Review of Feast (2005) by Steven N — 24 Dec 2008
Like most people who went out of their way to see "Feast," I was interested in it simply because of the season of "Project Greenlight" that featured it, and first time director John Gulager.
If you're not a lover of over-the-top gore, dark humor, and scenes that will make you say to yourself "the people who made this thing must be sick in the head," then I suggest you add something else to your queue and go on with your happy, non-gross moving loving life.
In "Feast" you've got weird monsters (guys in rubber suits) running around chopping limbs off, and humping everything in sight. Yes, I said humping. Women, dead animals, nothing is safe from these hump-tacular beasts.
Pre-teen kids are getting eaten, old people are eaten, and pretty much anything else than can be stuffed in a rubber monster head is eaten. All of this nonsense (some good and some bad) makes "Feast" one of the absolute strangest films I've seen in a long time.
There are two things though that save the film from being completely terrible. The first is the fact that Gulager actually knows how to shoot a scene, and the second is the fact that at no point does the movie ever try to take itself too seriously.
It knows what it's supposed to be, and never tries to be more than that. Horror/slatter flans will no doubt love "Feast" anyone else if going to want to write a letter to the studio after watching it.
While I personally don't think it's a great film, it accomplished what it set out to accomplish, and I enjoyed it for the most part.
This review of Feast (2005) was written by Steven N on 24 Dec 2008.
Feast has generally received mixed reviews.
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