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  • First - let's clarify a few things which people seem to be confused about.

    * Feast's budget was about $3,000,000.00, not $1 million.

    * I am not sure whether the word "independent" should be used for a film which required (I assume) voluntary (donations?) 'production' efforts from Harvey Weinstein, Wes Craven, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. "Project Green-Light" or not. It's really too bad that their hourly rates don't show up in the reported budgets for projects such as this - would help to clarify a lot of misunderstandings regarding the nature of allegedly independent, supposedly low-budget releases.

    * The cast is far from a group of of nobodies. Look them up right here on IMDb. For a supposed low-budget film, Feast relies very heavily on name-recognition and star power.

    John Gulager does a very nice job of telling a claustrophobic, absurd, but fun tale of terror and gore in "Feast". It's an old story, but,in this case, it's told very well.

    A bar full of archetypal jerks, losers and heroes are startled by a would-be hero's (Eric Dane) violent, blood-soaked entry into the bar with a gun and an attitude. The hero announces that the bar is just about to be attacked by four angry monsters with razor-sharp claws and teeth. The audience is almost immediately introduced to the film's audience participation game. Here are the (unstated, but easily understood) challenges:

    * Understand that what is going to happen in this film is obvious and that we've seen it all before.

    * The game is to figure out who gets it next

    * If you're really good - try guessing how they are going to get it too.

    The casting, editing and directing make this film worth watching. The script is fine for what it is, but that isn't saying a whole lot. And the acting is uniformly good - again, for what it is. Watching Henry Rollins ironically playing a self-help con artist with obvious problems of his own, Clu Gallagher comically reprising the roll of the ancient bartender and erstwhile retired gunfighter in a very unlikely isolated desert context, Balthazar Getty as the "Town Jackass", and Navi Rawat as the tough chick mom on a mission is well... just a lot of fun.

    The special effects are heavily digitized and there are a number of very noticeable 'digital moments'. I know I am supposed to say that the special effects were brilliant for the cost of the film, but I do not trust the reported budget - I suspect that a lot of very expensive people were employed on a voluntary basis for this film, and it is obvious that their time was not accounted for in the reported budget.

    Highly recommended for horror comedy fans and fans of the cast members. Not recommended for those who have difficulties with extremely disgusting gore, and not recommended for those who do not recognize at least one or two of the major cast members.
  • In a remote bar, costumers are advised by a newcomer to seal the place since hunger monsters will attack them in a couple of minutes. The man is immediately devoured and the clients organize a strategy to defend the place under siege of deadly creatures.

    "Feast" does not have story, but it is gruesome, gore, trash and funny. There are no explanations about the origin of the monsters, but disgusting and nasty special effects in the fast-paced and ridiculous attacks of the creatures that does not give time for thinking how silly the story is. The conclusion is a great joke, with a hook for a possible sequel. My vote is six.

    Title (Brazil): "Banquete no Inferno" ("Feast in Hell")
  • PizzaQueen071225 September 2021
    Couch critics. Movies are meant for entertainment, in whatever form. If you know this is not your type of entertainment then don't rate it. This is an unrealistic, predictable, over the top, chicks in tank tops, "why TF did you do that" kind of movie. The acting is nominal but effective for the purpose. The outrageousness is what makes it amusing. It's a really good bad movie. Enjoy with a dose of THC and a drink.
  • I made it to a screening of "Feast" at the International Horror Sci-Fi Film Festival in Arizona on October 23rd. I was really into the Project Greenlight show and from watching the show, I still didn't know what to expect from the film. It wasn't too long into the movie that I realized, even if you watched every episode of Project Greenlight as I did, you still don't see this coming. The movie was great! I sat back in my seat and went for a ride. It wasn't even 100% completed yet. A couple of scenes were too dark and it didn't have any credits. But it was so entertaining. They made this project for the horror genre, and they aren't going to let anyone down. There is so much blood, gore, and action in this film. The action sequences were a sight to see on the big screen. I was truly blown away with how good everything came out. John was there with his girlfriend Diane and one of the writers. They did a Q&A after the screening and were very outgoing with the audience. After the screening they joined me and a bunch of Arizona talent at a nearby bar to hang out. He answered questions and was very cool to chat with. I hope they don't have any problems with getting this movie into theaters nation wide. It's a fun story with everything you want in a horror movie. You have to check it out when you get the chance.
  • Monsters attacking a bar with Henry Rollins in it. That's a feast to watch indeed!

