If ever there was to be a Mt. Rushmore of modern horror, there’s no question that the face of Larry Fessenden would get prominent placement. One of the patron saints of indie horror, Fessenden is a true auteur and a true original whose incredible career is now being celebrated with the Scream Factory release of The Larry Fessenden Collection, containing four of his films and hours of bonus features that help illuminate just what a vital voice Fessenden has been in the genre for more than three decades. This is one of the best horror releases of the year.
Fessenden (whose Glass Eye Pix has been around since the mid-’80s, helping produce films including The House of the Devil, I Sell the Dead, Stake Land and Late Phases) has built a career on twisting and subverting the conventions of classic horror films and filtering them through his own distinctive lens.
Fessenden (whose Glass Eye Pix has been around since the mid-’80s, helping produce films including The House of the Devil, I Sell the Dead, Stake Land and Late Phases) has built a career on twisting and subverting the conventions of classic horror films and filtering them through his own distinctive lens.
- 11/25/2015
- by Patrick Bromley
- DailyDead
Scream Factory and IFC Midnight have paired up to present an inspired disc set for The Larry Fessenden Collection, an assortment of four of the director’s most notable genre films. Migrating between a number of notable projects as a character actor (he usually appears as some peripheral, grizzled weirdo, showing up in titles by Scorsese, Neil Jordan, and Kelly Reichardt, amongst others), he’s also a noted producer, editor, screenwriter, and cinematographer. But Fessenden’s made his most striking impression with a growing body of genre oriented independent directorial efforts. Usually prizing strong characterization amidst situations of mounting dread, Fessenden seems fascinated with testing the strengths and inherent weaknesses of mankind, and it’s probably easiest to label his filmography as environmental horror.
Out of Fessenden’s own production company Glass Eye Pix, 1991’s No Telling (or the Frankenstein Complex) melds motifs of Mary Shelley’s famed mad scientist with modern animal experimentation.
Out of Fessenden’s own production company Glass Eye Pix, 1991’s No Telling (or the Frankenstein Complex) melds motifs of Mary Shelley’s famed mad scientist with modern animal experimentation.
- 10/27/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
One of the strongest voices in independent horror, writer/director/actor/producer Larry Fessenden is celebrated by Scream Factory today with their Blu-ray release of The Larry Fessenden Collection, containing four of his films: No Telling, Habit, Wendigo and The Last Winter. We've been provided with one copy of the four-disc Blu-ray to give away to a lucky Daily Dead reader.
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Prize Details: (1) Winner will receive (1) Blu-ray copy of The Larry Fessenden Collection.
How to Enter: For a chance to win, email contest@dailydead.com with the subject “The Larry Fessenden Collection Contest”. Be sure to include your name and mailing address.
Entry Details: The contest will end at 12:01am Est on October 26th. This contest is only open to those who are eighteen years of age or older that live in the United States. Only one entry per household will be accepted.
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Blu-ray details: "Marking the...
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Prize Details: (1) Winner will receive (1) Blu-ray copy of The Larry Fessenden Collection.
How to Enter: For a chance to win, email contest@dailydead.com with the subject “The Larry Fessenden Collection Contest”. Be sure to include your name and mailing address.
Entry Details: The contest will end at 12:01am Est on October 26th. This contest is only open to those who are eighteen years of age or older that live in the United States. Only one entry per household will be accepted.
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Blu-ray details: "Marking the...
- 10/20/2015
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
This fall, Scream Factory's celebrating the Halloween season indie style with their Blu-ray release of The Larry Fessenden Collection, featuring four of Fessenden's films: No Telling, Habit, Wendigo and The Last Winter. Ahead of the collection's October 20th debut, Scream Factory's revealed the release's impressive list of bonus features, along with another look at the cover art:
Press Release: Award-winning filmmaker Larry Fessenden has become an indie horror legend with his idiosyncratic, genre-bending films. As a writer, producer, director and actor, Fessenden’s oeuvre has developed a passionate fan base who applaud his realistic, character-driven horror stories. Fessenden’s films often examine the disintegration of civilization and humanity, provoking terror in the viewer through psychological dread, not gratuitous gore.
Scream Factory, in conjunction with IFC Midnight, will bring together four critically-acclaimed films by this multi-talented filmmaker with the release of the four disc The Larry Fessenden Collection on Blu-ray on October 20th,...
Press Release: Award-winning filmmaker Larry Fessenden has become an indie horror legend with his idiosyncratic, genre-bending films. As a writer, producer, director and actor, Fessenden’s oeuvre has developed a passionate fan base who applaud his realistic, character-driven horror stories. Fessenden’s films often examine the disintegration of civilization and humanity, provoking terror in the viewer through psychological dread, not gratuitous gore.
Scream Factory, in conjunction with IFC Midnight, will bring together four critically-acclaimed films by this multi-talented filmmaker with the release of the four disc The Larry Fessenden Collection on Blu-ray on October 20th,...
- 9/16/2015
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
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