Attn CHILLER FANS: Glass Eye Pix Founder LARRY FESSENDEN, GLENN MCQUAID w/I SELL THE DEAD October 26, 2012

Featuring an in depth, on stage conversation between Fessenden (The Innkeepers, Stakeland, I Sell the Dead), McQuaid (I Sell the Dead, VHS), and Dread Central's Paul Nomad (with possible SKYPE appearances from Angus Scrimm & Ron Perlman), and a screening of their collaborative effort, the Dickensian I SELL THE DEAD, a bumptious buddy pic about two no-luck grave robbers.

Dubbed a "modern day Roger Corman" by the New York Times, producer/director/actor Larry Fessenden has much more in common with foreign arthouse auteurs like Guillermo del Toro, a friend and longtime supporter, than he does with the current wave of American torture-porn directors. As founder of Glass Eye Pix (and its "no budget" arm, Scare Flix), Fessenden is known for producing smart, inexpensive "B list films with A list themes" (what the Village Voice calls "brains before blood"), mentoring a slew of young horror hot shots that include Ti West, Jim Mickle, and Glen McQuaid, the Dublin born director whose feature film debut is the period horror comedy I SELL THE DEAD.


Tired of tortured Tommy Hilfiger teens being passed off as horror? Looking for a smart, rollicking throwback to the heyday of Hammer & channel 11's Chiller Theater? Look no further...


Trained at the crooked knee of body thief Willie Grimes, Arthur Blake is arrested for a series of ghoulish infractions and now has "five hours to kill" before he loses his head, courtesy of the guillotine. Thus begins McQuaid's boozy buddy flick about two bumbling turn-of-the-century resurrectionists trying stay alive and make a living selling corpses in undead Ireland. Think Charles Dickens by way of Hammer Horror. Written, directed, designed and edited all by McQuaid, the film features Fessenden as producer and head grave-robber Grimes, and stars anarchist Ron Perlman, ring bearer Dominic Monaghan, and the tall man himself, Angus Scrimm.

The landmark Union County Performing Arts Center was built as a vaudeville venue-cum-silent film house in the early 1920s. In keeping with the film's necropolitan setting, horse drawn hearses and authentic period charnel carts will be parked/displayed out front.