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3.0 out of 5 starsThe Gulager family give us monsters in a bar.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 January 2015
Rednecks, cowboys and fairly unlikable dregs are holed up in their local dive bar when they are warned that a series of monsters have invaded their town and are headed right for the bar. Cue insane madness, where our patrons now must fight and think tactially to survive the night as the monsters loom ever closer.
John Gulager directs, yes the son of Clu- and Clu is here as the badass cowboy bartender. There are a host of characters we are introduced to but not one comes across with any depth, but they do fester lots of anger. Gulager makes the mistake of shooting the violent scenes like a music video, probably hoping to avoid an adult certificate- it didn't work. And the final quarter of an hour is shot in mostly darkness, something you're kinda praying won't happen throughout the movie.
It's a fun fast paced movie that delivers everything it has in 83 short minutes. The comedic moments are left to a minimum, but there are still some unnessasary scenes- we really didn't have to see the monsters making love, please! The script is wobbly- but all in all Feast is fun. But a year later the movie would be relegated to a different league when Frank Darabont gave us The Mist and showed us exactly how a monster movie should be dealt with, with pretty much the foundations of the same plot.