISTERS DVD!

Read the full review at Fangoria.com!

April 13 SATAN HATES YOU news
on cinema-suicide and Dread-central

April 11: The fine folks at TWITCH give a nice overview of FEAR ITSELF, and a rundown of the directors involved in the NBC series which premieres in May.

APRIL 10:

April 9 - Fango keeping up-tp-date with posting of THE LAST WINTER DVD cover art!
And Dread Central has some Fessenden news here and here.

APRIL 8 - The News is out
ShockTillYouDrop.com has been informed Carpenter will not direct Skin & Bones.
Instead, Larry Fessenden is stepping in to helm this episode of NBC's FEAR ITSELF

APRIL 4: Fangoria reports on a few more folks that Satan hates!

Michael Berryman, Debbie Rochon and Max Brooks join the cast of SATAN HATES YOU!

MARCH 31: Ti West's 'House of the Devil' Gathers Inhabitants

 
Wednesday 26 March: Shoot Day 1
Ti West on set of HOTD

THE LAST WINTER: The Graphic Novel

In stores this Wednesday, March 26 from Image Comics!
Read all about it at Fangoria.com!

 
Team Glass Eye in undisclosed location during
last week's stealth visit to NYC by Our Man in Mexico.

March 22 - Fessenden earns a few new fans according to recent web posts: WENDIGO "Writer-director-editor Larry Fessenden really did a superb job here, and while this is the first film of his I've seen, I hope it won't be the last." Gorginfoogle's Movie Guide  THE LAST WINTER "an almost perfect horror film. I've only seen this film once but I have a strong feeling that after repeat viewings I think this may be in my top ten. " skfan, horror-movies.ca

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TRIGGER MAN -- Music Composed by JEFF GRACE

• Sound clips and more info available here.

• Limited CD edition (500 copies) distributed by
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• Download album in 320kbit mp3 format here.

• Download album on iTunes here.

DVD Releases for Tuesday, March 18th!

Ti West's ScareFlick TRIGGER MAN on DVD from Kino International	Jim Mickle's MULBERRY STREET from After Dark Films.

March 11: Douglas Buck's SISTERS arrives on DVD today! from Image Entertainment!

March 5 - House of the Devil production report at IndieWire!

    March 1: Satan Hates You posting at creature corner too!

Feb 29: Still more Glass Eye Pix news at Fangoria!
PHANTASM cast members Reggie Bannister & Angus Scrimm
reunite in James Felix McKenney's SATAN HATES YOU.
Read all about it!

Feb. 28: Fangoria reports on Gregory Lamberson's new work, including the book
CHEAP SCARES! HOW TO MAKE A LOW BUDGET HORROR FILM,
featuring Fessenden and several other low-budget auteurs.

Feb. 27: A.J. Bowen spills the beans to Fangoria about
his House of the Devil co-stars
Mary Woronov & Tom Noonan!

 LIBERTY KID on TV!

Premieres on HBO LATINO Thursday February 28
and on HBO FAMILY Monday, March 10!

 

DATE/TIME	CHANNEL
Thu 2/28 10:00 PM	HBO LATINO - EAST
Fri 2/29 01:00 AM	HBO LATINO - WEST
Fri 2/29 11:00 PM	HBO LATINO - EAST
Sat 3/1 02:00 AM	HBO LATINO - WEST
Sun 3/2 11:30 PM	HBO LATINO - EAST
Mon 3/3 02:30 AM	HBO LATINO - WEST
Mon 3/10 12:35 AM	HBO FAMILY - EAST
Mon 3/10 03:35 AM	HBO FAMILY - WEST
Wed 3/12 08:45 PM	HBO FAMILY - EAST
Wed 3/12 11:45 PM	HBO FAMILY - WEST
Thu 3/13 11:30 AM	HBO LATINO - EAST
Thu 3/13 02:30 PM	HBO LATINO - WEST
Mon 3/17 04:45 PM	HBO LATINO - EAST
Mon 3/17 07:45 PM	HBO LATINO - WEST
Tue 3/25 08:15 AM	HBO LATINO - EAST
Tue 3/25 11:15 AM	HBO LATINO - WEST
Sun 3/30 02:10 AM	HBO FAMILY - EAST
Sun 3/30 05:10 AM	HBO FAMILY - WEST
Mon 3/31 02:00 AM	HBO LATINO - EAST
Mon 3/31 05:00 AM	HBO LATINO - WEST

For more showtimes and updated schedule, visit HBO.com.

R.I.P.

FEb 22 Glass Eye Pix and friends highlighted in this month's Fangoria, now on newstands! Articles on forthcoming DVD releases: Doug Buck's SISTERS and Jim Mickle's MULBERRY STREET Review of James McKenny's AUTOMATONS mention of Ti West's TRIGGER MAN

House of the Devil cast continues to assemble: Ti West film will star Jocelin Donahue, AJ Bowen and Greta Gerwig . More to come...

February 14

Happy Valentine's Day from Glass Eye

Nice list of "alternative romantic" films includes HABIT

February 13:
AJ Bowen joins the cast of THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL. Read all about it at ICONS OF FRIGHT!

 

02/07/08 PRESS RELEASE: DARK SKY FILMS announces THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL from writer/director TI WEST Story picked up by Fango's Mike Gingold, who ads useful embellishments...

Also in today's news: Monaghan in 'Pet' project Dominic Monaghan has landed the lead role in Edna McCallion's psychological thriller "Pet" for MGM.

Feb 6 - news flash from South of the Border:
THE ROOST still on the New Releases shelf
at a Blockbuster in Southern Mexico!