    Produced by Wes Craven, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.

    The good: terrific over the top gorefest, with lots of mutilated bodies, exploding monsters, eye sucking parasites and heavily vomiting big breasted blondes. The works. If you like stupid, bloody, violent, hilarious slasher movies, than this is your pick.

    Any bad? Not all of the jokes are timed well. But enough jokes are spot on. Henry Rollins in pink yogapants is definitely worth a watch.

    Definitely above the average slasher/monster movie. Have a beer, have a pizza and have a laugh...
  • Gigantoscula17 December 2019
    This is one of the movies that terrified me as a kid watching TV late night. The third movie in the trilogy was often aired so I got to see a few times. The first one is good. You'll get a laugh or two out of this. It has stereotypes, one liners, monsters, a bit of everything. It's the perfect movie for a rainy night. 7/10
  • Feast knows that it's a dirty, trashy, low-budget monster movie and it excels at being just that.

    I personally rank it up there with some of the great meta horror movies like Cabin in the Woods and Evil Dead 2.

    The beginning does a great job playing with your expectations before subverting them in the most over-the top way possible and sets the perfect tone for the rest of the movie.

    Fans of practical creature effects, splatter house gore, and raunchy humor will be delighted by this simple, bare-bones, straight to the point plot and dark humor.

    Don't go in expecting a deep story, just enjoy the campy madness of a bunch of one-note characters struggling to avoid becoming monster chow.
  • Wokel23 September 2006
    Like you, I became interested in this film after watching Project Greenlight 3 and following the misadventures of 49 year old underdog John Gulager. Dimension Films had selected Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton's script for Feast to produce because it was the most marketable and they wanted a Project Greenlight film to turn a profit for once. Project Greenlight absolutely loathed the script and partially out of malice they selected Gulager as the director, a filmmaker whose shorts were technically impressive and had a strange quality that seemed borne entirely from whole-cloth, but who was also incredibly shy and unassertive. The greenest of the green. After the film was completed everybody involved believed that the gamble paid off. I don't know, perhaps they were willfully deceiving themselves. Feast is a mess, the kind of mess that only a system as flawed as fundamentally flawed as Project Greenlight could have produced.

    Dunstan and Melton's script should have never seen the light of day. It evinces a real hatred for the cinema, I mean they hate hate hate movies. They don't only hate movies of substance they hate movies that work. This isn't about not taking yourself seriously; Dunstan and Melton seem to think a toaster is pretentious because it toasts bread like it's supposed to. Their notion of being clever is to tell us (via freeze-frames) how long the characters are going to live and then alter the predictions through the course of the movie. Think about that. They don't expect you to automatically be familiar with these conventions; they actively underline them for you and then violate them saying that you were stupid for buying into the conventions that they just underlined for you. The characters are flat and undefined and Dunstan and Melton underline this flatness by giving them names like "Hero" or "Harley Mama" while never infusing them with any archetypal significance as doing so would be "predictable" and thus unhip. If you ask me, they're struggling to distract from the fact that they can't write believable three-dimensional human characters and even worse, that they really don't have anything that they want to say. Except I guess, that movies are stupid and so we're not going to even bother to try to write a real one.

    And what about the monsters? They have sex and then the female instantly gives birth to an infant monster. Huh? I'm prepared to buy into a lot of things, but I draw the line well before split-second gestations. Who are these monsters? Where are they coming from? Why are they attacking these people, either on a literal level or a symbolic level? They are doing it for no other reason than to cover them in blood and slime and give the screenwriters a horror movie to feel superior to.

