Larry Fessenden

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)

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