Yellow Veil Pictures and Glass Eye Pix have teamed up for a new horror movie titled Blackout, which has received its first poster. Alex Hurt will star as fine arts painter Charley Barrett, who becomes convinced he is the werewolf plaguing the town of Talbot Falls whenever the moon is full. This news comes courtesy of two Bloody Disgusting articles.
One of the horror movies Fessenden is known for is Habit, in which he starred as the main character in addition to his work behind the camera. It’s a vampire movie known for its “gritty 90’s New York atmosphere.” Blackout will likewise serve as a “portrait” of Hudson Valley and the surrounding area, consisting of Woodstock, Olivebridge, Andes, and Kingston.
“I am interested in finding new truths in the classic monster tropes of my youth. The essence of each creature dictates the milieu of the film, and of course, the werewolf is both out of control and regretful so that duality shaped my story. I am excited to work with Yellow Veil again, they understand my filmmaking and have been fierce advocates,” said filmmaker Larry Fessenden, who boasts a long list of credits in horror movies, indie movies, and horror indie movies.
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Previously, Yellow Veil Pictures and Glass Eye Pix teamed up for Fessenden’s previous film, Depraved, a Frankenstein-inspired movie starring David Call, Joshua Leonard, and Alex Breaux. Together, alongside Blackout and Habit, Fessenden has formed “a triptych of classic-monster homages,” as Fangoria calls it. Something that he’s wanted to do for a long time.
“My approach was to blend a naturalistic docu-style with the mythological tropes of the werewolf story, an ongoing interest to blend realism with stylization, and to fuse themes of contemporary society with classic monster movie clichés.”
Check out the official poster for Blackout below:
“Yes, I’m competing with Marvel and Blumhouse to create my own Monsterverse, but at a very different price-point.”
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Blackout Was Inspired by Werewolf by Night
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One of Fessenden’s influences for Blackout was the Marvel series Werewolf by Night, which was recently adapted as an MCU Halloween Special last year. In terms of the werewolf’s appearance, Blackout’s lower budget meant that they couldn’t do something in the vein of The Howling or An American Werewolf in London, so instead, special effects artists Brian Spears and Peter Gerner drew influence from Universal makeup artist Jack Pierce.
Other cast members in the film consist of Addison Timlin, John Speredakos, Michael Buscemi, Jeremy Holm, Joe Swanberg, Barbara Crampton, and James Le Gros. All of whom have worked with Fessenden in the past. If not in movies he directed, then in movies where they acted alongside him.
“Alex changed the makeup considerably. We were going to go with a lot more fur, a lot more hair all over him, and then he came in completely jacked and ripped. We were going to make a full body suit for him, but we scaled back mainly based on Alex’s performance. When he’s wolfing out and doing these shakes he’s been doing, and contorting his neck and body, if you put hair on that, you lose all that definition and detail,” said Spears.