    But as bad as the script is, I'm sad to say that there is still a whole lot of blood on Gulager's hands. Most shots in the film are held for no longer than four seconds and because Dunstan and Melton think themselves too cool to develop interesting characters that we care about and have filled the film with nothing but action sequences, this quickly becomes exhausting. Gulager fills the film with jump scares, one of the most effective but also one of the most cheap and primitive of audience manipulations. He uses so many that you walk away a little battered. The film is like a box of Lucky Charms with nothing but marshmallows. The ending is really good. Really really good. Purely on a film-making standard. The movie hasn't earned it. I hope that Gulager has some substance in him for his next film, because he is totally unable to rely on style alone.
  • A send up of the old school Gory monster movie, that is absolutely amazing and an utter surprise. If you like the genre, you'll truly enjoy this flick
  • My friend Jason, the most informed horror fan I know, recommended this to me after I made the bold statement that "Slither" was the horror film of 2006. He suggested "Feast" would be much better. (Technically, "Feast" is 2005 but the DVD was released October 2006.) I still like "Slither" better (and probably "The Hills Have Eyes" and "Saw 3"), but "Feast" was a great film.

    We are given a group of people we barely know (real names are not used) in bar fighting off monsters outside the bar trying to break in. Maybe you're thinking I'm talking about "Shaun of the Dead", and there are some similarities, but no. These monsters are far more intelligent, vicious and cause much more gore to be spilled and tossed.

    The gore was the best part of this movie, by far. Guts, eyes, blood... things getting blown off, ripped off, torn out. I think several gallons of corn syrup went to good use on this production. You can't complain about a lack of blood.

    The humor was also good too, with the best part coming from the "hero", who delivers a very memorable line. If you're not hooked after his line (you'll know it when you hear it) you're watching the wrong film.

    Credit to Jason Mewes for playing Jason Mewes... wish he had a bigger part. And credit to Henry Rollins for not playing Henry Rollins. No fists swinging, no throat bulging... just a big man in pink pants.

    My only real concern is the timing of this film. Some parts seemed to drag. So much intense action followed by slow parts, and not even tense slow parts. Just plain slow. Even the opening, where we meet the characters, starting going on for too long and I began to lose interest.

    If I can say nothing else great about this movie, I can at least say its the best thing associated with Wes Craven in a very long time.
  • I sat through the whole project Greenlight of Feast and found it entertaining. The entire process of making a film is a tedious and mind cracking task. You could see the stress dripping across John Gulagers face during the entire process so I definitely feel for him. Well, it's been a year later and FEAST finally was released on DVD and I ran out and purchased it. As I sat in my living-room watching the film excitement quickly turned to confusion. The film has a good look, but once the action scenes begin thats when the confusion set in for me. The quality of the film took on a digital look. Especially when the blood started flying. I don't know what it is, but it had a bad strobe like effect. You couldn't tell what the heck was going on. Other then this, FEAST is nothing new. Fans of the genre have seen it all before. I know it was John's first attempt and he was under a huge amount of stress. But even with these facts I'm sorry to say, I enjoyed the making of FEAST more then the final product.
  • kosmasp27 May 2012
    You may recognize some of the people on screen here, from TV roles or from other movies. Henry Rollins a genre veteran and others that is. But what really counts, are the characters they're portraying. Of course you're not going to get 3-dimensional here, but that's something you couldn't expect from the movie. What you can expect though, is a really nice story, some cool one-liners and some pretty funny ideas. One of them being the introduction of the characters. I loved that bit and was bummed when they ditched it in part 2.

    If you can restrict yourself, do not watch the trailer, there is a massive (early) spoiler in there. And one that is really on the nose. Other than that, if you like a good b-movie that is out there (no pun intended), you will love this. The follow ups were not as good, but at least tried to follow the pace this set
  • Sergiodave29 October 2020
    If you are looking for originality in a horror movie look elsewhere, except for the opening 10 minutes which was different, when they introduced the characters. If however you're looking for comedy and gore you should try it out. I know I found it a blast.
  • I've never thought after From Dusk Till Dawn that someone would try to make a clone of that movie. Actually, Gulager and Project Greenlight did.

    This movie is about monsters invading a pub full of miserable losers. Well, the fountain of my problems is found in the last two words. Yes, the characters! Totally indifferent people, whose fate is totally indifferent, whom we don't care about if they survive or not. Awful dialogues and a truly miserable plot describes the whole movie - every element has been seen elsewhere, mostly in Romero's NotLD and Rodriguez's From Dusk..., but they've been put together to make a totally indifferent film, that makes you think: who cares who dies? Who cares what happens? Why didn't they just all die, it wouldn't have done anything different for you.

