Habit (1997)
Jun 18, 2001Modern Vampire
Larry Fessenden film in which he plays a man who gets into a relationship with a vampire woman. Low key and with an emphasis on kitchen sink realism, leading to some quite striking scenes
Glass Eye Pix
Wendigo (2001)
Apr 9, 2001Backwoods Stalking/Native Indian Spirit
Early film from Larry Fessenden about a family and a Native American spirit. Much brooding build-up but not much payoff (*)
Zombie Honeymoon (2004)
May 6, 2015Zombie Relationship Drama
The surprise in seeing this after the tide of gonzo mash-ups and wacky title collusions that has taken over the zombie genre in the latter half of the 00s is that, despite the title, it is a zombie film that is playing itself seriously, emerging as another variant on the zombie relationship drama (*)
The Last Winter (2006)
Mar 10, 2009Environmental Horror Film
Strong and effective environmental horror film from Larry Fessenden in which the crew of an Alaskan drilling operation disturb something beneath the ground (*)
I Sell the Dead (2008)
Jan 10, 2011Grave Robbers Encounters Monsters
Odd film about 19th Century body snatchers that is like a low-budget version of a Burke and Hare story. This develops a sense of humour and starts to go in some very strange directions
The House of the Devil (2009)
Jan 17, 2010Occult Sacrifice
The film that started to get attention for Ti West as a director, a slow burn work where Jocelin Donahue is hired for a babysitting job only to find sinister things going on when she arrives at the house
Stake Land (2010)
Sep 8, 2011Post-Apocalyptic World of Vampires
Strong and highly original film that takes place in a post-apocalyptic world overrun by vampires. This has more the feel of a zombie film or an existential Western but does some highly original things with its ideas
Bitter Feast (2010)
Jun 14, 2022Celebrity Chef Imprisons a Food Critic
An appealingly nasty little film where a celebrity chef imprisons and tortures a scathing food critic. Produced by Larry Fessenden.
The Innkeepers (2011)
Mar 30, 2012Haunted Hotel
A ghost story that gains its effect from a quiet, almost mundanely understated approach and existing in an ambiguous place where we cannot be sure whether manifestations are real or in the imagination
Hypothermia (2011)
Oct 21, 2021Monster Beneath a Frozen-Over Lake
A Larry Fessenden produced monster movie that takes place around a 100 square feet of a frozen-over lake with people being hunted by a monster beneath the ice
Beneath (2013)
Oct 31, 2013Teens Trapped in a Sinking Boat by a Giant Fish
Larry Fessenden makes what seems a formula teens in peril film. Once he gets his cast stranded in a sinking boat menaced by a giant fish and debating who to throw overboard, he develops some remarkably brutal tensions
ABCs of Death 2 (2014)
Nov 1, 2014Horror Anthology
Sequel to the hit multi-director anthology has a less high-profile line-up of directors, nor hits the astonishingly perverse heights of its predecessor. As always some entries never do much but the film finds its stride in the last few episodes
Late Phases (2014)
Mar 21, 2016Werewolf in a Retirement Village
This is maybe the most original treatment of werewolf themes in the last decade. The film begins with the unique premise of ‘Werewolf in a Retirement Village' and features a hero who is an aging blind man
Darling (2015)
Sep 12, 2016Girl's Fraying Sanity/Haunted Apartment
One of the films from the most promising Mickey Keating. Darling owes a great deal of debt to Roman Polanski's Repulsion but Keating very effectively drags us into a disturbed mental space
Stake Land II (2016)
May 8, 2017Post-Apocalyptic World of Vampires
Stake Land, set in a beautifully wintry post-holocaust world where vampires had taken over, one of the best films from Glass Eye Pix. This is a sequel that reunites most of the same elements from the original but fails to ignite them as memorably as the first film did
Psychopaths (2017)
Feb 11, 2019Vignettes of Various Killers
From the increasingly rising genre name of Mickey Keating. This feels less like a film than a series of short films edited together (expertly so), all on the theme of people gleefully engaged in murder
Most Beautiful Island (2017)
May 20, 2019Woman Drawn Into a Secret Underground Society
Ana Asensio, a Spanish immigrant, writes, directs and stars in a story about a cash-strapped Spanish immigrant who is forced to seek employment in a secret society in order to make ends meet (*)
The Ranger (2018)
Jul 27, 2021Psychopathic Park Ranger/Black Comedy
Slasher film with a diabolically funny sense of humour as a psychopathic park ranger stalks a group of partying punks
Depraved (2019)
Sep 29, 2019Modernised Frankenstein Film
Larry Fessenden has become a horror director who has made some fine work that remain under the commercial radar. This is his modernised take on the Frankenstein story
Isolation (2021)
Nov 12, 2021Anthology of Covid Lockdown Horror Stories
Ten different filmmakers from around the world combine to make an anthology of eight horror stories set during the Covid lockdown
Blackout (2023)
Jun 30, 2024Werewolf Film
Larry Fessenden is a strong genre force as director, producer and sometimes actor. He has covered most major horror themes in his films. Blackout was his take on the werewolf film