Larry Fessenden
Larry FESSENDEN (1963, New York) started experimenting with video and super8 after he was expelled from school. In 1980 he made several short films including A Face in the Crowd (1981), which helped him get a place at NYU, where the first version of Habit (1997) was made. Fessenden acted in Habit and in No Telling (1991) and then he went on to act in several films by other directors, before his international breakthrough with Wendigo (2001), the third and final part of his horror trilogy. Fessenden also acted in Martin Scorcese’s Killers of the Flower Moon (2023). His film Blackout (2023) was selected for IFFR 2024.
Filmography
Jaws (1978, short), The Eliminator (1979, short), White Trash (1980), The Field (1980), Lifeline (1981, short), A Face in the Crowd (1980),Habit (1982), Experienced Movers (1985, doc), Chinatown (1986, short doc), Mismatch (1987, short doc), Hollow Venus: Stunt: A Musical Motion Picture (1989, short), Diary of a Go-Go Dancer (1989, doc), No Telling (or the Frankenstein Complex) (1991), Habit (1996), Wendigo (2001), Searching for the Wendigo (2002, short doc), The Last Winter (2006), Fear Itself (2008, TV), Beneath (2013), Frankenstein Cannot Be Stopped (2014), The ABC’s of Death 2 (2014), Depraved (2019), Blackout (2023)
More Info: Larry Fessenden
Larry Fessenden at IFFR
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The Last Winter
Eco-ghost story or bio-horror? In the isolated north of Alaska, the team from an oil company is busy with an investigation. But even though it is e
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I Sell the Dead
Unadulterated buddy movie about graverobbers, bodysnatchers and living dead, situated in the misty and grubby 19th-century British Isles. A dark, a
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Wendy and Lucy
A topical and restrained roadmovie about the frail heroine Wendy who loses her dog on the way to Alaska and has nothing to fall back on.
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Wendigo
During a holiday in the snow, a respectable family from the city is terrorised by psychopathic country folk and the little monster Wendigo. Intelli
