I love werewolf movies. I’m not sure where this love comes from because, quite frankly, there aren’t that many good ones out there. Maybe it’s the subtext-ready element of “the beast inside” that can represent any number of repressed emotions or hormonal changes. Perhaps it’s simply the fact that as a movie monster werewolves have […]
Tag Archives: Larry Fessenden
It’s a very risky project when a filmmaker tries to make a genre film that wears a political message on its sleeve. But that’s exactly what co-writer/producer/director Larry Fessenden did with The Last Winter. Unlike other films that have attempted to merge an ecological message with horror elements (I’m looking at you The Happening), Fessenden […]
On Friday, I’ll be introducing Criminally Ignored, a new column dedicated to great films that either received no theatrical or barely there theatrical releases. While this sounds like a wide net I’m casting, the idea is to narrow things down by focusing on movies that no one saw and have failed to become cult favorites […]