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Review of Feast (Unrated Edition)
- From executive producers Wes Craven Ben Affleck Matt Damon and Chris Moore comes the incredible horror extravaganza Feast (Harry Knowles Ain t It Cool News) whose production was chronicled on the third season of Bravo s hit reality series Project Greenlight.When a motley crew of strangers find themselves trapped in an isolated tavern they must band together in a battle for survival against a family of flesh-hungry creatures. Terrifying and full of surprises Feast turns the screen blood red as the group is devoured one-by-one.Directed by first time filmmaker John Gulager the ensemble cast of rising stars includes Balthazar Getty (Alias) Henry Rollins (The Henry Rollins Show) Navi Rawat (The O.C. NUMB3RS) Josh Zuckerman (Surviving Christmas) Judah Friedlander (MTV2 s Wonder Showzen) Jason Mewes (Clerks II) Jenny Wade (Rumor Has It) and Krista Allen (HBO s Unscripted).Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR UPC: 796019795777 Manufacturer No: 79577
Product Description
- In need of some good old-fashioned gore? You'll find it by the bucketload in the low-budget monsterfest Feast, which arrives on DVD in an even bloodier unrated edition. The winning entry in the third season of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon's reality series/talent contest Project Greenlight (Wes Craven is also on board as an advisor/producer), Feast is a wall-to-wall splatterthon that operates on an agreeably simple premise: A crew of motley characters is trapped in a remote location (in this case, a desert bar) by ravenous, flesh-eating monsters (here, a quartet of toothy and astoundingly fecund humanoids). The result? Lots of gruesome deaths and plenty of manic action, delivered with kinetic style by first-time feature director John Gulager. Not everything about Feast works--Gulager's drive is thwarted by the unfocused script, which favors smarmy dialogue over substance--but the effects are impressive, given the film's price tag, and the cast is incredibly game for the gory goings-on, with Krista Allen (Entourage), Judah Friedlander (30 Rock), Balthazar Getty (Alias), and Gulager's father, veteran actor Clu Gulager, among the stand-outs. The DVD includes a smattering of outtakes and deleted scenes (including an alternate ending); commentary by Gulager, the screenwriters, and two of the film's numerous producers; and a making-of featurette, which Project Greenlight viewers should find interesting solely for producers Chris Moore and Michael Leahy's attitudes towards Gulager (both were a hair's breath away from firing him throughout the production, but here, amusingly suggest unconditional support). -- Paul Gaita
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Comments for Feast (Unrated Edition)
- Posted on 2008-10-11
more than decent horror flick...
The DVD cover for "Feast" always intrigued me when I'd see it in the local Blockbuster. I picked it up at Walmart on a whim last week for $5. I gotta say, hell of a deal. This is a very fun(ny) and very gory horror movie, with a surprising number of known (more or less) actors...including McSteamy from Grey's Anatomy, Henry Rollins, one of the girls from The O.C., Jay from "Jay and Silent Bob" and "Clerks"...some others as well. The plot is very straight forward...a group of people must band together in a bar to fend off monsters who are hell bent on eating them. The mayhem that ensues is sometimes scary, often times funny, and pretty much as gory as it gets. 4/5.
Score: 4
- Posted on 2008-10-06
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.
Score: 1
- Posted on 2008-08-20
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.
Score: 4 - Posted on 2008-08-09
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.
Score: 1 - Posted on 2008-07-31
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)".
Score: 5
