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I Sell the Dead, the first feature by Glenn McQuaid, opens with grave-robber Arthur Blake (Dominic Monaghan) telling a priest (Ron Perlman) about how he met friend and co-worker Willie Grimes (Larry Fessenden, reprising his role from McQuaid's original short, The Resurrection Apprentice, on which this movie's based). Told with lengthy flashbacks, the story follows Arthur and Willie from regular grave-robbing to "ghouling." The difference? Grave-robbers will only steal the dead, but ghouls will steal "just about anything." They find vampires, aliens, zombies — all sorts of undead creatures and spooks, for which they can make a whole lotta moolah.

Everything's going swimmingly until Fanny (Brenda Cooney, who also appeared in The Resurrection Apprentice), Arthur's lady friend, gets involved. Smelling big money, she convinces Arthur and Willie to embark on a dangerous mission: steal a gig from a rival gang, the House of Murphy — Cornelius (John Speredakos), the man so mean...

Larry Fessenden and his production company, Glass Eye Pix, along with their low-budget horror sideline, Scareflix, have been making some of the best indie horror to come out in recent years.

From Ti West’s The Roost in 2005 and the highly acclaimed The House of the Devil in 2009 to Glenn McQuaid’s current period horror/comedy I Sell the Dead, voted Best Indie Film of 2009 by Rue Morgue magazine, Fessenden is on course to being one of the most in-demand producers/directors as well as actors in the 21st Century (check out his IMDb resume – he’s been in everything from the mainstream hit The Brave One with Jodie Foster to the cult horror favorite Session 9).

Dread Central recently interviewed the affable Fessenden about I Sell the Dead as well as future projects which, according to Larry, just may include his script for the remake of The Orphanage.

Elaine Lamkin: First off,...

This Tuesday, March 30th, is the long awaited DVD/Blu-ray release date of Glenn McQuaid's I Sell the Dead, and our trilogy of interviews with its cast and crew continues with the one -- the only -- Angus Scrimm, who portrays the character of Dr. Vernon Quint in the film.

Elaine Lamkin: Thank you for taking time to do this interview with me, Angus. First question – how did you find yourself playing Dr. Quint in I Sell the Dead? What was the attraction? And how would you describe the good doctor, whose exit from the film is both hilarious and well-deserved?

Angus Scrimm: In January, 2008, this ruddy-cheeked Irish fellow with a perpetual twinkle in his eye turned up at the Burbank, California, studio where Larry Fessenden was filming the infamous rant I contributed to Jim McKenney's Automatons DVD "extras." Undeterred by what he saw, he offered me the role of Dr.

The stellar I Sell the Dead (review here) is finally hitting DVD and Blu-ray on March 30th, and in honor of the occasion Dread Central will be running a series of interviews with several members of the cast and crew. First up is writer/director Glenn McQuaid.

Elaine Lamkin: First, I have to say how surprised I was when during the behind-the-scenes featurette on the DVD someone mentioned that The Scratcher pub in the East Village, which doubled for the interiors of The Fortune of War pub in I Sell the Dead, is owned by Irish actor, Karl Geary, whom I interviewed for his role in The Burrowers! The film world, particularly the indie film world, can be very small.

Glenn McQuaid: It's a small world all right, especially when you're working in the horror genre. Karl's a fellow Dubliner, too, but it's through his acting that I know him.

We've been telling you about Glen McQuaid's I Sell The Dead for almost a year now, and the much-buzzed-about film is finally making it's way to the masses.

Currently playing NYC's Quad Cinema and soon to hit Los Angeles and Cambridge, I Sell The Dead will open Nationally tomorrow On-Demand via IFC In Theaters. To give you a look inside the film, IFC sent over an exclusive making-of featurette created by producer/star Larry Fessenden that can be viewed below along with further details on where you can see the film.

A Statement from the Director of I Sell The Dead:

A few years back I made a short film called The Resurrection Apprentice. A simple story of a young boy’s first night on the job as a grave-robber. I’ve always been fascinated with the fog-drenched, blood-soaked films of Amicus and Hammer. The short was an homage to that sort of thing.

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...

Though the marquee has now gone dim on the third annual Toronto After Dark Film Festival, the eight-day cult cinema celebration managed to close out its run with one final slice of silly, gory, low-budget, high-concept gold. Though not the fest’s best offering—that honor goes to Tomas Alfredson’s brilliant Let The Right One In—Irish-American writer/director Glenn McQuaid’s joyously ghoulish I Sell The Dead (which had its North American premiere there) was perhaps the fan favorite—a deliberately wonky throwback to Aip’s modestly produced yet opulent Roger Corman/Edgar Allen Poe pictures of the 1960s, with more than a dash of broad, Monty Python-esque absurdity.

Expanded from The Resurrection Apprentice, a classy—and considerably more somber—Hammeresque short McQuaid made in 2005 (and which I enjoyed very much), I Sell The Dead adopts a flashback framework, beginning at the end with notorious Victorian-era graverobber Willie...