    The other problem beside the high level of indifference and the pathetic characters is the bad editing. During action scenes this makes the movie so quick we don't even know what happens, can't see a thing. The only good point is gore, which is not limited, that's why I give more than 1 star. But avoid this movie at all costs!
  • Unlike most such films, in FEAST, the action starts almost immediately and continues almost unbroken, except for brief moments to catch our breath. It's a fantastic monster movie filled with sudden, ferocious attacks and grisly slaughter.

    The monsters themselves are perfectly hideous, bringing the pain in massive amounts. Their human prey are no pushovers. The ensuing battle for survival is grueling and apocalyptic.

    FEAST is fast, bloody, and intense. It's also got a wicked sense of humor. Grueling fun from start to finish...
  • I just saw this film at the Chicago Film Festival and I was quite impressed; not being a fan of horror movies, this one actually made me jump a few times. It exceeded my expectations of being a horror film and independent. I expected a film whereas the director simply wanted to kill some characters off, there is a pleasant blend of characters and a decently written script. I do recommend this film for a fun action/comedy/horror, but don't expect much in lieu of character development. I was unaware that it was a project greenlight film, and i've never seen the show or other PG films and was treated to an audience Q&A which, being a film major in Chicago was a fantastic experience. I was told the film is scheduled to be released early next year but the date is tentative and depends of audience feedback. If you've seen the movie leave some feedback positive or negative. nick
  • Warning: Spoilers
    Last Project Greenlight film is a really bloody, really gory, very funny (in a sick way) horror film that messes with your expectations over and over again.

    The plot of the film is simple, late one night at an isolated road house populated by various people, a man runs in and says that a Hellstorm of trouble is coming and that they need to lock the windows and doors. What then transpires is that monsters attack and everyone tries to stay alive.

    Simple.

    What happens is that the film plays with conventions over and over again as it sets up your expectations and knocks them down. The first half hour is incredible since the film just moves and you aren't allowed to breath as you are battered by jokes, gore and things that movies don't readily do. Its brilliant. After about a half an hour the film settles into the siege and things slacken off. Its not bad, but there is too much talk and not enough action.

    And its bloody. I mean really really bloody and gory and violent. If you don't like that sort of thing do not watch this movie.

    I really like this film because it does what it wants it set out to be it goes for it like gangbusters.

    Its amazing that the film works since apparently, like all of the Project Greenlight films this was suppose to fail. the idea was to make great TV and not great movies. If you've seen the first two films that were made for the series the films were just okay but you really can't imagine them having much of a life. Feast was suppose to be like that. Get a "loser" for a director and take a nothing script and watch it all blow up. the problem was that the film actually turned out pretty good. The film had been described to me as a really good film that was better than most of the Hollywood horror films of late, which having seen the film is the perfect way to describe the movie.

    If you're a horror fan you really should see this. Other people may or may not like it based on their tolerance for the red stuff.

    7 out of 10
  • rivertam2622 September 2006
    What the hell is wrong with Dimension. They release that crapfest Pulse with a fair amount of marketing push. And than their only good film in sometime gets a two night limited release. what were they thinking. I mean Feast isn't great but it's damn good. And deserved more exposure and more showtimes from a studio that does nothing but release one meddlesome product after another. OK I've vented now on to this cult classic in waiting. Feast has a standard set up like From Dusk til dawn with some Evil Dead 2 thrown in. It's about a group of strangers trapped at bar. as the film begins it's a bit questionable flipping from one comical intro to the next, and they get less comical as they move along. Than the monsters attack chaos ensues and gorehounds will be ecstatic. this film is all blood, vomit and guts, oh my... Some of the gore in my opinion was a bit much and felt forced. the film took a while to start but after the demise of certain people some predictably others not. Some performances worked Balthazar Getty, Krista Allen, henry Rollins and others didn't Clu Gallagher, Navi Rawatt and Judah Friedlander. The direction is jumbled at first and at most points it's hard to see whats going on. But as the film moves along and has some character growth and plot development. suspense builds, the laughs are kept to minmum thankfully and it becomes an all out action horror fest with a surprisingly great last half. The creatures are believable but low budget. With a little more money and time this film could've been great. But there is still a really good film here. it's absolute fun. a splatter fest with the balls to pull it off. In the categories of films like Dusk til Dawn and Sin City Feast ultimately pulls it off full fold but thanx to dimension most people will never know that. And as far as the directing is concerned it was definalty promising but as he makes more films, and I hope he will. he needs to work on some pacing issues, holding back some of the creativity and just taking more control of the entire film and not just half of it.
  • Warning: Spoilers
    Getting right to the point, this movie was a huge letdown in my eyes. I have been making my way through some horror movies I had not seen yet (May, A Tale of Two Sisters, etc...) when I ran across this title. It was ranked on a lot of top horror movie lists, but after watching I can honestly say I don't understand why. The filmmakers seem like they can't figure out what sub-genre they want to end up with. This movie struggles between being a gore horror (succeeding in some parts but overall trying too hard), a dark comedy (a bad one at that), and a deeper movie than what it is by trying to develop character depth (epic fail).

