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Perhaps Mr. Fessenden's best-known attribute is his habit of getting killed in mainstream Hollywood movies.

New York's Monster of Independent Film Steve Dollar 2010

He credits Mr. Fessenden's laid-back approach with fostering a creative environment for emerging filmmakers.

New York's Monster of Independent Film Steve Dollar 2010

The program features several of Mr. Fessenden's unpredictable twists on genre — vampires in "Habit," weird science in "No Telling," Native American lore in "Wendigo" and "The Last Winter" — as well as sharp-witted turns by directors Ti West, Glenn McQuaid, Graham Reznick and James McKenney.

New York's Monster of Independent Film Steve Dollar 2010

"We thought it was a great way to get content out there between film projects," said Mr. McQuaid, who, like many of the participants, is affiliated with Mr. Fessenden's Glass Eye Pix production company, which is distributing "Tales."

The Spooky Sounds of Classic Radio Steve Dollar 2011

I'd missed this film, though I'm a great fan of two of Fessenden's earlier films, Habit (1996) and Wendigo (2001).

"We've all been changed from what we were..." greygirlbeast 2008

In theory -- certainly in tone -- Fessenden's films impress me more consistently than any other contemporary genre director I can think of.

April come she will Arbogast 2008

THE LAST WINTER is one of Fessenden's "tweeners," movies that have one foot in genre and the other firmly in the arthouse.

April come she will Arbogast 2008

And in that, you see Fessenden's draft of the 14th Amendment, and in it, his draft is so broad that it would've made the 15th Amendment, granting the right to vote to black males, unnecessary.

Profiles in Character: Hubris and Heroism in the U.S. Senate, 1789-1990 1998

The -- you know, it was all -- it was a kind of crazy period, as, indeed, Fessenden's words back, ` I think we're all going to go insane, 'almost in 1866, right after the Civil War -- all the tensions in the country.

Profiles in Character: Hubris and Heroism in the U.S. Senate, 1789-1990 1998

According to Fessenden's wife, Helen, Fessenden himself played the violin solo, Gounod's "O Holy Night," and read the Nativity passage from the Gospel of Luke.

Prime Time Preachers: The Rising Power of Televangelism; with an Introduction by T George Harris 1981