Feast (2006)

Gore but boring as hell.

Ok, I am a huge fan of gore films and I love horror movies. The Exorcist? Loved it. Hellraiser? Can't get enough of it. But, I watched this movie back when it first came out on dvd thinking it was going to be awesome. It definitely delivered on gore and shocking scenes. On the other hand it really didn't make much sense. To me many of the scenes were pointless. And, I just kept asking myself "Really?" If you want a ton of gore and blood with a boring story line and don't really care about a plot. Then this movie is definitely for you. I now hear there is a second one and will be third. I'll be sure to walk right by them in the video store. October 6, 2008

Hungry? Why wait?

I think we're at a point now where expecting something new or original from a horror movie is just kind of foolish. Sure, there are some original ideas out there but they usually end up falling victim to cliched situations or character development and ultimately become a self parody.

When it comes to Feast, the movie itself is rather entertaining. Again, originality isn't something this film oozes with, but it does offer lots of bloodshed, horny monsters and Henry Rollins in pink sweat pants. A twisting combination of horror and comedy, the movie runs at a pretty smooth pace even though the entire movie takes place at one location.

If you don't take this movie too seriously and take it at face value, it's actually a pretty fun and enjoyable watch.



August 20, 2008

Wes Craven should be hit in the face with a shovel . .

...for helping to make this movie. Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are high-functioning morons, so they can't be blamed, but Wes Craven should know better.

My wife and I love horror, but this crapfest is a joke. We got it in the $5 bin at Wal-Mart, hoping for a fun evening. Instead, for an almost endless fifteen minutes, the movie introduces nearly twenty-seven characters with annoying freeze-frames and trying-to-be-cool printed onscreen profiles:

Name-Ugly Waitress.
Occupation-just doesn't care anymore.
Life Expectancy-dead as soon as the director can find a way to drop her on a chainsaw.

Five minutes later, most of the introduced characters were killed by a rubber puppet monster in the jerkiest camera shots I've ever seen, and my wife had left to read a book. This movie was made by twelve year old boys who found some cocaine and a few thousand dollars of fake blood.

Fifty years from now, on my deathbed, my last wish will be that Wes Craven gives me back my five dollars. August 9, 2008

Spectacular monster feast!

In the middle of nowhere at a bar, the costumers even the Bartender (Clu Gulager from "Return of the Living Dead") were enjoying their evening of booze and fun until a man comes in and warns them all about a group of mysterious flesh-eating monsters who are about to attack them all. But they didn't believe him until one of the costumers gets eaten by one of the beasts, it turns into a living nightmare as they must try to fight to survive, battle these weird creatures and get the hell out.

Exciting and gory as hell horror comedy romp that is one of the better horror movies of late and has the potential to be a cult fave. Sure the film is quite plotless and there's no explanation of where the monsters come from but this does offer some good quality entertainment for the horror fan. The film co-stars Dwayne Witaker ("Pulp Fiction"), Judah Friedlander (Wonder Showzen), Henry Rollins, and Balthazar Getty ("Alias") with Clu's brother John Gulager as the director of this movie with Wes Craven, Ben Affeleck, Matt Damon and Chris Moore as executive producers. The creatures in this movie are quite HP Lovecraft-esque as they are all done by animatronics rather then CGI and the gore effects are so over the top such as the eyeball ripping sequence for instance that you'll need an umbrella to prevent more blood from spilling. This movie was chronicled on Bravo's TV reality series "Project Greenlight" and now that movie has became a reality, fans of gore and horror comedies will have a funny and bloody fun time with this romp.

This DVD contains the unrated version with more gore then before and has good extras like audio commentary, two featurettes, trailers and deleted scenes.

Also recommended: "From Dusk Till Dawn", "Re-Animator", "Dead Alive (Braindead)", "Evil Dead 2", "The Mist", "From Beyond", "Demons", "C.H.U.D.", "Dawn of the Dead (1978 and 2004)", "The Toxic Avenger", "Basket Case", "House (1986)", "Evil Dead", "Bride of Re-Animator", "Pumpkinhead", "Hatchet", "Night of the Living Dead (1968 and 1990)", "Day of the Dead (1985)", "Land of the Dead", "Diary of the Dead", "Street Trash", "Shaun of the Dead", "The Blob (1988)", "Bad Taste", "Slither", "Frontier(s)", "Wicked City", "The Ruins", "The Descent", "Cemetery Man", "Grindhouse", "Q: The Winged Serpent", ""The Stuff", "Demon Knight", "The Host" and "The Hills Have Eyes (1977 and 2006)". July 31, 2008

Not too bad

I purchased this HD-DVD because of the price and I had watched the making of the movie during Project Greenlight. I was interested to see how the move turned out after all the problems that were on the set during it's filming. I'm not a huge fan of horror films, but this wasn't that bad. The performances by the ensemble cast did a decent job pulling it off. The directing was OK as was the script. I didn't find the movie all that frightening or suspenseful. I guess since I knew what it was about, it kind of took away from the suspense. Not a bad first movie for Gulager's first directing gig. The movie takes place in a dive bar out the middle of no where. The bar is besieged by a group of aliens/monsters (not sure which) who are trying to get to the patrons of the bar. The people in the bar must fight off the monsters in various ways. It wasn't a bad movie considering I only paid $9 for it from Amazon. July 29, 2008

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