Just say no! Easy words. Simplistic? Perhaps. In the 80s that weird First Lady who consulted astrologers told us this...alas, she had no credibility. Since then, presidential administrations and our intelligence services have snuggled up to the drug cartels that poison our cities. Fentanyl...mix it with ecstasy or cocaine...and you get death. You also get today's film...as that is what is going on in our horror film, 2019's "Habitual," directed by Johnny Hickey. Enjoy this metaphor of the lunacy that is the American mental health industry as personified by the picture below.
The Bridgewater Triangle. Most non Bay Staters don't know of this geographical oddity in which strange magnetic disturbances play with sanity. Simon (Hickey) is a total lunatic kept reasonably calm by psyche meds at the Bridgewater State Hospital...a psyche hospital. He's off his meds and escapes. Okay...some great looking Massachusetts youngsters are excited about a Rave party that will be held at a closed down asylum in Salem, Massachusetts. To prep for the Rave, they murder the only good guy in this film, Brett (Chris "CT" Tamburello). It is a sad part of the film near the very beginning. We'll be less sympathetic at the scores of other horrible deaths that will occur. The youngsters mix Fentanyl with another drug and Ecstasy...then go to the Rave. What happens next will have to be pieced together.
The babes won't be babes for long. Ashley (Ally Doody), Kim (Dottie Daigle), Naomi (Sabrina Kennedy), Ray Ray (Brittany Baldi) and a few more seem gone even before they take the drugs. Their existences are already ruined by their lifestyles. Even worse, them and their BFs, Thomas (Brandon Cappiello), Blake (Stanley Bruno), and Rob (Anthony Hoang) have committed the aforementioned murder and don't really seem to fret about it. The time for the Rave arrives and our miscreants get wasted and never make it into the concert. Instead, they are chased through the asylum by a demon called Blight...and maybe Simon, you'll see. Blight puts them through gory torture and mutilation. A great metaphor for the Fentanyl and other drugs. Ripped apart, caught in beartraps, disembowelment, and more await them...or does it.
Okay, this is a vicious and graphic one. Is Simon the escaped lunatic set up to be the moral compass in a world of youths wasted on Fentanyl and ecstasy? Are these evil Rave-kids already in Hell? Is Blight a demon or the natural progression of their collective imaginations come to take them away? Gory, violent, shocking, see "Habitual" and witness a compelling reason to JUST SAY NO!
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