Phillip, an obsessive Australian cyber crime investigator, spends his days tracking down sickos on the internet. One day he finds this feeder/gainer website, and becomes convinced that it has something more to it than what it at first shows. It seemed that a woman had mysteriously disappeared after that she hit the weight of 600 pounds. He traces the website to Toledo, Ohio in the US. But his boss doesn't see eye to eye with him, and so Phillip goes to Toledo on his own without support.
I've had Feed laying around for some time now, and to tell you the truth, I've actually been avoiding watching it for the fact that it seemed to be just too gross. It's not your normal type of horror movie, and neither does it have any horror movie scares in it, instead it's scary for what it actually shows, how sick this whole thing with feeders and gainers are, and the fact that things shown in the movie actually happens for real. To my big surprise though, it wasn't really as gross as I first had thought it would be. Not saying that it's not a bit gross, disgusting, repulsive, whatever you want to call it. But what I mean is, at least I had no problem sitting through it.
The movie starts off with Phillip entering a house, and in there finds one man eating another man. Cannibalism, but if they are both in on it, one wants to eat, one wants to be eaten, then is it not ok? The movie asks a couple of these questions, but that's another story that I won't go further into here. The movie itself of course deals a lot with these weird types of turn-ons, but also shows a lot of sex, some sadism, and add to that a disgusting feel like a thick layer over it all the way through.
 
But it's not a movie you'd watch just to feel disgusted by, then what's the point? Feed is actually a well-written fine piece of cinema, very different, and so needed in a sea of unoriginal horror flicks. It's something totally different from your normal type of horror, and different is always welcome, and when it's good as well, it's a pretty sweet deal. The acting is, if not as sweet, at least above decent and the movie looks kinda slick at times with different colours and some cool settings. Another pretty good thing was the score which was a mix of a lot of different genres, but that brought some more life and feeling into the movie.
One cool and different thing was that the movie didn't just deal with the nuts obsessed with feeding and gaining, but also with our good guy Phillip's sexual behaviour, which added a little extra to the whole cake. The ending is not really what you would expect, and that's always good. On the other hand, it's so different it doesn't leave room for any good guy any more, but I won't tell you how it ends though.
I would definitely like to recommend Feed, since it's different, interesting, and not just an all disgusting experience like one first might think it is. Except for a disturbing theme, it has a few disturbing scenes, but it's not really as bad as it sounds. And also, I would recommend staying of the hamburgers while watching this.
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MOVIE YEAR: 2005
DIRECTOR: Brett Leonard
WRITING CREDITS: Kieran Galvin
GENRE: Horror, Thriller
CAST: Patrick Thompson, Alex O'Loughlin, Rose Ashton
COUNTRY: Australia
RUNTIME: 109 min
RATING: 7/10
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