Glass Eye Pix

Glass Eye Pix is an independent film studio based in New York City, known primarily for producing horror films.[1][2]

Glass Eye Pix
IndustryEntertainment
Founded1985 (1985)
FoundersLarry Fessenden
Headquarters,
ProductsMotion pictures
Websiteglasseyepix.com

History

Producer Larry Fessenden founded Glass Eye Pix in 1985 in order to copyright his own films.[1][2] The name came from a glass eye one of his friends gave to him as a gift, combined with the old lingo from the trade magazine Variety which called movies "pix". The company eventually grew to encompass others' works as Fessenden began to mentor younger filmmakers.[3]

Glass Eye Pix's low-budget horror banner, Scareflix, was designed to create lean budgeted, auteur-driven films from new directors.[4] Scareflix productions include Glenn McQuaid’s I Sell the Dead, Ti West's The Roost and Trigger Man, James Felix McKenney's Automatons and The Off Season, and I Can See You and The Viewer by Graham Reznick.[5] In collaboration with Dark Sky Films, Fessenden and partners Peter Phok and Brent Kunkle also produced Joe Maggio's Bitter Feast,[6] Jim Mickle's Stake Land and James Felix McKenny's Hypothermia under the Scareflix banner.[5]

Recent Glass Eye Pix productions include Stray Bullets by Jack Fessenden, Like Me by Robert Mockler, Birth of The Living Dead by Rob Kuhns, Most Beautiful Island by Ana Asensio, The Ranger by Jenn Wexler, Depraved by Larry Fessenden and Foxhole by Jack Fessenden.

Outside of the horror genre, the company has produced films including Rick Alverson's The Comedy, Kelly Reichardt's Wendy and Lucy, and Ilya Chaiken’s Liberty Kid[5]

Glass Eye Pix has also produced over 50 episodes of the audio drama series, Tales From Beyond the Pale, created by Fessenden and Glenn McQuaid, and hosted by Fessenden.[7]

Films produced

Distributor only

  • The Eliminator (1979)
  • Lifeline (1981)
  • A Face in the Crowd (1981)
  • The Gods of Times Square (1999)

References

  1. "Filmmaker Magazine". Archived from the original on 2011-08-14. Retrieved 2011-02-02.
  2. New York Times
  3. Truitt, Brian (June 25, 2013). "Sunday Geekersation: The many horrors of Larry Fessenden". USA Today. Retrieved December 22, 2015.
  4. Kohn, Eric (15 April 2011). "A Kingmaker in the Realm of Cheapie Horror". The New York Times.
  5. "Glass Eye Pix company profile".
  6. Bloody Disgusting
  7. http://talesfrombeyondthepale.com/
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