Tuesday 2/5/08 THE BRAVE ONE out on DVD featuring Fessenden as Sandy Colmes, first blood VOTE TODAY in the USA!

Feb 3 - our man in Mexico discovers The Last Winter
bootleg at the Tuesday Market in San Miguel

LIBERTY KID HITS LOS ANGELES!!! Opens February 1st AT THE LAEMMLE GRAND,downtown LIBERTY KID will also be featured on L.A.'s 89.3 FM KPCC's Film Week with host Larry Mantle on Friday February 1 at 11:30am

Tuesday 29 January: AUTOMATONS out on DVD!! buy or rent it TODAY!

Reviews for the AUTOMATONS DVD:

"Automatons is a winning science-fiction prize with so many facets worthy of praise...
Arguably his most important film to date, Automatons is a tour de force for director James Felix McKenney."
-- Dustin McNeill, DVDACTIVE

"One of the most impressive independent projects I've seen in a long time...
One of the most skilled and ambitious shoestring budget movies I've seen to date."
-- Ed Demko, BLOODTYPE ONLINE

"Far more original than such hints of homage suggest.
The “This is How Humanity Dies” tagline should be rephrased to state “This is how true speculative storylines are handled”.
That’s this small film’s greatest achievement."
-- Bill Gibron, POPMATTERS

 
Jan 26, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico:
Glass Eye Pix well represented in local video store horror shelves:
CABIN FEVER (sequelized by Gepix's Ti West)
MIMIC 3 by RED EARTH director JT Petty,
and Fessenden's own WENDIGO (ESCALOFRIO)

JAN 17 News from Douglas Buck on the Japanese theatrical release of SISTERS, his remake of the Brian DePalma film. Mark your calendars: Douglas Buck's SISTERS out on DVD in the U.S. March 11! The film stars Cloe Sevigny, Stephen Rea and introducing Lou Doillon as Angelique. SISTERS was produced by Ed Pressman and executive produced by Fessenden.

LIBERTY KID EXTENDED AT THE PIONEER, NYC Wed. 1/16 @ 9pm Thurs. 1/17 @ 9pm Fri. 1/18 @ 7pm Sat. 1/19 @ 5pm Sun. 1/20 @ 5pm Mon. 1/21 @ 7pm Tues. 1/22 @ 9pm Wed. 1/23 @ 7pm Thurs. 1/24 @ 9pm

New York Nights at the Pioneer. JAN 6: I CAN SEE YOU sneak preview screening with producer Peter Phok and director Graham Reznick
JAN 9: opening night of LIBERTY KID with director Ilya Chaiken and actor Al Thompson.

LIBERTY KID opens Wednesday January 9, at The Pioneer! ONE WEEK ONLY!

CRITIC'S PICK: "There's not a single wrong note in 'Liberty Kid,' ... Tender, wise and deceptively low-key... Quietly accumulates emotional power... Not until the graceful, perfectly judged conclusion do we realize how much we care." -- NEW YORK TIMES CRITIC'S PICK: "Chaiken's subtle narrative touch, along with the exceptionally strong performances of leads Al Thompson and Kareem Savinon, gives this one a rare emotional pull." -- NEW YORK MAGAZINE "the least explicit yet most affecting film yet to depict New York in the weeks and months after the towers fell." -- NEW YORK SUN “Poigniant. There is no shortage of films abo ut the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, but there is a lack of good ones. The low-budget indie "Liberty Kid," is one of those that succeeds.” NEW YORK POST "Epic and resonant… to her eternal credit, Chaiken keeps her movie grounded in her characters, allowing Thompson and Savinon's true-to-life performances to carry us through…" -- Bilge Ebiri, NERVE "an uncommonly acute, deftly played drama of the New York working class" -- Nathan Lee, VILLAGE VOICE "Packs a visceral punch" -- Maitland McDonagh, TV GUIDE "There may have been two or three dozen American films that struggled to make sense of 9/11 and its aftermath, but none of them have done more with less than 'Liberty Kid'.. engagingly told, wonderfully acted and shot with an eye for the beauty of the Big Apple's unglamorous outer-borough neighborhoods." -- Andrew O’Hehir, SALON.COM

Graham Reznick's I CAN SEE YOU, scareflix #5,
will have a public sneak preview at the Pioneer Theater in NYC
6 January 2008 at 4:45 PM | 3rd street at Avenue A

THE LAST WINTER appears on a few more Best of the Year lists: Dread Central & The Seventh Art blog & Film Freak Central.net. Also gets hammered for being left wing crapola here.

Jan 5 - Dom talks about chameleons and cockroaches instead of Willie and Arthur. Thanks for keeping it real DM!

Jan 4 - Oops, Dom shifted to Friday... hmmmmm.

Jan 3 - If you still needed an excuse to support the WGA friendly shows of Letterman and Ferguson,
be sure to tune in to the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson TONIGHT on CBS at 12:35AM
whose guest will be I SELL THE DEAD's very own Dominic Monaghan. (will Dom mention ISTD...? Inquiring minds want to know...)

Jan 2 - THE LAST WINTER called year's best in 2007 roundup on FEARZONE.COM and HORRORREVIEWS.COM

THE LAST WINTER screens Friday and Saturday 4 & 5 January Real Art Ways | 56 Arbor St. in Hartford CT. Showtime each day is at 9:30 p.m.

Sneak peek January 6 In Festivals this Spring	In Theaters January 9 On HBO starting in February	DVD In stores January 29	DVD In stores March 18	Blockbuster exclusive May 20 Available everywhere July 29