FEAST :: SNEAK PREVIEW SCREENING

D. John Gulager, 2005 USA
Executive Producers. Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Wes Craven

Director John Gulager and producer Chris Moore will be live in person at both screenings.

Somewhere near a small desert town; it's business as usual at the local tavern, until a stranger storms inside. It's no longer a night for a leisurely drink -- it's a night to fight for survival. Nearby, creatures have escaped a Military research facility, they are fearsome beasts created with the spliced DNA of the world's most vicious predators...and they're hungry. Now, the men and women inside the "Beer Trap" will have to barricade the doors, craft their weapons, band together and pray to survive the night.

“AMAZING! ...This film has some of the greatest gore I've seen in an American horror film in quite sometime, and it feels good to see it.” -BLOODY-DISGUSTING.COM

REVIEW
“I have been waiting to hear how Gulager did with this film for months now. For the first time I was actually interested in seeing a Project Greenlight movie. I must say, I thought FEAST was going to be bad, but a good kind of bad. Like maybe it would be bloody junk to see but not necessarily brag about. I've never been so happy to be wrong.

FEAST delivers the goods and I am proud to tell y'all. If the audience was any indication then I am not the only one that jumped, laughed and cringed at the lovely and twisted tapestry that Mr. Gulager wove.

FEAST has "cult" written all over it. Its mix of humor and shocks harkens back to the glory of TREMORS and RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD (nice to see Clu Gulager kick like-wise ass in this film as well). The biggest relief of all was there was not a ghost, icky water, or creepy child in this film. It isn't a remake. It isn't a sequel. This is a creature feature pure and simple and it is a bloody one at that. I don't know if all the red stuff will make it to the screen intact but it was damn plentiful.

I don't think the plot will come as any surprise. It is a bunch of strangers trapped in a bar and fighting for their lives. Okay. ‘Nuff said. Fortunately, more often than not, this sucker turns left when we expect a right. The laughs and jumps come pretty fast and furious once the family of roadkill-wearing creatures lay siege to the roadhouse. What begins to set this familiar scenario apart is the bizarre nature of the monstrous family and the quips and blunders of the down-and-out patrons of the tavern. These are not your everyday creatures. For example, if you kill one, they just hump and make two more. If you run for it, they run faster. If you fight, they bite. I don't want to give too much away, but this thing is not afraid to get nasty or clever.

The cast is more than game. Henry Rollins is hysterical. He plays an inspirational speaker that has the absolute worst advice for our characters’ troubled times. Clu Gulager is in fine form and one wonders why the guy isn't in more films these days. In fact the casting of Gulager, Eileen Ryan and the ever-smarmy Duane Whittaker proves that actors over the age of nineteen can be in movies these days. Judah Friedlander pretty much steals every scene he is in as an especially unlucky dope who spends the entirety of the movie in constant suffering.

One last note, the cinematography is pretty damn wicked. The colors just spill. It reminded me of an Italian horror flick. Gulager's method finds beauty in some of the vilest moments I have seen in a long time. We're not just seeing bloodshed; we're witnessing extreme violence through the eye of an artist. The acerbic humor comes into play just when the carnage stops and helps buoy a number of moments that would have fallen into a flat routine in lesser fare.

If you like it fast, scary and funny here it is. Ladies and Gents, Mr. Gulager has the goods. The FEAST is coming.
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