Habit

Habit (1997): This NYC Indy production about love, death, sanity (or lack thereof), and vampires is a good little flick. Written, directed, and acted by Larry Fessenden, it concerns a delusional alcoholic college student/artist/ bartender who falls for a girl he meets at a party. She turns out to be a little nipper…er…..ah…..well…..that is….she kind of nips you during passionate embraces and really starts to bite when you reach the aardvarking stage. Perhaps in this case its aardbiting? In any event, our hero gets weaker and weaker and has lots of intellectual conversations with his arty New Yoak City friends. Is it the inane conversations with his friends or the girl that is making him weak? Or is it the excessive drinking and for that matter what does she see in him if not just the red juice since he is semi-conscious most of the time. Is she a vampire or is he in a terminal alcoholic fog? Will the hero survive; perish from unnatural causes or perhaps by natural causes? That’s the question in this interesting little low budget movie. This should keep genre fans interested and you can really draw your own conclusions about what really happened. The movie is rated R for: Hero and Heroine nudity, aardvarking and aardbiting, high levels of red gel, New York traffic, old ferry boats, and vapid intellectuals.