Whoa, this looks rad as hell. Check out this The Spine of Night trailer for a rotoscoped fantasy/horror film that debuts at SXSW next week.
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The Depraved trailer announes Larry Fessenden's return to directing, with a reimagining of Frankenstein set in modern Brooklyn.
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Depraved, a new Larry Fessenden film inspired by Frankenstein, will mark the indie filmmaker's return to feature directing for the first time since 2013.
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In our Like Me interview, director Robert Mockler and producer/co-star Larry Fessenden talk about their excellent, scathing new thriller.
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The horror film We Are Still Here is in theaters and on VOD now; a great new trailer sells it with brutal efficiency. See the We Are Still Here trailer now.
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Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This…
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The horror anthology V/H/S did well enough that a sequel went into production pretty fast, and you can already see the red-band trailer for V/H/S/2 from Magnet. Now another Magnet-released anthology, The ABCs of Death, is also going to be followed by a sequel. The hook for The ABCs of Death was that the film…
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Next month, one of my favorite independent and more outspoken directors of late, Ti West, will begin shooting a follow-up to last year's breakout hit about Satanic Panic The House of The Devil. Filming on location in Connecticut (where THotD was also shot) and entitled The Innkeepers, the film is said to follow "the last two staffers…
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Following on from House of the Devil, his film about a young hipster girl very, very slowly walking up and down corridors and eventually crossing paths with possible 'Special Guest Star' devil worshippers, it seems that Ti West is to make another "truly terrifying" picture. One man's tedium is another man's terror, I suppose. Variety…
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An English-language remake of Juan Antonio Bayona's fantastic horror film The Orphanage has been in the works since that film's release two years ago. At first, we reported that producer Guillermo del Toro had chosen Wendigo director Larry Fessenden to helm the project, but those plans fell apart a few months after they were announced.…
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When I first saw The Orphanage at TIFF '07, the moment the credits rolled I started thinking about the remake. That's lame, yes, since there was plenty of good stuff to think about in the movie. It wasn't that I was desperate to see the film remade. But I could see how a remake might…
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When 2009 is reflected on later, it won't be the clunky, predictable Oscar-bait pics that standout but rather a new crop of outspoken auteurs that came into their own in '09 with stealthy, highly confident fare. A charged determination and can't-fail idealism is instilled in these directors that makes the filmmaking process once again exciting…
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The long threatened promised US remake of The Orphanage has found its director and, frankly, I couldn't be happier. Larry Fessenden is the man, and as well as signing on to helm this picture through production, he's already co-written the remake script with the original's producer, Guillermo del Toro. This is very possibly not going…
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