Format: DVD from Stockton Township Public Library through interlibrary loan on basement television
I don’t know where to start with Feast, although I should probably start with its genesis. Feast is arguably the most successful of the movies created on Project Greenlight, the old four-season show that documented someone getting a movie project, well, greenlit under the tutelage of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. The first two seasons gave us dramas, and season three when straight genre with Feast, a sloppy horror/comedy that goes for Peter Jackson horror movie levels of gore.
Feast is a movie that trades virtually entirely on attitude. When each character is introduced, for instance, we are given (in most cases) a snarky nickname (“Bozo,” “Hot Wheels” for the guy in a wheelchair, “Harley Mom,” “Beer Guy,” and more), an equally snarky bio, and a prediction of how long they might survive in the carnage to come. After a few minutes of set up in a bar in the middle of nowhere when a new character, identified as Hero (Eric Dane) bursts in with the head of some giant, terrifying creature. He tells the patrons that hell is coming and they need to prepare the bar for an invasion of huge, hungry monsters. And, because Feast wants to play with our expectations, just as he tells everyone he’s the guy who is going to save them, the monsters show up, break through a window, and bite his head off, literally.
