Larry FessendenFilmography

Occupation:: Actor, Director, Editor, Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: Producer, director, and occasional character actor Larry Fessenden personifies low-budget independent filmmaking at its edgiest and riskiest. Like the better-known Abel Ferrara, with whom he is often favorably compared, Fessenden established himself by making gritty, supernaturally tinged studies...Read More

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Bitter Feast

Crew: Executive Producer

2010
The House of the Devil

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jocelin Donahue, Greta Gerwig, Tom Noonan, Mary Woronov, A.J. Bowen

Synopsis: A coed struggling to pay her rent ends up taking the wrong part-time job in writer-director Ti West's old-school 1980s-set horror flick, The House of the Devil. Samantha (Jocelin Donahue) is a sweet-natured and retiring young woman, unlike her rambunctious, loud, and self-assured best buddy, Megan Read More

10/30/09
I Sell the Dead

Crew: Producer

Actors: Dominic Monaghan, Larry Fessenden, Ron Perlman, Angus Scrimm, John Speredakos

Synopsis: Adventure and horror merge in this morbid tale of two 18th century grave robbers who make it their mission to hunt down the undead abominations that refuse to accept their rightful place in the ground. Arrested by towering holy man Father Duffy (Ron Perlman) and threatened with the guillotine for Read More

8/7/09
I Can See You

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ben Dickinson, Duncan Skiles, Christopher Ford, Heather Robb, Olivia Villanti

Synopsis: A weekend brainstorming trip into the wilderness sets three aspiring ad men on the trail to terror in this brain-twisting horror film from writer/director Graham Reznick. Their assignment was to overhaul the image of Claractix, a once-popular household cleaner. The trip takes a turn for the worse Read More

4/29/09
Wendy and Lucy

Crew: Producer

Actors: Michelle Williams, John Robinson, Will Oldham

Synopsis: Old Joy director Kelly Reichardt crafts this intimate tale of Wendy, an alienated Indiana woman who packs up her car and sets her sights on Alaska, but finds herself stranded in a small Oregon town with no money and only her faithful dog, Lucy, to keep her company. When Wendy realizes that there's Read More

12/10/08
Mulberry Street

Actors: Nick Damici, Antone Pagan, Sarah Dickinson, Heidi Peterson, Jim Heater

Synopsis: Fresh off the success of his award-winning senior thesis film The Underdogs, Tisch School of the Arts graduate Jim Mickle returns with this tale of a mysterious virus that causes mass chaos as it sweeps through a terrified Manhattan neighborhood. It's another sweltering summer day in downtown New Read More

11/9/07
Trigger Man

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Reggie Cunningham, Ray Sullivan, Sean Reid, Larry Fessenden, James Felix McKenney, Heather Robb

Synopsis: Three friends out for a day of hunting discover they're the ones whose lives are in danger in this independent thriller. When a guy announces to his friends that he's getting married, two of his buddies decide to take him out for a final weekend of male bonding, centered upon a weekend of hunting Read More

10/19/07
The Last Winter

Crew: Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Ron Perlman, James LeGros, Connie Britton, Zach Gilford, Kevin Corrigan

Synopsis: As preparation gets underway for the construction of an environmentally devastating oil well in a remote Alaskan base just outside the Arctic Circle, a series of unexplainable occurrences lead a team of adventurers to believe that something supernatural may be afoot in director Larry Fessenden's Read More

9/19/07
The Brave One

Actors: Jodie Foster, Terrence Howard, Nicky Katt, Naveen Andrews, Mary Steenburgen

Synopsis: Neil Jordan's The Brave One stars Jodie Foster as a happy woman whose life changes irrevocably after a brutal assault leaves her partner (Naveen Andrews) dead. The woman, feeling that the police investigation will be unable to catch the perpetrators, begins to live in constant fear. This outlook Read More

9/14/07
Liberty Kid

Crew: Producer

Actors: Al Thompson, Kareem Savinon, Raquel Jordan, Rosa Ramos, Anny Mariano

Synopsis: Director Ilya Chaiken explores the lives of Tico and Derrick, two friends and former Statue of Liberty employees who lost their jobs in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States. Tico is a quick-tempered youth who responds to his unemployment dilemma by Read More

2007
Sisters

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Lou Doillon, Stephen Rea, Chloë Sevigny, Dallas Roberts

Synopsis: Family Portraits: A Trilogy of America director Douglas Buck follows that gruesome collection of three short films with this feature-length reimaging of cinema auteur Brian De Palma's 1973 horror film concerning a pair of mysterious siblings and the curious reporter who stumbles upon their deadly Read More

2007
Automatons

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Laree Love, Don Wood, David W. Hale

Synopsis: Machines fight for control of a world destroyed by man in this ultra-low-budget sci-fi saga from filmmaker James Felix McKenney. A global war has left the surface of the Earth uninhabitable, and the few humans who have lived through the conflict have been driven underground in order to survive. Read More

12/13/06
Satellite

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Karl Geary, Stephanie Szostak, Pell James

