A group of strangers in a bar are suddenly attacked by a bunch of monsters who wants to feast on them. Trapped inside the bar, the group has to use all they can think of as weapons against the beasts who are killing them off one by one.
Feast didn't have too much of a story to offer, but instead it focused on providing splatter, entertainment and is first and most a movie that you should check out if you're up for some good-looking mindless fun. Not even 15 minutes into the movie, mayhem is at hand and limbs and guts are flying across the screen, people are being ripped apart, and it's basically a gorehounds wet dream come true. Then it slows down a bit until Henry Rollins who played a great character puts one dead monster on a stick and sticks it out the window only to show the creatures outside what they're dealing with, and that is mankind. Unlucky for the group, the dead monster turns out to be a baby and after that little incident, hell is unleashed upon the group who has to struggle and fight for survival. One thing I really liked early on was the fact that there were a lot of people in the bar to begin with, and so some of them could be killed right away without leaving to few left to root for.
Early on, Feast had this Tarantino feel to it or rather this From Dusk Till Dawn feel, since the group are trapped inside a bar, fighting evil monsters. But there were so much going on in Feast that you soon forgot about that and instead just enjoyed the movie for what it had to offer, which was quite a lot. Throughout the film, one was treated to almost non-stop action, and this combined with massive amounts of gore and splatter made for one really entertaining ride. Even though it slowed down a bit once in a while, it didn't take many minutes before there were chaotic blood-splattering scenes to get excited by yet again and again.
 
When I first started to watch it, some of the characters came off as a bit too macho and I was afraid that it was gonna go like that all the way through, luckily it didn't. And even though the characters had no real depth, you still got to know them a bit which was absolutely enough, since this was not the type of flick that you'd watch for the sake of deep characters that you would feel for, but instead for the action, monsters and mayhem alone. The way the characters were introduced were both good and bad at the same time I guess. Early on, when there was a new face on screen, the movie paused and showed some basic information in text about that specific character. That way, you got to know who each and everyone were right away and got that over with so that the film could put its focus on the action and horror instead, which it did. I guess this was a good thing to get that out of the way, but at the same time, I usually hate those type of things, just like I hate movies that explains what happened to all the characters after that it's over. No biggie though, and I guess it served a purpose.
Some of the killings or monster attacks if you prefer that, were pretty gruesome and that's a really positive thing since this is the type of stuff you wanna see when watching a flick like this. The gore was definitely there all the way through, but never really over-the-top so it looked ridiculous or anything like that, everything that had to do with that looked pretty much super-duper. Acting-wise I have no real complaints and thought that all of the cast members did a fine job. On the plus side is also that the movie looked very good, had a nice red tone to it and it seemed like it had a pretty high budget for a horror film. Anyway, it looked real sharp.
If I were you, which I'm not, I would defintely give Feast a go. Like I said before, it's mindless fun so don't expect anything too complex, but if you just wanna have a good time and get some great entertainment for your money, this one is well worth it.
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MOVIE YEAR: 2005
DIRECTOR: John Gulager
WRITING CREDITS: Marcus Dunstan, Patrick Melton
GENRE: Horror
CAST: Henry Rollins, Krista Allen, Eric Dane
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: 95 min
RATING: 7/10
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