UHM - Review

Feast is the brainchild of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck's Project Greenlight 3 reality TV series that aired last year, and is also apparently the last season. I never watched it before, so I didn't know what kind of film this was until pictures and more info started popping up online. This would have gotten an earlier and possibly wider theatrical release had the Weinstein Company not split with Disney, but since the split the release date was up in limbo for the longest time. It wasn't until earlier this year that it was announced to get a very limited theatrical run before hitting DVD shelves this October. Feast suffers the same fate as countless other movies did with Dimension Films -- the studio barely releases or promotes the film only to have it hit DVD quietly, with only word-of-mouth to back it up. If it weren't for us die-hard horror fanatics we'd probably never hear about this movie unless we passed by it at the shelf and taken a gamble at renting it. It's a sad fate, but hopefully the word will spread that Feast is no ordinary DVD horror flick.

Budgeted at a little over $3-million Feast delivers the goods in every aspect, from the awesome monsters and buckets of blood to the ballsy situations and interesting characters. This movie was clearly made to please us horror fans and it successfully does so, thanks to playing with the typical formula of a group of strangers trapped with monsters and adding twists that leave us guessing as to what's going to happen next. No one is spared in this film -- not even children, and that's what makes this stand out amongst all the others. Despite one of the creatures being on the cover art, we actually don't get a clear look at these beasts until the last 15-minutes. Before that the monsters wear animal hides and bones to keep themselves concealed. There's no real explanation as to where these monstrosities came to be, but this is one of those movies that puts slow-paced story-development aside and focuses squarely on the blood, guts, and action. Sometimes we need this kind of formula to break free from the boring bid-budgeted remakes that we're constantly receiving from the studios now-a-days. Feast hits DVD October 17th.

OVERALL

Feast is a ballsy gore-fest that adds twists to the typical genre formula, and spares no one from a bloody death. Not even children are safe from a good old-fashioned devouring; definitely recommended.

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Kenneth Terror :

Posted 51 days ago

Great movie - blood, humor and crazy looking monsters; and whenever Henry Rollins plays a motivational speaker, you know it’s going to be a good time.

Dark Spector1982 :

Posted 133 days ago

This movie may have the same thing as we all seen so many times before, but at least it is done right in a new way, the gore was sick and awesome!
So many new ways to kill a person, with those sick new creatures, ripping those humans apart was sick and loved every second of it!
Bring on the GORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Guts :

Posted 201 days ago

This is one of the greatest horror movies I have ever seen. We've all seen the trapped in a house surviving monsters thing a billion times over, but this movie somehow makes it great. I love how it labels ever single character and gives their life expectency. That's genius. I eagerly anticipate a sequal and hope to god it delivers like this one did.

Zach :

Posted 210 days ago

Hands down one of the best horror movies I've seen the last few years. It knows exactly the kind of movie it is and doesn't try to be anything else. Movies like this are not driven by story, they are driven by the characters and the ones in this movie are quite special. Some fit the horror stereotypes and others do not. This makes an interesting mix and the way these characters interact with one another is what makes this movie as good as it is.
But the blood is a nice bonus as well! ;)

Rai :

Posted 255 days ago

well i am not a big fan of unoriginal ideas, i mean this movie is kind of like "From dusk till dawn" but with monsters instead of vampires. That aside, as unoriginal as it might be, a good movie is a good movie, and this one delivers. The characters are very colorful, though a little cliché, but that's what makes this movie a lot of fun to watch, and the lifespan label on every character was just brilliant. I ove horror movies where no one is safe, and that is stated from the very beginning. Gory and fun to watch, a must see. Let`s just hope they don't fuck up the sequels.

Sean :

Posted 320 days ago

I did not like this film. It has been done so many times were people have been trapped inside a place with things out there trying to get them. Yes its gory, but gore does not make a good film. It's the story and the director that makes a good film, and if your into the film and I really was not into this film.

J Roark :

Posted 339 days ago

This movie was as funny as it was bloody. It should have come out to all movie theatres. What happens to the father creature is still disturbing, being fixed that way.

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