Feast: A horror comedy very much in line with the “Tales from the Crypt” movies (with an even smaller budget), this film is apparently the product of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s “Project Greenlight” show. I watched some of the episodes but it bored the heck out of me (mainly because the “creative process” for some people is either mind-numbingly dumb or mind-numbingly awful). But a co-worker at Borders who watches more movies than I do (probably because he’s not working 2 jobs) watched this and said it was worth a look, so away we go. The plot: various patrons of an isolated desert bar get attacked by a family of creatures that eat people, eviscerate people, sever limbs, swallow children whole. The bar is populated by all manner of character archetypes, from the town layabout, to the hero and heroine. Each character is introduced with a little card. For example:
Name: Hero
Occupation: Kicking Ass
Life Expectancy: Pretty f*cking good.
Even dear Jason Mewes (of “Clerks” fame) has a part, playing himself…until his face gets ripped off and he gets shot. We’ve got a few other name people in the movie: Balthazar Getty, Henry Rollins, Treach from Naughty by Nature. Hell, half the cast is dead within the first 7 minutes of the film (particularly some of the “names”). Once the action gets started, most of our cast doesn't make it out alive. However, the tongue is obviously firmly planted in cheek and with any good gory horror movie, What other conclusion can you draw from little monsters that like to hump everything. The previews for this movie don’t make it look like the big, dark joke that it is. Woodchuck sez, “Worth a look.”
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