{"id":46416,"date":"2025-08-05T21:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T21:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/46416\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T21:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T21:19:08","slug":"trauma-larry-fessenden-wraps-secret-monster-mashup-sequel-to-habit-depraved-and-blackout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/46416\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Trauma’ – Larry Fessenden Wraps Secret Monster Mashup Sequel to ‘Habit,’ ‘Depraved,’ and \u2018Blackout\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Indie horror master Larry Fessenden has secretly shot Trauma, a monster mashup sequel that unites three of Fessenden\u2019s monsters in one film, Variety<\/a> reports today.<\/p>\n

Larry Fessenden\u2019s\u00a0Trauma Or, Monsters All serves as a sequel to three monster movies that he\u2019s written and directed: 1995\u2019s vampire movie Habit<\/a>, the 2019 Frankenstein riff Depraved<\/a>, and his 2023 werewolf feature Blackout<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When we previously spoke with the filmmaker about the latter<\/a>, he shared his desire to see how all three monsters would fare in one monster mashup feature. \u201cNo, what I\u2019m more interested in, I could just say this, is doing a mashup, and that would probably end my business of recreating the Universal Monsters. I want to see them all together, and what would that look like? So, that\u2019s actually what I\u2019m thinking about, and I don\u2019t know who would finance that.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the upcoming Trauma, that project becomes a reality.<\/p>\n

Fessenden reprises the role of Sam from Habit, while Alex Breaux returns to portray Adam from Depraved, and Alex Hurt revives his role as Charley from Blackout.<\/p>\n

Also starring are La\u00ebtitia Hollard (\u201cThe Pitt\u201d), Aitana Doyle (\u201cIf That Mockingbird Don\u2019t Sing\u201d), and returning actors from Fessenden\u2019s past films, including Addison Timlin, James Le Gros, John Speredakos, Cody Kostro, Marc Senter, Rigo Garay, Joseph Castillo-Midyett, Joshua Leonard, and Barbara Crampton.<\/p>\n

As for plot, the logline reads that Trauma \u201cplaces the filmmaker\u2019s beloved visions of this\u00a0trio of ghouls under one roof, offering up an unexpectedly humanist and uncanny tale.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a slightly absurd mission to present my existential take on these monsters in a contemporary mashup, but I enjoyed the challenge and I hope the film will feel both familiar and provocative,\u201c Fessenden said in a statement, which also shared that he is \u201ca lifelong fan of Universal Monster classics and the powerful messages about us that they can convey.\u201d<\/p>\n

The shoot quietly took place on and off in upstate New York over three months and is now in post-production. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indie horror master Larry Fessenden has secretly shot Trauma, a monster mashup sequel that unites three of Fessenden\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,26135,2839,7814,26136,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-46416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-larry-fessenden","tag-movies","tag-trauma","tag-trauma-or-monsters-all","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}