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01/01/00
Habit (1997)
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Reviews Counted:18
Fresh:13
Rotten:5
Average Rating:6.4/10
Runtime: 1 hr 52 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: Autumn in New York. Alone and on the rebound, Sam finds solace in the arms of Anna, a stranger who draws him away from his friends and into a web of addiction and madness. Winner of the 1997... [More]
Starring: Larry Fessenden, Meredith Snaider, Aaron Beall, Patricia Coleman
Director: Larry Fessenden
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Reviews for Habit
1 - 18 (sorted by source)
This has been a good decade for movies about New York vampires.
10/20/09
Sam's suspicion that Anna is a vampire because she's anorectic, reticent, and only comes out at night prompts his best buddy to observe that Sam resembles a character in a bad movie -- as if the self-reference will deepen the obvious allusions.
01/01/00
Top CriticThe movie is done in a flat, realistic tone that is perfectly suited to the material.
01/01/00
Top CriticAbsolutely to be seen.
10/07/02
No review available.
08/17/05
Do we really need yet another vampire movie? Sure, about as much as we needed another movie about that ship that ruined a perfectly good iceberg.
12/06/05
The low budget shows, as does the lack of virtually any story to speak of.
01/01/00
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04/09/05
Always mesmerizing film has few faults.
01/01/00
No review available.
04/07/05
Larry Fessenden's impressive Habit takes a great deal of pleasure in ambiguously playing around with the vampire tradition.
02/14/01
Top CriticSeveral things make this film a surprisingly good sleeper.
01/01/00
Too much time passes before Habit pulls its plot together, and too much of the acting merits the description amateurish.
05/20/03
Fessenden’s minimalist film is tightly constructed to haunt without terrorizing, playing far deeper on our psyches than surface level horror
05/17/02
The film has a captivating style.
01/01/00
Despite its low budget, the assets of Fessenden's film include startlingly rich cinematography and an above-average cast, most of whom have roots in New York's downtown performance scene.
10/20/09
Another hip vampire drama set in New York's East Village, small budget indie Habit manages to impress with plausible scripting, first-rate performances and an unsettling mood of mounting dread.
10/20/09
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