Depraved

Ian West4.0

Thoughtful. The patron saint of indie genre films manages to resurrect a centuries old story and sew it together with morality, compassion, and the aforementioned thoughtfulness—and it all comes together so well, a Frankensteined DIY masterclass. Habit will always be my favorite Larry jam, but this and Wendigo come close, and I’m loving Josh Leonard's career evolution into morally bankrupt villains, as well as seeing Fessenden drink modelos in the making of documentary. I loved this—Easily one of my favorite movies of 2019 and absolutely the most I’ve felt while watching a movie in quite a bit.Totally sincere and absolutely Depraved in its beauty.

davidehrlich3.0

Hell-bent upon finding evidence of ancient monsters in the modern world (often by exploring how they continue to be reflected in the raw stuff of human nature), Larry Fessenden launched his filmmaking career with a Frankenstein story, and he’s been working his way back to the subject ever since. Traces of Mary Shelley’s mad science can be found in many of the low-budget horror movies that his Glass Eye Pix has produced since 1985, and they’re even more apparent in the ones that he’s directed: From the ecological hubris of “The Last Winter” to the monster-is-us mythicism of “Wendigo” and the selfishness that percolates beneath all of his narratives and bubbled to the surface in “Beneath,” each of his features has dissected a severed limb from Shelley’s foundational story.With “Depraved” — which is perhaps both his least expensive and most ambitious movie — Fessenden sews his entire body of work together. More than a masterclass in DIY cinema, the result of this deranged experiment is a fun and febrile tale that takes the moral temperature of our time with an almost invasive degree of accuracy. If Fessenden’s reach inevitably exceeds his grasp, well, whose doesn’t these days?READ THE FULL REVIEW ON INDIEWIRE

Tony the Terror4.0

Good ‘ol Larry Fessenden gives us another winner and this time it’s a horror with quite a bit of heart. A low budget, modern day version of Frankenstein and honestly it’s one of the best versions I’ve seen. The performances are all impressive, especially Alex Breaux who plays Adam (the monster) and I kept trying to figure out where I’d seen him before and then I realized he very strongly resembles a guy I dated for a while back in college. Go figure.Parts of this really do tug at the heartstrings because you just want what’s best for Adam and I was kinda bummed it didn’t end the way it almost seemed like it was going to but I guess that’s just all part of Adam’s curse. Still, it was a fun watch and I always enjoy seeing Joshua Leonard in a horror movie and boy does he ham it the fuck up in this one. Great stuff.