Simeon Halligan, the director of Splintered (2010) and of White Settlers (2014), he was responsible for the screenplay and direction of a new horror film titled Habit (UK - 2017), a film adaptation of Stephen McGeagh's novel of the same name. The film is scheduled for release in early 2018.
Meanwhile, we point out the first trailer, poster and some stills.
Plot: Michael (Elliot James Langridge) is an unemployed boy who is under the spell of the night and those who live it. An encounter with a girl will lead him to discover feelings he has never experienced and to be attracted to the dark secret his new friends share. A secret that will create physical and psychic dependence but also much pain.
In the cast of Habit: Elliot James Langridge (Let's be Evil), Jessica Barden (Penny Dreadful, The Lobster), William Ash (The Tunnel, Hush), Roxanne Pallett (Wrong Turn 6), Joanne Mitchel (Before Dawn), Sally Carman, Louis Emerick, Robert Beck, Andrew Ellis, Emmanuel Ighodaro, and Mark Sheals.
Habit has already been selected in several horror festivals including: Lund Fantastic Film Festival (Sweden), GrimmFest (Manchester UK), Mayhem (Nottingham UK), Cambridge Film Festival (UK), Celluloid Screams (Sheffield, UK), NYC Film Festival (New York) and many others.
The trailer for Habit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKuqvy-po0I&feature=youtu.be&t=5s
