Larry Fessenden

Larry Fessenden was the winner of the 1997 Someone to Watch Independent Spirit Award. He is the writer and director of several critically acclaimed art-horror movies including Trauma, Blackout, Depraved, The Last Winter, Wendigo, and Habit. Fessenden has operated the fierce independent New York based production outfit Glass Eye Pix ("one of the indie scene's most productive and longest-running companies" - Indiewire) since 1985, producing over 50 movies including The House of the Devil, Stake Land and The Ranger; In 2022 The Museum of Modern Art ran a 26 film retrospective of the Company. As an actor, Fessenden has appeared in over 100 films, including Killers of The Flower Moon, (Martin Scorsese), The Dead Don't Die, BrokenFlowers (Jim Jarmusch), River of Grass, Wendy and Lucy, (Kelly Reichardt), Maxxxine, In A Valley of Violence (Ti West), and horror films such as Good Boy and You're Next. He co-wrote with Graham Reznick the Bafta-winning video game Until Dawn and produces the scary audio drama series Tales From Beyond The Pale, now in its 15th year.

You can find his work on Facebook, Instagram, Linktree, and the Glass Eye Pix website.

Interview recorded on 2026-07-12.