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.
Habit (1997)
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Reviews Counted:5
Fresh:3
Rotten:2
Average Rating:5.7/10
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... 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 Independent Spirit Award "Someone to Watch": Larry Fessenden (writer/director/star). [More]
Starring: Larry Fessenden, Meredith Snaider, Aaron Beall, Patricia Coleman
Starring: Larry Fessenden, Meredith Snaider, Aaron Beall, Patricia Coleman, Heather Woodbury, Jesse Hartman
Director: Larry Fessenden
Director: Larry Fessenden
Screenwriter: Larry Fessenden
Producer: Dayton Taylor
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Reviews for Habit
Too much time passes before Habit pulls its plot together, and too much of the acting merits the description amateurish.
Larry Fessenden's impressive Habit takes a great deal of pleasure in ambiguously playing around with the vampire tradition.
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.
The movie is done in a flat, realistic tone that is perfectly suited to the material.
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