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10 years after: Halloween 2007, HABIT finds a place on the shelf with other seasonal classics.     Glass Eye Pix would like to invite you (and 100 of your closest friends) to spend a little time ... in Sam's world.   HABIT is available on DVD and VHS at affordable prices NOW!! DVD contains a half hour of additional programming, including MAKING HABIT, THEATRICAL TRAILER and a music video by JUST DESSERTS. Buy your DVD player today! Distributed by Fox Lorber Home Video. The new 13 track CD from Just Desserts is now available through glasseyepix.com, Borders, and amazon.com. Includes songs from HABIT.   Anna from Habit joins the who's who of the undead in THE VAMPIRE GALLERY, a catalogue of bloodsuckers by Dracula and religion scholar J. Gordon Melton. The volume is fresh off the press from Visible Ink and available at bookstores and of course, amazon.com "self-distribution" Habit was distributed theatrically in the U.S. for over a year by Glass Eye Pix & Passport Cinemas which means 2 people, Larry Fessenden and Michael Ellenbogen booking and promoting the film, fighting for screen time and press. In May '98, booking was taken over by Planet Pictures. HABIT was screening in some corner of the country every day for a full year from October 29 1997 until Halloween 1998 when it became available on video through Fox Lorber. Our grass-roots publicity was generated by a network of supporters, critics, festivals, venders, volunteers and fans combining to give the film a public life. Some of our newspaper campaigns: Chicago, L.A., and New York. Promotion & Publicity We made trading cards ("collect all eight") and matches to promote the film. They were given out free. We distributed about 7000 cards. In 20 years I figure they'll be laying around at yard sales in Boulder, Colorado. Where We Played HABIT had its commercial premier at Factets Cinematheque in Chicago March 21, 1997. HABIT opened October 29 1997 at Llaemle's Music Hall in L.A. and expanded to four additional venues including United Artists Theaters in Torrence and Woodland Hills and midnights at Llaemle's Sunset 5 HABIT opened in New York City on November 14 at Cinema Village. Additional NY engagements included Midnights at Angelika Film Center Brooklyn Heights Twin, and the Thalia at 96th Street Cinema Village in NYC, and our poster campaign in L.A. we also played: Angelika film Center, Houston, Texas Real Art Ways, Hartford, CONN Dobie Theater, Austin, Texas Lobo Theater, Albuquerque, NM University Of Colorado, Boulder, CO Uptown Screen, New Orleans The Capri, Anchorage, Alaska High Museum, Atlanta, GA Fine Arts, Kansas City, KS Cornell Cinema, Ithaca, NY Bloor Cinema, Toronto, Canada Alliance Cinema, Miami, FLA Cornell Cinema, Ithaca, NY Grand Illusion, Seattle, WA Ragtag Film Series, Columbia, MO Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor, MI Neighborhood Theater, Philadelphia, PA Hippodrome, Gainesville, FL and many other venues. ARREST!! NYC, December 4 1997 1AM. Fessenden & Ellenbogen are arrested and thrown in jail for wheat pasting Habit Posters on Houston Street. We were spreading the word about Fri/Sat Midnight shows at the Angelika Film Center. Three undercover cops swerved up in an unmarked car. We were cuffed and taken to the precinct. One of the three undercover cops says to us, "I guess you didn't get into Sundance." Then they told us about a script idea they'd been tossing around. They took us to the precinct where they film NYPD Blue and threw us in a cell with eight other guys. We spent an hour and a half in the cell getting processed and printed. We gave HABIT trading cards to the other prisoners, who were taken away in a chain of handcuffs. Some were going away for a long time. We were the last to leave at 3:00 Am. We asked the cops to take this picture. We were charged with "graffitiing" city property. NYC, February 6, 1998 And so my brothers and only friends, viddy well with your own glassies, how it came to pass that your humble narrator and his hapless droogie were sentenced to a day of community service after pleeding the case two times before a judge. So There we were, bent over in Tomkins Square Park, getting the old in-out from the authorities, and we were cured, oh my brothers, we were cured. Some thank yous: Bob Hawk, Peter Broderick, Charles Coleman, IFP West, IFP, FilmCore & NY Underground Film Festival, The Llaemles, Cinema Village the theaters that show us, the Festivals that took us. Thanks to the critics who have supported the film. Our L.A. Publicity and Morale Team: Tom Harris and (pictured) Ellenbogen, Margot Gerber, Lance In New York: Heather Glassberg Donna Cusamano Cast & Crew Quentin Dunne Matt Marello at Kim's Video Two Boots Video Cinema Village Nation people at Nada New York Hangover Phil Higgs aka PHIGS Many others I can't think of right now. FEEDBACK Did you see Habit? Did you like it? Did you think it sucked? How did you hear about it? Do you have a habit? Send us some e-mail and we'll post it.

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