    I gave this movie some stars because it does manage to introduce some elements that could have been good, if the movie wouldn't have had so many negative qualities. The gore succeeds at times, but as I said before overall it feels forced and given the attempts at comedy and character development, doesn't feel like a gore horror. The movie also gives brief biographies of each character, but this becomes redundant after the first 3-4 and by the time they are all done, you're wondering why they did so many. The cinematography is good in some areas when it is not shaking from cut scene to cut scene so fast that it makes you wonder if you are having a seizure or watching a movie.

    Sadly, the monsters in this movie look too much like the creatures from the "Alien" series to give credit to the filmmakers. For the life of me, I still see no reason why the monsters decide to wear clothing and bulls heads when the bull skulls don't even cover where their heads are located. Though a small gripe and not a defining factor for my rating, it still bothers me that creatures which hump items at random, eat humans whole, and throw up on people have some sort of issue with not wearing clothing.

    If you're looking for a good horror movie and have not seen many, I would recommend looking elsewhere. If you're simply a horror movie fan like myself who has seen many and is looking for something that has slipped through the cracks.....I'd still suggest looking elsewhere. If you're trying to prolong going to get that root canal done but have ran out of other things to procrastinate with though, this is less painful. I give this movie a 4/10 because it simply takes itself too seriously to write it off as a dark comedy, but not seriously enough to be a good horror movie.
  • Saw this film at the International Horror & Sci-Fi Festival in Tempe, Arizona last night. This is the first film that I have seen from the "Project Greenlight" series. Since the film was made for only a million bucks, I expected "Feast" to be loaded with lots of things that would show that it was shot on a low budget. Well, there wasn't any CGI special effects and 99% of this film was shot inside the bar, but other than that, I didn't feel anything else was compromised that would affect the quality of the film. In fact, this film kicks more butt than most multi-million dollar horror and sci-fi flicks! "Feast" takes place inside a bar in the middle of the California desert. At one moment, a bloodied man shows up with a dead creature in his hand. He says there are four of them, he doesn't know what they are or where they came from, except that they devour and kill anybody they see. Within minutes, the creatures suddenly show up, the carnage begins and all hell breaks loose.

    What I liked most about this film was the comical intros for all the lead characters: "hero", "loser", "expects nothing in life" etc.

    Director John Gulager and one of the writers, Marcus Dunstan, chatted with the audience after the screening. According to John, the film was scheduled for a January 2006 release. Unfortunately, the turmoil at the film's distributors has put "Feast" on the shelf at least for now. Hopefully, something could be done to get this film out to the public, word of mouth is already out and "Feast" stands to make millions at the box office.
  • Scarecrow-8823 November 2006
    6/10
    Feast
    Warning: Spoilers
    Basic monster massacre creature feature has a group of unfortunates trapped in a beer joint as feasters await outside ready to strike ferociously. Character development isn't an issue here to be bothered with for these victims are merely clichés(every character has their own title card for pete-sake)to be slaughtered at random in various gruesome ways. Absurd humorous flourishes abound(monster sex, Clu Galagher sporting a long earring;the hero dying immediately after introducing himself;Henry Rollins as a motivational speaker{!})assist a tad bit, but it's still your typical bloody mess of people being dispatched. Do we who venture into a viewing of a monster film like this expect anything otherwise, though? Balthazar Getty plays a prick who gets to be hero of the day while hottie Krista Allen is the unlikely heroine whose son becomes swallowed lunch in one long gulp.

