May 1, 2021
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NY Times: JAKOB’S WIFE one of “Five movies to Stream Now”
‘Jakob’s Wife’
Rent or buy it on Amazon Prime, Google Play, Vudu.
When a mysterious figure attacks Anne (Barbara Crampton), the wife of a conservative small-town pastor (Larry Fessenden), it does more than turn her into a bloodsucking monster. The bite from the Master, as the Nosferatu-looking vampire is known, also awakens in Anne a thirst for the self-determination and sexual confidence she’s kept under wraps her entire marriage. Reinvented as a vamp (sorry), Anne is forced to question what it means to be a wife, a woman and a human.
Travis Stevens’s film layers feminism on top of comedy on top of vampire myth and gross-out splatter. It mostly clicks, and the reason is Crampton. With a decades-long career in out-there films including “Re-Animator,” she’s as close to acting royalty as horror gets. Here she is fearless as a woman discovering her powers within. (Stevens told the horror movie magazine Rue Morgue one of his goals was to give Crampton “her version” of Gena Rowlands’s harrowing performance in the John Cassavetes film “A Woman Under the Influence.”) Crampton’s chemistry with Fessenden, another horror vet, is the film’s activating element.
April 29, 2021
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TBT: Fessenden & the Hot Rod of the undead
TBT 2018, Fessenden chilling on the set of THE DEAD DON’T DIE.
Director Jim Jarmusch pays tribute to Night Of The Living Dead by featuring
the exact make and model of the car from the George Romero classic.
April 27, 2021
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Fessenden talks JAKOB’S WIFE, horror films and GEP on The Movies That Made Me podcast
Fessenden chats with Joe Dante & Josh Olsen about some of his favorite movies on
THE MOVIES THAT MADE ME Podcast, presented by Trailer From Hell.
THE MOVIES THAT MADE ME Podcast, presented by Trailer From Hell.
Listen on the Episode Page HERE
April 23, 2021
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NEW in the CINEZONE: SEE SAW by Ben Duff
SEE SAW: writer/director Ben Duff. (2014, 9 mins)
Cinematography by Ben Duff.
Featuring Annabeth Faucher and Bryan Papciak.
G&E by Abbey Killheffer.
watch the teaser below
and join us in the CineZone to see the film
Director’s Statement:
This was my final project in my junior year video class in college. People always say that scent is the sense that is strongest tied to memory, but I think that sound is up there as well. I thought it might be interesting to compare the idea of a lost memory to the idea of a song being stuck in your head… a song you can’t quite place. I thought that might be similar to the idea of witnessing something horrible – not being able to remember but also not being able to forget. The idea was that the song would build as the memory progressed, until the memory became fully formed. It was also kind of an exploration of the idea called a “memory palace” – in which recollection is envisioned as exploring a physical space. 
Watch SEE SAW in the CineZone
April 22, 2021
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Earth Day TBT: The Last Winter
TBT 2006: James LeGros, Ron Perlman and Fessenden
on the set of eco-horror favorite, THE LAST WINTER.
April 21, 2021
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NYTimes: Kelly Reichardt’s NIGHT MOVES a “Streaming Gem”
‘Night Moves’ (2014)
Many of Kelly Reichardt’s acolytes consider this eco-thriller to be among the director’s lesser efforts, and when placed against “Wendy and Lucy” or “First Cow,” perhaps that’s true. But Reichardt on her worst day surpasses most of her contemporaries on their best, and there’s much to recommend in this morally thorny story of a trio of radical environmentalists (Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning and Peter Sarsgaard) as they meticulously plot and execute a dangerous act of protest. Reichardt hits the thriller beats, but casually and modestly; her emphasis, as ever, is on character, and she finds as much suspense in interactions as in the action itself.
Fessenden credited as Executive Producer and also created the “motivational film” presented at the eco-gathering depicted in the movie.
