Released in 2005, Feast was one of the more inventive and original horror films of the past few years, executively produced by Wes Craven, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon.
If you haven’t seen it you don’t really need to in order to watch this sequel but it’s still a decent horror flick – at least for the less squeamish of you out there.
In the original film a group of misfits fought for their lives when the bar that they frequented set in a middle-American backwater was set upon by flesh-eating, sex-hungry monsters. The few survivors (I’ll not tell you who) are back for seconds.
After their nail-biting escape they would have been best advised to flee the town or even the country, because now the monsters are back with even bigger appetites and they are set to take on the whole town!
Feast is clearly trying to be a little bit different to the average zombie/monster film. It’s trying to depict what might really happen if monsters or zombies or aliens attacked. Would you save the girl next door? Or would you run for your own life? Feast 2 is about the survivors looking after themselves – there’s no room for sentimentality here and there’s no room for you in my hiding place either, even if you are some sexy biker chicks – you’re not welcome find your own place! It’s a welcome change to watching the male hero get all doe-eyed about the sexy girl he just met.
The acting and direction are fine, nothing to blow you away but nothing terrible either. There are of course some negatives, firstly I should mention that just before the half hour is up there is a very nasty scene where a guy smashes a girls head repeatedly into a toilet bowl, she has of course crossed him in the original film but it’s still a little too graphic for my liking. Some of the storyline is also just plain daft and the monsters look bloody horrendous – maybe they are supposed to – but they look a bit cheap to me.
If you can see past the occasional flaws then there is still a lot of decent meat to feed on here, assuming you’re not a vegetarian that is.
