The Films of Larry Fessenden: Volume 2 - Wendigo & The Last Winter

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This special limited edition 4-disc, 2 x 4K UHD/2 x Blu-ray, set comes with a spot gloss hard slipcase + dual slipcover combo (designed by Chris Barnes), includes a 40-page perfect bound book and is limited to 6,000 units. It is only available on our website and at select indie retailers. Absolutely no major retailers will be stocking them.

For forty years, Glass Eye Pix and its founder, Larry Fessenden, have been leaving their bloody mark on independent genre filmmaking in America. To celebrate the fortieth anniversary of Glass Eye Pix, Vinegar Syndrome is proud to present brand new 4K restorations of Larry Fessenden’s shot-on-film features, continuing with WENDIGO (2001) and THE LAST WINTER (2006).

WENDIGO
George (Jake Weber, Dawn of the Dead [2004]), his wife Kim (Patricia Clarkson, High Art and TV's Six Feet Under), and their son Miles (Erik Per Sullivan, TV’s Malcolm In the Middle) leave their home in Manhattan for a winter respite in Upstate New York, looking for some much-needed rest and relaxation. On their drive north, the family is involved in a sudden accident when George hits a deer that runs across an icy road, setting the stage for a snowbound supernatural showdown between them and the titular Wendigo, a grotesque legendary beast from Native American folklore.

Larry Fessenden’s long-awaited follow-up to his breakout feature, Habit (1995), WENDIGO is a distinctly American folk horror film shot entirely on location in New York's Catskills, on Super 16mm film by director of photography Terry Stacey (American Splendor). Vinegar Syndrome is proud to present Fessenden’s icy, DIY monster movie in a brand new director-approved 4K restoration of its original 16mm negatives.

THE LAST WINTER
At the remote Alaskan base of an oil company, hard-headed base leader Ed Pollack (Ron Perlman, Hellboy) faces off with eco-scientist James Hoffman (James Le Gros, Living In Oblivion), who has raised concerns about the environmental impact of the drilling in the area due to the abnormally warm temperatures in the region. When one of Pollack’s crew is found dead on the ice, and members of his team start experiencing hallucinations, Hoffman turns to a scientific explanation despite signs pointing towards something more supernatural at play.

Larry Fessenden followed up the winter folk horror of Wendigo with a similarly chilly ghost story set near the Arctic Circle. Shot on location in both Alaska and Iceland, marking Fessenden’s first film to be shot outside of the United States and New York, THE LAST WINTER is a remarkably cold and claustrophobic piece of folk horror that shares a few notable similarities with John Carpenter’s The Thing and is, to this date, Fessenden’s final movie shot on film and the only one to be shot entirely on 35mm. Vinegar Syndrome is proud to present Larry Fessenden’s wildly ambitious eco-horror thriller in a brand new director-approved 4K restoration from its 35mm negative.

directed by: Larry Fessenden
starring: Ron Perlman, James Le Gros, Connie Britton, Zach Gilford, Kevin Corrigan, Jamie Harrold, Patricia Clarkson, Jake Weber, Erik Per Sullivan, John Speredakos, Christopher Wynkoop, Brian Delate, Richard Stratton
2001, 2006 / 193 min (combined) / 1.85:1 & 2.35:1 / English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1

Additional info:

The slipcase and dual slipcover set includes:

• 40-page perfect-bound book featuring essays by Phillip Escott, Filipe Furtado, and Esther Rosenfield

WENDIGO info & extras:

• 2-disc Set: 4K Ultra HD / Region A Blu-ray
• 4K UHD presented in Dolby Vision High-Dynamic-Range
• Newly scanned & restored in 4K from its 16mm original camera negative
• Brand new commentary track with writer/director Larry Fessenden, moderated by Justin Laliberty
• Brand new commentary track with film critic Simon Abrams
• Archival commentary track with writer/director Larry Fessenden
• Archival commentary track with actors Patricia Clarkson, Jake Weber, and John Speredakos
• "Searching for the Wendigo" (32 min) - an archival making-of documentary
• "A New Hallucination" (8 min) - an archival featurette with writer/director Larry Fessenden on Wendigo
• Sales trailer for an animated Wendigo TV series with an introduction by Larry Fessenden (3 min)
• Alternate ending for Wendigo (7 min)
• Original video trailer
• Glass Eye Pix sizzle reel from 2010 (3 min)
• "Santa Claws" (5 min) - a short film by Larry Fessenden
• Reversible sleeve artwork
• English SDH subtitles

THE LAST WINTER info & extras:

• 2-disc Set: 4K Ultra HD / Region A Blu-ray
• 4K UHD presented in Dolby Vision High-Dynamic-Range
• Newly scanned & restored in 4K from its 35mm digital intermediate negative
• Brand new commentary track with writer/director Larry Fessenden, moderated by Justin Laliberty
• Brand new commentary track with author & critic Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
• Archival commentary track with writer/director Larry Fessenden
• "Making The Last Winter" (107 min) - a feature-length archival making-of documentary
• Interview with co-writer/director Larry Fessenden, conducted in 2015 by journalist Adam Nayman (22 min)
• Archival behind-the-scenes footage from the production (18 min)
• Glass Eye Pix promotional reel from 2015 (4 min)
• Reversible sleeve artwork
• English SDH subtitles