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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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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.

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10/20/09
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Too much time passes before Habit pulls its plot together, and too much of the acting merits the description amateurish.

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05/20/03
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Larry Fessenden's impressive Habit takes a great deal of pleasure in ambiguously playing around with the vampire tradition.

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02/14/01
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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.

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Lisa Alspector
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The movie is done in a flat, realistic tone that is perfectly suited to the material.

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