Ending addiction begins with a chase.
Sugar Studios L.A. and Dark Mode Films will release the psychological drug-fueled horror Habitual, the second feature film from writer/director Johnny Hickey (Oxy-Morons) in theaters and VOD platforms on Friday, November 13th.
In the film, "A fistful of drug popping ravers swallow what leads to a hell bent trip to "The Habit," an underground rave party, being held at an abandoned lunatic asylum in Salem Massachusetts. Plans to party all night drastically morph into chaotic hallucinations of the rave being buried deeper and deeper within a mind bending structure of massive abandonment. Decrepit walls and stairwells built to keep insanity captive, separate the group into a spiral of horrifying paradoxes, splicing nightmares into reality. In the end, one person's insanity is the others reality."
Hickey stars in Habitual alongside MTV's "The Challenge" star Chris "C.T." Tamburello, Ally Doody, Emilee Fitzpatrick, Anthony Hoang, Sabrina Kennedy and Jaylee Hickey.
The film is produced by Thomas Walton (Room 9), Mike Kalil, Keith Shaffer, Jared Safier, Bob Turner and Ashwin Jacob.
The press release explains, "For Habitual, Hickey kept the theme in his macabre wheelhouse, but also dove much deeper into horror territory in order to capture the nightmare of the current fentanyl scourge."
"Hickey wanted Habitual to be in the world of the drug epidemic, but he didn’t want it to be a true event movie [like Oxy-Morons], making the real underlying message that drugs are always going to be here whether you like it or not, and more than ever young people around the world need to think twice before taking them. Anti-drug bona fides aside, Habitual is no after-school special. This film is a bloodbath highlighted with intense make-up effects and some seriously horrifying backdrops."
"Hickey and his team were able to film at the abandoned Westborough State Asylum, as well as a comparably haunting complex on the grounds of Tewksbury State Hospital's old asylum for the criminally insane. While the film targets the horror genre, it's a psychological drug thriller that taps into Johnny Hickey's niche storytelling of the collateral damage done by drug abuse."
Check out the trailer below.
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