Additional festival highlights include the World Premiere of Larry Fessenden’s new film, Trauma, or Monsters All, the final film of his personal quadrilogy, bringing together the creatures from the previous films in the horror master’s long and varied career. As part of this premiere showcase, the Overlook will also be screening the first three films from the Fessenden-verse which lead up to his new opus, including previous Overlook inclusions Blackout and Depraved, as well as his 1995 classic Habit.
HABIT
Filmmaker in attendance
Larry Fessenden | 1995 | USA | 112 min. Indie icon Larry Fessenden’s first feature, about an alcoholic New Yorker who falls for a mysterious woman with vampiric qualities, is as groundbreaking now as it was when it debuted over 20 years ago, inspiring generations of young horror filmmakers to this day.
Cast: Larry Fessenden, Meredith Snaider
DEPRAVED
Filmmaker in attendance
Larry Fessenden | 2019 | USA | 114 min. The second in Larry Fessenden’s genre-bending four movie monsterverse is a millennial take on the Frankenstein myth in which a PTSD-riddled field surgeon deep in the heart of Brooklyn decides to reconstruct an unsuspecting man out of spare body parts.
Cast: David Call, Joshua Leonard, Alex Breaux, Ana Kayne, Mara Dizzia, Chloe Levine, Owen Campbell, Addison Timlin
BLACKOUT
Filmmaker in attendance
Larry Fessenden | 2023 | USA | 103 min. Not your typical werewolf story, Blackout follows a painter, haunted by guilt, who becomes convinced that he is transforming at night and wreaking havoc in his small town in the third of Larry Fessenden’s four part monsterverse series.
Cast: Alex Hurt, Addison Timlin, Motell Gyn Foster, Joseph Castillo-Midyett, John Speredakos
TRAUMA, OR MONSTERS ALL
World Premiere
Filmmaker in attendance
Larry Fessenden | 2026 | USA | 118 min. An aspiring author gets more than she bargained for when she writes an article for the local paper about her small town’s dark history, prompting unwanted speculation on what monsters may lie within. Overlook mainstay Larry Fessenden returns with the thrilling conclusion to his quadrilogy, a thoughtful and fiercely independent monster mash that can be enjoyed on its own or marathoned with his three origin stories – Habit, Depraved, and Blackout.
Cast: LAËTITIA HOLLARD, AITANA DOYLE
ADDISON TIMLIN, ALEX HURT, ALEX BREAUX, LARRY FESSENDEN
JOHN SPEREDAKOS, CODY KOSTRO, MARC SENTER
MICHEÁL NEESON RIGO GARAY JOSEPH CASTILLO-MIDYETT BARBARA CRAMPTON as Kate with JOSHUA LEONARD and JAMES LE GROS
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