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We’ve just updated the gallery with a new poster from I Sell the Dead. Enjoy!

Revisionist horror favorite Larry Fessenden (director of HABIT, WENDIGO and THE LAST WINTER) returned to Montreal’s just-wrapped Fantasia film festival this year with two new films from his indie-horror production company Scareflix: Ti West’s incredibly atmospheric ‘80s horror tribute HOUSE OF THE DEVIL (a smash success at Tribeca and a late but great addition to the Fantasia program; see review here) and Glenn McQuaid’s period horror-comedy tribute to British ‘60s/’70s horror classics, I SELL THE DEAD (another Fango rave; see here; I SELL THE DEAD goes into limited theatrical release this Friday and is concurrently available as a video-on-demand from IFC Films).

Fessenden was on hand with co-producer Peter Phok and first-time feature director Glenn McQuaid for their award-winning I SELL THE DEAD, a one-of-a-kind dark adventure film depicting the daily lives and supernatural woes of two lowlife body-snatchers, played by Fessenden himself and Dominic Monaghan of LORD OF THE RINGS fame.
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18th century justice has finally caught up to grave robbers Arthur Blake and Willie Grimes. With the specter of the guillotine looming over him, young Blake confides in visiting clergyman Father Duffy, recounting fifteen years of adventure in the resurrection trade. His tale leads from humble beginnings as a young boy stealing trinkets from corpses, to a partnership with seasoned ghoul Willie Grimes as they hunt creatures unwilling to accept their place in the ground. The colorful and peculiar history of Grimes and Blake is one filled with adventure, horror, and vicious rivalries that threaten to put all involved in the very graves they’re trying to pilfer.

Bloody Disgusting: You are part of the Scareflix team, did the film develop within that group or was this something you brought to them?

Glenn McQuaid: It was based on a short film I did six years, which I wrote and directed, called The Resurrection Apprentice. And I met Larry Fessenden and asked him to be on the project. He didn’t produce it, he just the lead actor on it. And that was the start of my collaborations with Larry, as a director to his acting. I also performed visual effects for Ti West on his film the Roost, and some of the other guys, like James McKenney, the whole Glass Eye troupe of filmmakers. And I was just sort of helping them out, either with visual effects or title sequences. But I just always wanted to get a feature film off the ground, especially through Glass Eye because I think Larry just brings out something special in the filmmakers he works with. So I basically just twisted Larry’s arm and made him produce the movie.
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One of this year’s quirkier horror offerings is opening in limited release on August 7th and we’ve got the official trailer from distributor IFC Films. Below you can watch the latest preview for I Sell the Dead from director Glenn McQuaid. The film follows Larry Fessenden and Dominic Monaghan, grave robbers who land in all sorts of trouble. Fun stuff – definitely check it out if it comes your way! If it doesn’t reach a theater near you, you can catch it August 12th On Demand.

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One would think that being a grave robber was a hard enough career. But in writer-director Glenn McQuaid’s bumptious horror comedy, “I Sell the Dead,” it’s a one-way ticket to indentured servitude and terrifying encounters with the undead.

Set in a particularly fog-shrouded corner of 19th century Ireland, the film is a buddy story about a pair of no-luck grave robbers, crusty old drunk Willie Grimes (Larry Fessenden in fully whiskered, slovenly oaf mode) and impish joker Arthur Blake (a particularly puckish Dominic Monaghan), who discover that successfully stealing corpses is the least of their concerns.

The result is smart, gruesome and inventive enough to more than please niche genre fans who are likely to spread the word to fellow admirers of gallows humor.
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Good news for those waiting to see this Dominic Monaghan-Ron Perlman horror-comedy I Sell the Dead. After touring festival for over a year and leaving their fans wanting, they’ve finally found US distribution, courtesy of IFC Films. IFC plans to release the film this August both theatrically and on Video on Demand services.

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The gallery has been updated with new photos of Dom attending a screening of Wolverine in Hollywood, CA. View them all here. Enjoy!