Trauma, or Monsters All

Larry Fessenden ties together his classic monsters from HABIT, DEPRAVED and BLACKOUT. Like all classic monster mashes, doesn’t take itself too seriously, and Larry inserts his signature themes to great effect. And why should only giant studios get to make shared universes?

Phil Nobile Jr.

Un peu surpris d'avoir autant aimé, mais comme dans les meilleurs Fessenden les faiblesses participent à la singularité du projet. C'est un monster mash à petite échelle, avec des monstres un peu tristes et fatigués de la vie, inscrits dans la vision d'une communuauté…

SylvainL

The best part of Trauma is its tensions. Not just monster/not-monster (though “monster” is a loaded term in Talbot Falls), but past/present, secrets/revelation, grief/healing. The whole movie has a sense of stress and disorder, made all the worse when a newcomer to town…

Michele

A great, smart monster mash that blends history and gothicism to create a portrait of where we are as a country, where we’ve been, and a few options of where we might go to make things right. The monsters are out there. We’re just not looking in right places or at the right…

Richard_Newby

"While Universal has failed to relaunch its shared horror universe for decades, Larry Fessenden’s beloved bloodsucker Habit was released in 1995 and laid the groundwork for his own successful Monsterverse. Quietly, out of the mainstream’s eye, Fessenden assembled his take…

Matt Donato

I love the way Fessenden is gentle without being subtle. There’s a book titled Habit in an early scene in the library, and some great movie homages: it’s fun and why not? There’s a playfulness to this one I really enjoyed. As he said in the post-movie Q&A, “this one might…

Bryant

Thanks to bits of humor here and there, this may be director Fessenden's most accessible film in awhile. Though it brings together the wolfman, frankenstein and vampires of his earlier films, the primary focus is on a young woman who inadvertently kicks a small town's…

pkazee

Larry Fessenden you will always be famous 🩷 ✨movie #11 at the overlook film festival✨

Selis

Won’t lie as a longtime Fessenden fan hearing that his new project was going to be a twisted comedic completion of his monster routes I am a little saddened I don’t love this even more. Does not knock how much to say that Fessenden still has it, he is still a very talented…

Phanpy