Writers: Marcus Dunstan, Patrick Melton
Director: John Gulager
Released: 2005
Labels: Comedy|Gore|Monster
Monster Movie Checklist:
Director: John Gulager
Released: 2005
Labels: Comedy|Gore|Monster
Monster Movie Checklist:
1. Violent monsters with a thirst for blood.....check.
2. A mismatched band of heroes, villains and dumbasses
that have to team up to fight for survival......check.
3. A remote setting leaving our victims totally isolated (also
a cheap location shoot)........check.
4. An inconceivable amount of blood and fluids to be
ejected from said victims......check.
So everything seems to be in place for a great, gory time...however, Feast (2005) just manages to fall short of being the complete package.
The base humor is clunky and does not sit particularly well amongst the slickly directed action and gore it is achieved much more successfully in 'From Dusk til Dawn' or even in the more recent 'Zombieland'. Occasionally we are given scenes of sentimentality, but we just don't care about the characters enough for that to engage us.
It must be said though, as a straight up crazy, smash-and-grab monster movie it does deliver the goods, the effects, which appear to have little or no CGI, are excellent and the originality of some of the gorier moments are delightfully sick (ever seen an alien baby monster face-f**k a mutilated human-bomb woman?.. Nope, neither had we!).
The base humor is clunky and does not sit particularly well amongst the slickly directed action and gore it is achieved much more successfully in 'From Dusk til Dawn' or even in the more recent 'Zombieland'. Occasionally we are given scenes of sentimentality, but we just don't care about the characters enough for that to engage us.
It must be said though, as a straight up crazy, smash-and-grab monster movie it does deliver the goods, the effects, which appear to have little or no CGI, are excellent and the originality of some of the gorier moments are delightfully sick (ever seen an alien baby monster face-f**k a mutilated human-bomb woman?.. Nope, neither had we!).
The monsters were cool in design, wearing roadkill as clothing to start with and eventually revealing themselves to be fang-toothed muscular bi-peds (think 'Alien' had a love child with a mutant from 'I Am Legend').
The cast consists of a few familiar faces, Balthazar Getty, Henry Rollins and Krista Allen for example, all of which play their roles satisfactorily. The recent version of Piranha (also from Dimension films) was a similar comedy splatterfest and the two films have a lot in common, so if you enjoyed Piranha then you should def check this one out......
Feast Trailer
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