    Notable for being the third Project Greenlight production with Wes Craven assisting the team as a guiding teacher. Outrageous to the extreme with the use of the new breed of Hollywood film-making consisting of hyperkinetic camera-work/editing and exhausting breakneck pace. You have a hard time catching your breath as those beasties can move some kind of fast(with those razor-sharp teeth and claws that take off limbs and penetrate torsos in quite a hurry).
  • szita3826 November 2006
    this movie was just violence for the sake of violence! it was boring,with an un original story line! Also.. don't bother trying to eat anything while watching this movie! u would think Hollywood would be getting tired of making movies like this! being a big movie buff myself!!...i can tell you i have seen them all. this one didn't do a thing for me and i have to wonder how it would for anyone. they could have done better if they had just thrown fake blood all over an old house and filmed it! One has to wonder if Hollywood is running out of imagination or just getting lazy! the money for this film would has served better going to a charity! there was nothing impressive with the acting,storyline,or even visual effects for me. So in all this movie gets a poor rating in my book.
  • Warning: Spoilers
    I saw this movie last night at the Chicago Film Festival. This movie is not one that will change lives or addresses pressing social issues. Though it would be easy for somebody to say that it is a metaphor for our day and time with terrorist threats and all, but somebody even could do that with Cheaper by the Dozen. So anyway about Feast, it's a great film to watch.

    The premise is very simple a bunch of strangers are locked in a bar for the night as monsters try and get in. There really isn't much more to it and that is where the beauty of this film lies. I have heard that Marcus, one of the writers described this as a movie that you start watching on TBS at 2 am and you don't finish, which is a great description for it.

    The performances are pretty strong because the actors seem so relaxed in them. The best performances come from Balthazar Getty, Duane Whitaker, Clu Gulgar, Krista Allen, and Josh Zuckerman. The work of the Thomas L Callaway the cinematographer is great, especially in the final showdown scene, some may complain about not being able to see but the red color that covers the scene is great. The final shot of Krista Allen behind the rising sun is just beautiful, even if it is only a simple horror movie.

    The main credit goes to John Gulager, whom despite all the "drama" shown on Project Greenlight, has crafted a really enjoyable film. He took all the raw elements of the production and crafted just an amazing final product. This is a movie that I will suggest to people who just want to enjoy themselves in a theater.
  • So Hollywood continues to pour hundreds of millions of dollars into JUNK like Poseidon and Mission Impossible...meanwhile, there are interesting cats like Chris Moore, Matt Damon and, yes...admit it...Ben Affleck who put there clout behind little flicks like Feast.

    Yes, I did watch Project Greenlight. At first, this flick looked like a train-wreck. Gulagher looked completely clueless. Little did we know that, deep beneath that fat, mousy exterior, beat the heart of Andrew Vachss's Burke.

    What should have been a trifle turned out to be a fun, gross, laugh out loud comedic screamer that had some legitimate jolts. Give Gulagher $10 million and keep a strong producer like Chris Moore involved and you could have another Usual Suspects or Lock, Stock... The guy knows how to create mood. If a regular genre director had healmed Feast, it would have been another Sci Fi Original piece of crap. But Gulagher really showed a knack for noir. The lighting, the camera angles, what he chose to focus on at certain key points...it all rolled together for an excellent cinematic experience.

    Even though I had free passes, this flick is still definitely worth the cost of A Night At The Movies. If it doesn't come to your town, PUT IT ON YOUR NETFLIX QUEUE NOW!!! A satisfying gore-fest that won't leave you disappointed.
  • This movie was awful, and passably the worst i have EVER seen.

    Acting ------- Was some of the worst i have ever seen in a movie not only can Navi Rawat not act she is also painful to watch. But that isn't the worst of it Duane Whitaker was 100 times worse. There best actor was probably Eileen Ryan who was pretty good to be honest.

    Story ------ Omg. where do i start? There was no story! thats really all i can say, nothing was explained in this film. Just a bunch of horny aliens killing everybody because Navi Rawat and her husband ran a alien over.

    Scary ------ Hell no! there was noting scary about this movie just mindless gore which is expected in a horror but this was just bad unconvincing and basically alien porn! watch it you will see.

    Funny ------ At times this movie can be funny, very funny but since when was it a comedy.

    Creature --------- Looked terrible,

    Just no! waist your money if you want but i wouldn't buy it
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