Title: HabitDirector: Larry Fessenden
Starring: Larry Fessenden, Meredith Snaider
Runtime: 112 minutes
Year: 1997
Source: Generation X Video
We start out being introduced to Sam [Fessenden], a mexican restaurant manager and 24/7 alcoholic. He's so far failing hard in life, his leading lady just left him, plus he's not the best looking boy on the block. Introduce Anna [Snaider], a cocky little lady who's also quite the hottie. For some bizarre reason she sets her eyes on Sam, the two then proceed to bang out like little bunnies. Repeatly. Actually the bang out sessions tend to take up a good chunk of the movie. Bang out, suck blood, sleep, hung over... repeat. Fun, eh? No wonder Larry cast himself in his movie, he gets to get naked with quite the hottie.
This movie has been recommended to me about 4 times, so when I saw it on the shelf at Gen X, I had to rent it. I kinda wanna kick those that recommended it to me, or at least toss rotten vegetables at them. It was tough to watch this start to finish and took a few attempts to finish it off. That kind of speaks volumes, right?
Not recommended.
j.
ps. Still sick. But I went back to work today[been off since Friday!], so that's a plus, right? I'll catch up on BlogLand, comments, and related goodness later. In the meantime, bring me some soup? :)
6 comments:
Terrible film. Fessenden is about as overrated as they come. Of course when you consider how few people know who he is, maybe overrated is not the right word. However, he shouldn't have the cult status that has been awarded to him.
His follow-up to this, "Wendigo," is okay for about two-thirds of the way through, and then pretty much takes a royal crap on itself at the end. His most recent epic, the global warming horror film, "The Last Winter," is ludicrous. But if you're in the mood to watch Ron Perlman getting attacked by a mutated moose ghost, I guess it would be worth the rental.
After watching Habit I don't really have any motivation to see anymore of his films, just not a fan. I was surprised at just how much I didn't like it considering how many people raved about it. Usually when quite a few people give a release glowing reviews, I can at least see why, even if I don't agree. But I'm lost with this one. I can't believe there was a follow-up to this, I can't seem to see a single reason for it.
Maybe the mutated moose scene will hit YouTube, haha.
I watched "Wendigo" after seeing it recommended highly on several horror sites, and couldn't have been more underwhelmed. Characters I didn't care about doing things that weren't interesting, and the supernatural element so underplayed as to be unnecessary. Fessenden's movies are often touted as "a thinking horror fan's movie," implying that if you don't like them it means you're some kind of retarded mouth-breather with the attention span of a gnat. Not so, say I--he's just crap.
"Wendigo" had the youngest kid from "Malcolm in the Middle" in it, though, and he was good. But he was just there for a shortcut to sympathy. "Oh, look! A cute kid with a terrible family life! You MUST be emotionally involved now!" Sorry, Larry, I need a good story too.
Still in all, I might check this one out just for the banging scenes. I'm a mouth-breather myself that way. :)
I was heading to the Fangoria Con in Burbank a few years ago and ran into Angus "Tall Man" Scrimm out front in the parking lot. We were talking for awhile (I was in heaven of course) and suddenly some guy walked up and started talking to him too. He was nice and Scrimm seemed to know him somehow. After a while the guy handed me a camera and asked me to snap a few photos of him and Angus together so I did. We all parted ways eventually and that was that. Later inside the con I saw the guy again and I heard someone go, "Oh that's Larry Fessenden over there."
So yeah, he's definitely a medicore filmaker but still earns a few bonus points for being a Phantasm Phanboy like myself.
Vicar - With the whole "thinking horror fan's movie", people need to still be entertained. Some of the most straight forward movies I've watched have got more of a response in way of thinking than this stinker [or anything attempting to be a 'thinking' movie]. The only thing I was thinking was, "shit, I just wasted $5.50" even with the bang out scenes.
The little kid in Malcom is too cute and I'd easily trade up my younger sibling for him. Too bad I don't think I'll venture into seeing that release, money saved.
Karswell - Was he missing his tooth in real life too? ;)
>Was he missing his tooth in real life too? ;)
Yep, Snaggletooth City.
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