A creation of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck''s "Project Greenlight 3,"
Feast is a B-movie and knows
it, and succeeds in delivering an entertaining
and gory story. Not necessarily scary and not always that funny, the movie is
not without its flaws, but it survives on its absurdity and its gross out tactics.
Feast takes place in a depressing bar in the middle of nowhere. When
a man only identified as "Hero" shows up claiming that there are monsters
after him and that they have to lock the tavern down immediately, the losers
inside the bar are rather dubious - until the mysterious man gets decapitated
by one of the creatures. Immediately, this unlikely group bands together, albeit
not always smoothly, to save themselves from the blood-thirsty creatures that
dwell outside and attempt to determine how to escape once and for all.
The movie has no extremely memorable moments, but it is consistently decent
from beginning to end. From its stop-screen introduction of characters to the
rather good monster design to the goofy elements (one man becomes infected with
monster spit and slowly starts dying, which leads to parts of his body rotting
away and his bad eye to become infested with maggots), it has enough laughs
and "scares" to keep you entertained. Probably the best part of the
movie is that it has no mercy for any of its characters, regardless of who the
actor is or what the character''s age is. The self-described hero of the movie
is killed within the first ten minutes, and the youngest cast member, a kid,
is killed not long after that (later in the movie the director stops to point
out that the mother is doing surprisingly well since her only child was recently
mauled to death and eaten by an alien monster). No one is safe, and that makes
this horror movie more enjoyable.