Synopsis: A chance encounter prompts a young couple to forsake everything they have ever known in the hopes of truly experiencing life as never before in director Jeff Winner's reckless romantic drama. After meeting and falling in love over the course of just one weekend, Kevin (Karl Geary) and Ro Read More

8/9/06
The Hunter

Actors: Larry Fessenden, Joel Garland, David Warshofsky

2006
The Roost

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Tom Noonan, Wil Horneff, Larry Fessenden, John Speredakos, Vanessa Horneff, Karl Jacob, Sean Reid, Richard Little

Synopsis: Creatures of the night find new prey on the scariest night of the year in this horror story. It's Halloween night, and four friends -- Allison (Vanessa Horneff), Elliott (Wil Horneff), Trevor (Karl Jacob), and Brian (Sean Reid) -- are on a road trip en route to a friend's wedding when their car Read More

10/21/05
Zombie Honeymoon

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Tracy Coogan, Graham Sibley, Tonya Cornelisse, David M. Wallace, Neal Jones

Synopsis: A young bride says "until death do us part," but finds that doesn't necessarily put an end to her romance in this offbeat blend of horror, comedy, and romance. Danny (Graham Sibley) and Denise (Tracy Coogan) are a young couple who have just gotten married and head off to a beachside bungalow to Read More

10/4/05
Broken Flowers

Actors: Bill Murray, Jeffrey Wright, Sharon Stone, Frances Conroy, Jessica Lange, Tilda Swinton, Julie Delpy

Synopsis: A man sets out to find the son he didn't know he had and winds up getting answers to some questions he never asked in this comedy drama from director Jim Jarmusch. Don Johnston (Bill Murray) is an emotionally blank middle-aged man who has never married and lives a quiet, comfortable life thanks to Read More

8/5/05
Headspace

Actors: Christopher Denham

Synopsis: A twenty-five year old man whose chance encounter with a mysterious stranger has found his intellect rapidly expanding finds himself at the center of a gruesome murder case in an award-winning horror thriller starring Olivia Hussey, Sean Young, Dee Wallace Stone, and Udo Kier. Alex Borden is Read More

2005
Imaginary Heroes

Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Emile Hirsch, Jeff Daniels, Michelle Williams, Kip Pardue

Synopsis: A shocking and tragic event causes the members of a quietly dysfunctional family to reexamine themselves and their lives in this drama. Ben and Sandy Travis (Jeff Daniels and Sigourney Weaver) are a couple whose troubled family begins to crumble when their eldest son, star college athlete Matt (Kip Pardue Read More

12/17/04
Family Portraits: A Trilogy of America

Synopsis: Independent filmmaker Douglas Buck wrote and directed this anthology of three short subjects, each of which takes an unflinching look at disturbing secrets lurking beneath the surfaces of several "ordinary" families. In Cutting Moments, a housewife (Nicca Ray) who has come to the end of her rope Read More

10/13/04
Wendigo

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Patricia Clarkson, Jake Weber

Synopsis: Larry Fessenden, director of the acclaimed independent horror films Habit and No Telling, crafts another unique tale of terror and suspense with this supernatural drama. George (Jake Weber) is a high-strung professional photographer who is starting to unravel from the stress of his work with a Read More

2/15/02
Margarita Happy Hour

Actors: Eleanor Hutchins, Larry Fessenden

Synopsis: It's hard to be hip and a mother at the same time, as one twenty-something New Yorker discovers in this independent comedy drama. Zelda (Eleanor Hutchins) is a struggling artist who lives with her boyfriend Max (Larry Fessenden), a would-be writer, in a bohemian neighborhood in Brooklyn favored by Read More

2001
You Are Here

Actors: Ajay Naidu, Todd Peters, Larry Fessenden

Synopsis: A twentysomething office drone struggles between freedom and responsibility in this independent comedy-drama. Sanjay (Ajay Naidu) is a man in his mid-'20s who has come to the conclusion his life is stuck in neutral. Sanjay hates his job and doesn't think it has any real future and one day he Read More

2000
Habit

Crew: Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Larry Fessenden, Meredith Snaider, Aaron Beall, Patricia Coleman, Heather Woodbury

Synopsis: This well-crafted independent horror film from writer-director Larry Fessenden is one of the better films to emerge from the '90s "revisionist" movement in vampire cinema, which also included Abel Ferrara's The Addiction and Michael Almereyda's Nadja. Fessenden also plays the lead as Sam, a Read More

1996
River of Grass

Actors: Larry Fessenden, Dick Russell

Synopsis: River of Grass has all the elements of a conventional road movie: a car, a gun, criminal plans, and young lovers on the run from an angry father who also happens to be a suspended police officer. But writer and director Kelly Reichardt has instead taken these familiar elements and fashioned an Read More

1994
No Telling

Crew: Director

Actors: Stephen Ramsey, David van Tieghem

Synopsis: Geoffrey (Stephen Ramsey) and Lillian (Miriam Healy-Louie) are a couple spending the summer in the country in hopes of smoothing over some rough patches in their relationship. However, Geoffrey, who is a research scientist, has brought his work with him, which hardly helps, since Lillian's biggest Read More

1991