From deadline.com:

Magnet Releasing is plotting more ABCs of Death following its 2012 high concept horror anthology. The sequel’s directors unveiled today at Cannes will include Oscar nominated animator Bill Plympton, Goya winning director Alex De La Iglesias (The Last Circus), and documentarian Rodney Ascher (Room 237), who lead a new lineup of international directors depicting assorted horrible ways to die. Also tapped to direct segments: Filipino filmmaker Erik Matti, whose On The Job debuts this week in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight sidebar, founder of Nigerian “Nollywood” cinema Lancelot Imasuen, Lithuania’s Kristina Buozyte and Bruno Samper (Vanishing Waves), Japan’s Sion Sono (Cold Fish), Vincenzo Natali (Splice, Cube), indie horror icon Larry Fessenden (The Last Winter), Marcus Dunstan (The Collection), France’s Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo (Inside, Livid), SXSW breakout E.L. Katz (Cheap Thrills), twin auteurs Jen and Sylvia Soska (American Mary), Israel’s Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado (Rabies, Big Bad Wolves), Julian Gilbey (A Lonely Place To Die), Brazil’s Dennison Ramalho (Ninjas, Love For Mother Only), Jerome Sable (The Legend Of Beaver Dam), and BAFTA nominated animator Robert Morgan (Bobby Yeah). Additional directors will be announced this summer. The 26th director will again be selected from a fan contest.

Below, get a first look at a new domestic poster for Chad Crawford Kinkle’s JUG FACE, starring Sean Young, Lauren Ashley Carter, Sean Bridgers, Larry Fessenden, and Daniel Manche. The film that made its world premiere at Slamdance 2013 (Kinkle’s script won the 2011 Slamdance Screenwriting & Teleplay Competition Grand Prize) will have its theatrical release later this summer.

In JUG FACE, the pit has spoken. Dawai, the potter of a backwoods community, has crafted a face on a ceramic jug of the person that the pit wants sacrificed. Ada, pregnant with her brother’s child, has seen her face on the jug and hides it in the woods, determined to save the life of her unborn. If she does not sacrifice herself however, the creature from the pit will kill everyone in the village until she does.

by Clark Collis

Filmmaker Larry Fessenden has been busy over the past few years working on his Tales From Beyond the Pale audio series, producing other folks’ movies (such as the post-apocalyptic vampire yarn Stakeland and Ti West’s The Innkeepers), and acting in an impressive array of projects, including this August’s fantastic home invasion horror-comedy You’re Next. But the indie-horror overlord hasn’t actually directed a film since 2006′s Ron Perlman-starring, eco-aware terror tale, The Last Winter. Now, Fessenden has broken the surface with Beneath — a tale of teens, a leaky boat, and a bloodthirsty, underwater predator — that the director made in cahoots with Chiller TV.

The film’s world premiere took place at this weekend’s Stanley Film Festival and you can check out the new trailer below.

Read the full EW article here.

Check out more coverage of the trailer at Fangoria and Shock Till You Drop.

by Eric Kohn

… Fessenden has embraced the cheesy premise and had fun with it while exploring just beyond its borders. A creepy old man whose presence bookends the drama, played by Mark Margolis, lends a dreamlike quality to the narrative that elevates its plot to an abstract level. With its reliance on ambiguity and mood, “Beneath” applies lo-fi aesthetics to an eerie, isolated chamber drama akin to Fessdenen’s last creepy outing, “The Last Winter.” Like that movie and “Wendigo,” the new film also involves a mythological creature only explained in part…

whole article here

The horror pic centers on a group of friends celebrating their high school graduation at a remote lake location. Things take a turn for the dire when they are confronted with a horrifying deadly underwater predator who tests the bonds of their friendship as they fight for survival. The group ends up stuck in the lake in a sinking boat with no oars. Paranoia soon sets in and the friends soon begin to turn on one another.

Take a look at the haunting poster below:

World Premiere: Stanley Film Festival, May 3rd, with Fessenden in-person.

When a bloodthirsty, underwater predator leaves a group of teens trapped on a leaking boat in the middle of a lake, the friends must choose between loyalty and survival in this monstrous morality tale.

BENEATH premieres May 3rd at 2:30pm, and Fessenden will be on the scene in-person. Check out BENEATH on the Stanley Film Festival website for more.

Check out the coverage on Bloody Disgusting.

AVANT-GARDE-ARAMA: NEW MOON
A tribute to the late downtown luminary performance artist Tom Murrin, aka Alien Comic, in celebration of his 27 years of performing in Avant-Garde-Arama.

Performances: April 12 + 13, 8pm | Tickets: $15
At the Abrons Playhouse at Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand Street, New York City
New York, NY – Curated by Salley May, Avant-Garde-Arama: New Moon is a tribute to the late downtown mentor and luminary performance artist Tom Murrin, who anchored the show for 27 years. This, the first Avant-Garde-Arama variety show since Tom’s death, will feature a stellar lineup of performances and video, featuring different artists each night!

FRIDAY APRIL 12
Hosted by Jonathan Ames and Dynasty Handbag
Featuring performances and video by Elevator Repair Service (excerpt from play by Sibyl Kempson), Syd Straw, The Naked Lady (Annie Iobst), James Godwin, Alice Klugherz, David Leslie, Cornelius Loy, and Julie Atlas Muz.

SATURDAY APRIL 13
Hosted by The Factress (Lucy Sexton) and Nurse Baby Asparagus (Mike Iveson)
Featuring performances by Unitard, Dr. Schüler & the Operating Theater Company, Jo Andres video: Diana Krall’s When the Curtain Comes Down, featuring Steve Buscemi, Laurie Berg, Andrew Schneider, Tigger! and the company of [title of show] and Now. Here. This.

Lobby installation by Love Everybody Movement (Heidi Dorow).
Virtual Lesbian Love Lounge by Lori E. Seid
And a film tribute to Tom Murrin by Larry Fessenden

Performances take place Friday, April 12 and Saturday, April 13 at 8pm at Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand Street, New York City. Tickets are $15 each and available online HERE.