
Jack Fessenden
Writing
Known For

In the sleepy town of Centerville, the lives of a number of interconnected characters are disrupted by the undead.
The Dead Don't Die

A family from the city decide to spend a weekend away at a friend's country farmhouse. But a fluke accident sets off a chain of events that alters their lives forever and conjures up the ferocious spirit of the Wendigo.
Wendigo

A field surgeon suffering from PTSD after combat in the Middle East creates a living human out of body parts in his Brooklyn lab.
Depraved

In the Arctic region of Northern Alaska, an oil company's advance team struggles to establish a drilling base that will forever alter the pristine land. After one team member is found dead, a disorientation slowly claims the sanity of the others as each of them succumbs to a mysterious fear.
The Last Winter

An anthology of nine horror shorts filmed under the social distancing and self-isolation requirements of the COVID-19 outbreak.
Isolation

Unfolding over the span of 36 hours in three separate wars – The American Civil War, World War I, and Iraq – FOXHOLE follows five soldiers confined in a foxhole as they grapple with morality, futility, and an increasingly volatile combat situation. Casting the same five actors in each episode, the film depicts the shifting roles of race and gender over time against the backdrop of the seemingly endless human struggle for power and domination. (Olivia Belluck)
Foxhole

A young woman slowly goes crazy after taking a job as the caretaker for an ancient New York home.
Darling

In upstate New York, two teenage boys are tasked with cleaning out their father's old mobile home on an abandoned property, but the boys are in for a surprise when they discover three crooks on the run have taken refuge in the trailer.
Stray Bullets

As a mysterious virus starts affecting middle America, a young boy films his father, a butcher, for a school project.
Stake Land: Origins
Lance is a sprinkler contractor in a drought-stricken desert boomtown whose life converges with a criminal duo, led by Abdi, who are hunting for a corpse that has resurfaced on the banks of a receding reservoir. Caught in a web of escalating tensions, false accusations, and buried secrets, Lance, his wife Elana, and estranged son Noah must navigate the pull of shady developer Whip, who partners with Saudi investors on a thirsty alfalfa growing venture, threatening the community’s dwindling water supply.
Alfalfa
A feature length documentary on the making of Larry Fessenden's Blackout (2023) released on the Dark Sky Selects Blu-Ray
Blackout - Behind the Scenes

Riding Shotgun, a short film directed by Jack Fessenden, is about two teenage boys, Atticus and Max, who spend their days bickering over the little things, while all around them the big thing is closing in...
Riding Shotgun
Jason and Nikolai, two close friends, set out on an adventure with newcomer Will, when something goes terribly wrong.
All for One

Hayes struggles to fit in with his live action roleplaying friends, but his discovery of a blue dress transforms a game of pretend into a journey of gender discovery.