Depraved: Larry Fessenden’s Postmodern Prometheus {Movie Review}

In my Stake Land review, I briefly discussed this film’s producer, Larry Fessenden, a veteran of the indie horror scene. A self-proclaimed student of Hitchcock, the man of many hats and his New York based company, Glass Eye Pix, have been going strong for 25 years. During that time, he and Glass Eye Pix have launched and furthered the careers of some of the better directors on the outside of the mainstream: Ti West, Jim Mickle, Kelly Reichardt, Mickey Keating, and Glen McQuaid. Fessenden has produced and also acted in a lot of their work and other films, making him an unsung character actor of the horror genre as well. He even made an appearance in Jim Jarmusch’s 2019 Cannes’ entry, The Dead Don’t Die.

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