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Simple Premise, Perfectly Executed...
I don't know how many DVD boxes I've read that said the movie inside was "A non-stop thrill-ride!" or "Action-packed from start to finish!", etc., yadda-yadda-yadda. Most of the time, this is only partially true at best. FEAST is a different story! The action starts almost immediately, and continues w/ only short breaks to catch a quick breath, before plunging on into another attack / slaughter! This is one tremendous monster movie! The creatures are hideous, mysterious, and absolutely lethal. A small band of humans, trapped in a desert saloon, must fend off these critters all night long. People die right and left, especially the ones I expected to survive! FEAST is bloody, fast, and intense. It's also got a nice, gruesome sense of humor! Watch it as part of a triple feature w/ SLITHER and THE DESCENT for added monsters, blood, and slime...

Best B movie in years
And don't get me wrong - I consider "Alien" a B movie and one of the best movies ever. To me "B Movie" describes a genre rather than a level of quality. "Feast" was just fun fun fun in ways that Hollywood hasn't managed in quite a while. It has a cleverness on par with that shown by "Scream," in that it plays to, and with, the conventions we know and expectations we bring. I mean, everyone knows how a horror movie or creature feature is supposed to play out, and this movie plays with both keeping to that tradition and dropping it like the cold wet rag it can be to surprise us and entertain us. I was expecting something like a straight-to-DVD video that would tell basically the same story in basically the same way as any other monster movie, probably with cheesy effects and maybe bad acting. I was very happily surprised at how much better than that Feast turned out to be. The characters are well-done and the actors turn in good performances (a special nod to Henry Rollins on that count), and the production style is really very entertaining, a good sense of humor underlying everything. It is graphically (and sometimes sexually) violent, but if you object to that you're probably not considering this movie anyway. And despite being on a limited budget, the monsters are done well, nicely grotesque, frightening and convincing. This is as much due to the director's cinematography as the effects folks' creations, both of which work to advantage in bringing these creatures to life. I recommend this movie the way I recommend American Werewolf in London and Carpenter's The Thing. I believe this movie was the result of the "Project Greenlight" program, so horror fans looking for a little deviation from the standard predictable Hollywood approach to these kinds of movies should definitely support this film, send the message that we'll be an audience for more than they think.