Feast 2: Sloppy Seconds

by | Jan 17, 2015 | The Horror Review News | 0 comments

When I first heard that Project Greenlight was going to make a horror film a few years back, I never expected it to be a good movie that appealed to the true hardcore horror fans. Well, I ate my words, as FEAST, because an cult hit with all horror fans, including myself. I loved FEAST it was the ideal monster movie. Not so much a film that we haven’t seen before as it’s plot was very similar to other horror films, but it was a fun filled gore fest of a monster film, and I had one hell of a time watching it. Now a few years later, after FEAST was a moderate success, more so on DVD than in it’s limited theatrical release, the producers of the first film have decided to go ahead and make another one. They bought back the same writers, the same director, and some of the actors from the first film. What they made, does the original film no justice whatsoever.

FEAST 2: SLOPPY SECONDS begins right where the first one left off. With a car pulling away as a chick on a bike known as the Biker Queen (Diane Goldner)pulls up only to find the hand of her sister in a German Sheppard’s mouth. She then finds the bartender (Clu Gulager) still alive hiding under a trailer and quickly wants to know what happened. He explains, but not believing him, she takes him on her bike to find the car that took off. Meanwhile in the desert Honey Pie (Jenny Wade) is walking towards the nearest town, unbeknown to her that the creatures by the dozens are attacking the town. In the town is a wrestling family of little people known as Thunder ( Martin Klebba) and Lighting (Juan Longoria García) along with their grandmother who own a locksmith company, and a car salesman known as Slasher ( Carl Anthony Payne II) his cheating wife know as Secrets( Hanna Putnam) and her boyfriend Greg (Tom Gulager). The majority of the crew ends up on the roof of a metal repair/automotive shop, while Honey Pie is trapped in a grocery store. All of them are trying to get to the safest place in the town; The Jail, where a crazy crack head is locked in their all alone and won’t let anyone in. Meanwhile the hoard of grotesque, sex crazed, blood thirsty monsters are trying to kill everyone and everything they can get their hands on.

Yes, the way I explained the plot above pretty much sums it up, no real plot twist story going on or anything. You want my true honest opinion of the script. It was terrible. I understand the fact that the screen writers wanted to make the most gross, disgusting politically incorrect horror film ever, and I respect all that. The problem is that’s all they focused on and forgot about the fact they needed to tell a story. The film literally plays all the gore up front and never once really gives two shits about the developing of the story. Sure some of the characters a decently written, but all the characters we really give two shits about where already developed in the first film, and every time I tried to get into some of the new characters I felt they were all disposable. Now, I was enjoying the film up into one moment in the films which I’m going to explain below; SPOILER WARNING COMING UP……

Here’s the deal folks, here’s what really put a bad taste in my mouth. Now before I go on, what I’m about to to say has nothing to do with the fact that I’m a parent. Sometimes I understand the point of having young children and babies die in films, because fucked up things happen everyday where children are killed. When it’s done in movies to give you that feeling of true horror such as a film like SEED or THE GIRL NEXT STORE, it feels real. In this film the death of a child is more of a joke and an act of a coward on the part of the character of Greg. But here’s the thing, this point in the film could of been a defining plot twist in the film that could of bought the movie the hero character it needed. Greg decides to risk his life after the crew on the rooftop hears a baby screaming in a station wagon on the street. He give a speech to everyone about risking his life to to the right thing for a change. Your left feeling that this sneaky weak character is going to become the hero (the Ash) of the film; he bravely swings down on a telephone line to the street, gets the baby out of the car, and runs with the baby in hand back to the roof while the monsters chase him. But instead of giving us a hero that the movie so desperately needed, Greg decides that his life is more important than the child he just saved and decides to throw the baby in the air, where in lands in a bloody mess in front of the monsters, which run by the baby as one of them snatches the poor baby up in its mouth and swallows it like a cake crumb. I looked at this scene like it was just thrown in there to shock the audience, when it fact it killed the whole movie, this movie has no hero. All the characters are weak and left at the mercy of the monsters. It’s predicable, and the movie was simply written just to gross everyone out rather than give us a film with a plot and a storyline. Simply put folks, its just a movie that wants to gross you out, and maybe shock you.

On another note, I will give the film credit in two areas, The acting and the directing. While I can’t give John Gulagar credit for his attempt to make a good film with a bad script, I will however give him credit for working with it, and for giving good direction to his actors. While I really didn’t care much for many of the new characters introduced in the film, I do think that the cast did a great job in their roles. Most of the performances stood out more than others such as Jenny Wade reprising her role as Honey Pie, Martin Klebba was Thunder and Clu Gulager as The Bartender. They notably stood out more to me. But everyone in the cast was good in the film despite what they had to work with. That whole one star I gave this film is for Gulagar and his cast, as I think they are the only ones involved that deserve any credit.

Don’t even get me started on the Production Value; you want my honest opinion. This whole film could of been shot on location. I have no clue how it costs the studio cheaper to shoot the majority of the film in a studio behind a green screen. The visual effects are really bad, and pretty much noticeable throughout the majority of the film, it’s very obvious folks in more ways than one, and at times the film looks fake. The editing was also nothing great, and I don’t know if it’s because of the way Gulagar decided it should be shot, and the editor was just working with what he was given or the other way around. The make-up effects are pretty decent in this flick and there is plenty of blood and gore to go around. As for the monsters however, their are times you can tell that it’s just a bunch of people in rubber suits running around. But for the most part, the effects are good. Also I must admit that some of the visual effects used on some of the kill scenes are decent, but the matted backgrounds and cityscape is what really makes the film looks fake.

Overall, I think what FEAST 2 is trying to be is a film that’s meant to just gross out and shock it’s audience. It’s more of a B-movie that is along the lines of something Troma would put out. Honestly if John Gulagar’s name was not on this film as director I would of bet my money that Lloyd Kaufman directed this one. If your a fan of gross out horror and don’t need a good story to get your rocks off, and if Troma like films are your thing then your going to love this one. If your like me, and think that more intelligent horror films and horror films with good stories need to be made more often than your going to dismiss this picture just like I did. The first film was fun, and it had a lot of spirit and story behind it’s gore. This sequel strays from that and just wants to gross you out in more ways than one.

– Horror Bob

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