Leave it to indie legend Larry Fessenden to make the ultimate love letter to classic horror. Bringing together his takes on a vampire (played by Fessenden himself), a Frankenstein’s-monster-esque creation (Alex Breaux) and a werewolf (Alex Hurt) from his films HABIT (1997), DEPRAVED (2019) and BLACK OUT (2023), respectively, Fessenden culminates his own Universal-Monster-inspired “monsterverse” with TRAUMA OR, MONSTERS ALL, in which a young writer (Laëtitia Hollard from THE PITT) moves in to the small Upstate New York town of Talbot Falls and finds herself in the middle of that monstrous triptych. In true Fessenden fashion, it’s as much of a horror creepshow as it is a profound examination of lost souls, societal fractures and how man can be the scariest monster of all. —Matt Barone