Dir Jim Mickle (2010 98 min, red one, 2.35) Connor Paolo, Nick Damici, and Kelly McGillis
Martin (Connor Paolo) was a normal teenage boy before the country collapsed in an empty pit of economic and political disaster. A vampire epidemic has swept across what is left of the nation’s abandoned towns and cities, and it’s up to Mister (Nick Damici), a death dealing, rogue vampire hunter, to get Martin safely north to Canada, the continent’s New Eden.
New York Times critics’ pick —Jeannette Catsoulis NEW YORK TIMES
The American Horror Film of the Year —Todd Brown TWITCH FILM
The Mayhem is beautifully composed. The Performances are terrific. —THE NEW YORKER
Harrowing! Puts vampires back where they belong — in your nightmares, and at your throat!Rex Reed —-—NEW YORK OBSERVER
An ambitious hybrid, grafting the ethereal, landscape-driven, light-infused beauty and naïf narration associated with Terrence Malick onto a tale in which struggle against supernatural forces is just one challenge of coming of age—a trope that … hasn’t had such a sense of balance between the fantastic and the organic since the heyday of Joss Whedon … thick with a distinct mood—the sadness and exhilaration of having nothing left to lose—and the characters, in their desperation and drive, feel real. Fessenden may be producing the best brains-before-blood horror in North America today. —Karina Longworth THE VILLAGE VOICE
6PM I CAN SEE YOU Dir. Graham Reznick. (2008 97 mins, hvx) Cast: Ben Dickinson, Duncan Skiles, Christopher Paul Ford, Heather Robb, Olivia Villanti, Larry Fessenden
Three aspiring ad-men take a weekend in the wilderness, brainstorming for their first assignment: to overhaul the image of a once popular cleaning product, Claractix. While in the woods, a girlfriend’s mysterious disappearance sparks a harrowing descent into unreality.
“I CAN SEE YOU heralds a splendid new filmmaker with one eye on genre mechanics, one eye on avant-garde conceits and a third eye for transcendental weirdness.” —The New York Times
“Without a doubt one of the most intriguing and well-crafted low-budget horror films in recent memory.”—Fangoria
“Ultimately opting for Brakhage over butchery, by turning vision itself into a mind-frying source of anxiety.” —Village Voice
8PM AUTOMATONS James Felix McKenney (2006 83 min, B&W) Christine Spencer, Angus Scrimm, Brenda Cooney
Somewhere in the distant future, The Girl is alone. She is the last of her people, the others having died in a generations-long war that the girl continues to fight with the assistance of a group of antiquated robot helpers and soldiers.
“Robot radness achieved! Budgets are for bitches.” —Nathan Lee The Village Voice “Mr. McKenney’s claustrophobic technique becomes his way not only of accommodatinghis small budget, but of evoking the film’s themes of isolation and denial.” —S. James Snyder The NY Sun
“If you’re into retro tech, or just retro sci-fi, or damn good MiSTie fodder, then you’re going to love Automatons.” —Steve Anderson Film Threat
10PM Satan Hates You Dir. James Felix McKenney (2011 94 min, hvx, 1.78) Don Wood, Larry Fessenden, Christine Spencer, Angus Scrimm, Reggie Bannister, Michael Berryman
We follow Marc (Don Wood) a homicidal maniac driven by demons buried deep within his soul, and Wendy (Christine Spencer) Marc’s polar opposite who lives life fast and hard without a second’s thought to the consequences. Their separate paths will eventually cross, but will it be on the road to salvation or the highway to hell?
“works as a sneakily sincere re-imagining of Christian scare tactics as a punch-drunk passion play for wayward hedonists” —Simon Abrams
From Paradise Factory: Fan favorite Larry Fessenden returns to Paradise Factory to celebrate 40 years of Glass Eye Pix with an all night horror movie marathon bound to leave your skin crawling.
Glass Eye Pix, the independent film shingle responsible for The Roost, The House Of The Devil, Wendigo, The Last Winter, Habit and countless others, is celebrating its 40th anniversary at the IFC Center starting October 28th. The night before, join us at Paradise Factory to kick off the celebration with an evening celebrating Glass Eye Pix’ grindhouse scareflix brand.
The Nov 7th Glass Eye Pix Palooza-Con will offer many new releases including a brand new 88 pg comic book from Glass Eye Comix and We’re Wolf Films: THE DAMNED AND THE DANGEROUS written by Glenn McQuaid and Ted Geoghegan Artwork and lettering by Brahm Revel.
GLASS EYE PIX PALOOZA-CON Erupts in Manhattan NOVEMBER 7
The ONE DAY ONLY EVENT hosted by Ideal Glass Studio Coincides with The IFC Center’s “OPTIC NERVE” Celebration of the 40-Year-Old Indie Production Company
NYC OCT 20 — Glass Eye Pix is proud to announce the first-ever Glass Eye Pix Palooza-Con (aka GEP-CON), a one-day-only brick-and-mortar store located in the heart of Manhattan celebrating 40 years of Larry Fessenden’s iconic NYC production company. The convention / party / pop-up store happens in conjunction with the IFC Center’s Optic Nerve screening series, which celebrates 40 years of Glass Eye Pix, featuring select work by Ti West, Jim Mickle, and Glenn McQuaid, as well as Larry Fessenden’s acclaimed Monster Quadrilogy.
