From deadline.com:
Magnet Releasing is plotting more ABCs of Death following its 2012 high concept horror anthology. The sequel’s directors unveiled today at Cannes will include Oscar nominated animator Bill Plympton, Goya winning director Alex De La Iglesias (The Last Circus), and documentarian Rodney Ascher (Room 237), who lead a new lineup of international directors depicting assorted horrible ways to die. Also tapped to direct segments: Filipino filmmaker Erik Matti, whose On The Job debuts this week in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight sidebar, founder of Nigerian “Nollywood” cinema Lancelot   Continue Reading »

From Movies.BroadwayWorld.com:
Below, get a first look at a new domestic poster for Chad Crawford Kinkle’s JUG FACE, starring Sean Young, Lauren Ashley Carter, Sean Bridgers, Larry Fessenden, and Daniel Manche. The film that made its world premiere at Slamdance 2013 (Kinkle’s script won the 2011 Slamdance Screenwriting & Teleplay Competition Grand Prize) will have its theatrical release later this summer.
In JUG FACE, the pit has spoken. Dawai, the potter of a backwoods community, has crafted a face on a ceramic   Continue Reading »

They Really Need a Bigger Boat in the Trailer for ‘Beneath’ — VIDEO
by Clark Collis
Filmmaker Larry Fessenden has been busy over the past few years working on his Tales From Beyond the Pale audio series, producing other folks’ movies (such as the post-apocalyptic vampire yarn Stakeland and Ti West’s The Innkeepers), and acting in an impressive array of projects, including this August’s fantastic home invasion horror-comedy You’re Next. But the indie-horror overlord hasn’t actually directed a film since 2006′s Ron   Continue Reading »

How Larry Fessenden’s Chiller-Produced Shocker ‘Beneath’ Wrestles With the Made-For-TV Formula
by Eric Kohn
… Fessenden has embraced the cheesy premise and had fun with it while exploring just beyond its borders. A creepy old man whose presence bookends the drama, played by Mark Margolis, lends a dreamlike quality to the narrative that elevates its plot to an abstract level. With its reliance on ambiguity and mood, “Beneath” applies lo-fi aesthetics to an eerie, isolated chamber drama akin to Fessdenen’s last creepy outing,   Continue Reading »

From Indiewire.com:

The Stanley Film Festival, an inaugural festival celebrating the best in independent horror, launches today in Estes Park, Colorado at the famous Stanley Hotel, the haunted landmark that inspired “The Shining”‘s Overlook Hotel. To kick it off, Indiewire is pleased to debut the poster for one of the features screening at the festival, Larry Fessenden’s “Beneath.”
The horror pic centers on a group of friends celebrating their high school graduation at a remote lake location. Things take a turn for   Continue Reading »

Larry Fessenden’s newest film, BENEATH, will have its World Premiere at the Stanley Film Festival. The highly anticipated horror festival will be held in Estes Park, Colorado at the hotel that inspired THE SHINING.

When a bloodthirsty, underwater predator leaves a group of teens trapped on a leaking boat in the middle of a lake, the friends must choose between loyalty and survival in this monstrous morality tale.
BENEATH premieres May 3rd at 2:30pm, and Fessenden will be on the scene   Continue Reading »

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AVANT-GARDE-ARAMA: NEW MOON
A tribute to the late downtown luminary performance artist Tom Murrin, aka Alien Comic, in celebration of his 27 years of performing in Avant-Garde-Arama.
Performances: April 12 + 13, 8pm | Tickets: $15
At the Abrons Playhouse at Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand Street, New York City
New York, NY – Curated by Salley May, Avant-Garde-Arama: New Moon is a tribute to the late downtown mentor and luminary performance artist Tom Murrin, who anchored the show for 27 years. This,   Continue Reading »

 
HABIT- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES (March 21, 1997)
Are we all agreed–all of us except for Anne Rice–that there is no such thing as a vampire? Yes? And yet the children of the darkness prey on our imaginations, and there is something inexplicably erotic about vampirism. “Habit,” a sad and haunting film by Larry Fessenden, is a modern vampire story, or maybe it’s not. Maybe in a way the hero is drinking his own blood.
Fessenden stars as Sam, an alcoholic whose   Continue Reading »