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'Feast' joins 'Snakes On a Plane' as a campy horror
film that knows it is campy and is damn proud of it. It
does not apologize for that fact and has a lot of fun with
it. The film was the subject of the third season of the
Bravo reality TV show 'Project Greenlight' by Ben Affleck
and Matt Damon. They even lent their name for a producer
credit along with horror master Wes Craven. I can only imagine
how entertaining it would have been if Affleck/Damon were
in this film.***
We open our story in a tavern located in a small town.
You have a group of locals played by Henry Rollins, Josh
Zuckerman, Jason Mewes, Krista Allen, Balthazar Getty, Jenny
Wade and many others. Everything appears to be normal at
this bar. People are playing pool, drinking, hitting on
women, and enjoying themselves. Just your ordinary night
at the bar, nothing too out of the abnormal.***
That is until a stranger arrives with the head of a
bizarre creature. The creature can best be described as
a cross being a pig, my ex-girlfriend, an alien, and a tremor
all in one. Now that is one ugly, ugly creature if I do
say so myself. They are coming for this town after being
let loose from a research facility. Everyone at the bar
must remain calm, survive, and fend off these hungry animals.
They love to eat humans.***
First time director Josh Gaulager is stylish behind
the camera and not shy about using blood, guts, and some
very neat costumes. The film has the look and design of
an 'Evil Dead' film or an old zombie movie from the 70s.
He also loves to expose cleavage and breasts and drench
every pretty woman in the film in pounds and pounds of blood.
I give major props to the costume and design of this film.
They really went all out and it shows.***
The writers also take time to throw in a lot of in
jokes and lighter moments along the way. The film never
takes itself too seriously. It also has some terror moments
of things jumping out of the blue. It helps that the creatures
in this film were damn ugly and slimy. I wish I knew what
they were. If they had a name or how to even describe them.
You just have to see them. It's not a pretty sight. The
film is able to blend comedy, camp, and real horror into
an entertaining, very gory, and fun horror film.*** ---
Image & Sound:
The Wide-screen transfer shows all the stylish gore
in a great looking DVD. It's at times a very dark, gloomy
and graphic horror film, but when it is time to show the
gore, the colors light up the screen.
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