GEP-CON will take place at Ideal Glass Studios, located at 9 West 8th Street, from noon through 11PM on November 7th. The store will feature mountains of Glass Eye Pix films, including Blu-Rays and 4K discs from Vinegar Syndrome and Dark Sky Films, hard-to-find VHS tapes, and other assorted rarities. Also for sale will be Blu-Rays from the new Glass Eye Pix video label, featuring early work by Ti West, James Felix McKenney, and Graham Reznick.
Glass Eye Pix Palooza-Con will feature curated displays of costumes and props from GEP films going back to the 1990s. The event’s walls will feature posters chronicling Glass Eye’s decades-long journey, dating all the way back to Fessenden’s time in the late 1980s, chronicling East Village performance artist and stuntman David Leslie (aka The Impact Addict).
In addition to films, GEP-CON will sell brand new t-shirts and handcrafted Wendigo figurines sculpted by James Felix McKenney. Also available are CDs and vinyl editions of various scores, Fessenden’s pub rock band Just Desserts, and other rarities. A back catalog of Glass Eye Comix will be purchasable, alongside the debut of The Damned and the Dangerous, a thrilling new one-shot graphic novel from Glenn McQuaid and Ted Geoghegan, illustrated by the legendary Brahm Revel.
Proving it’s far more than simply a pop-up event, a number of eye-catching digital displays throughout Glass Eye Pix Palooza-Con will feature mini-documentaries, rare behind-the-scenes footage, creepy Christmas films, sizzle reels, short films, and rare features in the auditorium section of the venue. Attending, signing, and yes, even working the register at GEP-CON will be a litany of Glass Eye founders, filmmakers, alumni, and extended family members.
As evening descends upon the space, GEP-CON will shift focus to live events, including a performance of a brand-new episode of Glenn McQuaid and Larry Fessenden’s much-celebrated audio drama series, Tales from Beyond the Pale, featuring a cast of very special guests. Music and additional acts will follow, and the evening will end with a rousing birthday celebration of the Glass Eye Pix legacy.
Optic Nerve: A Tribute to Glass Eye Pix runs from October 28 through November 3 at Manhattan’s IFC Center (323 6th Avenue). Fessenden’s acclaimed latest, Trauma or, Monsters All, arrives in cinemas the following day.
Glass Eye Pix Palooza-Con located at Ideal Glass Studio (9 West 8th Street), will take place from noon until 11PM on Saturday, November 7, 2026. It celebrates the company’s wonderful accomplishments, while offering the public a unique opportunity to witness GEP’s legacy first-hand. Larry Fessenden founded Glass Eye Pix with a singular desire – to make independent-minded cinema. Walking through this convention / party / pop-up store will offer an intimate look behind the curtain of Glass Eye Pix’s stunning body of film work, created at a time and place in the heart of New York City.
Dark Sky Films has unveiled the trailer for Larry Fessenden‘s (Habit) creature feature, Trauma Or, Monsters All. It’s packed full of monsters, and looks like everything fans have come to expect from the singular filmmaker’s work.
Produced by Glass Eye Pix, the film serves as the culmination of Fessenden’s decades-long reinterpretation of the classic Universal monsters, bringing together the vampire, Frankenstein’s monster, and the werewolf from his acclaimed films Habit, Depraved, and Blackout into one haunting contemporary story.
In the film, visiting writer Cassandra (Laëtitia Hollard, currently appearing in NBC’s acclaimed medical drama The Pitt) arrives in the quiet upstate town of Talbot Falls to research a book on George Washington Carver while working at the local library alongside her new friend Agnes (Aitana Doyle). After Cassandra publishes an article exposing the town’s unsettling past, buried secrets begin to surface as a werewolf, vampire, and Frankenstein creation emerge from the shadows, forcing the community to confront generations of fear, guilt, and suppressed trauma.
Vampires, werewolves, Frankenstein’s monster, and loads of creature feature mayhem? Fessenden appears to have created the dream monster mashup that Universal has struggled to get together for years. And my monster-loving heart is filled with antici…pation.
The ensemble cast features Laëtitia Hollard, Aitana Doyle, Addison Timlin, Alex Hurt, Alex Breaux, Larry Fessenden, John Speredakos, Marc Senter, Micheál Neeson, Joshua Leonard, Barbara Crampton, James Le Gros, with appearances by Emily Bennett and Toby Poser, alongside a host of returning Glass Eye Pix collaborators.
Said Fessenden, “I’ve spent my career reimagining classic monsters because they reveal something deeply human about us. Trauma Or, Monsters All brings those stories together into one film about memory, identity, and the wounds we carry. I’m grateful to reunite with Dark Sky Films, whose support of independent horror has made them the perfect home for this project.”
Added Greg Newman, EVP of Dark Sky Films, “Our partnership with Larry Fessenden and Glass Eye Pix spans many years and some of the most influential independent horror films of their era. Trauma Or, Monsters All is another bold, uncompromising work from one of the genre’s true visionaries, and we’re proud to bring it to audiences.”
Experience Trauma Or, Monsters All when the film releases in theaters on November 4th with an opening at the IFC Center in New York, followed by a Los Angeles opening at Lumiere Music Hall and additional markets.
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