*THIS REVIEW MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS*
In season 3 of Project Greenlight, Marcus Dunston and Patrick Melton (writers), as well as John Gulager (director) were selected as the winners, and got to make Feast.
Feast opens in a bar in the middle of a desert, where the patrons are doing normal bar things, like shooting pool and drinking. A man comes in covered in blood, with the head of some creature, and explains that there are 4 of these things, and they are hungry. He is asked who he is and he replies, “I’m the guy that is going to save your ass.” He is then immediately pulled through a window and eaten, the first one to die. His name? “Hero.” The rest of the film is spent watching the group band together and try to survive.
I liked the movie within the first minute. The characters are introduced one at a time with on-screen identification in the format of name, occupation, fun fact, and life expectancy. Some of the data that fills out these categories is quite hilarious. One character’s life expectancy is “dies a horrible death in 70 minutes.” Others falsely lead you to believe that the character may survive the film, so it is not entirely accurate. The movie is just good fun. Plenty of blood splatter and gore. Quality not at all affected by it’s limited budget. On the surface it is a pretty standard “modern” creature horror movie. Typical, group of people forced to work together and over come differences formula is used. Has all the usual stereotypes: old people, a drunk old person, a redneck, parent with child, pretty woman, dumb guy, etc. They all have descriptive names such as Heroine, Beer Guy and Harley Mom. The movie does however acknowledge it’s formulaic horror movie status by characters spouting lines like, “It’s been awhile since someone was killed, and it seems like it’s time for one of us to get offed.” It does a pretty good job of being fairly amusing while still being the cheesy gore fest you want to see. It also chooses to break formula at some points, by killing characters that, normally may not die, or if they did at least not as early in the film. I also found it hilarious that one of the group just completely abandons the rest of them out of nowhere. Feast is really just a good time and is humorous enough to make the gore not seem as offensive as it could be.
Obviously not any Oscar worthy performances, or anything like that, but sometimes you just want to watch a movie and enjoy the pure escapism of it. Feast is a fine film to use in that capacity.
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