The Feast

Name: The Feast
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Horror
Released: November 19, 2021
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 63
Cast: Annes Elwy, Caroline Berry, Chris Gordon, Julian Lewis Jones, Lisa Palfrey

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IFC Midnight | Release Date: November 19, 2021 | NR

Starring: Annes Elwy, Caroline Berry, Chris Gordon, Julian Lewis Jones, Lisa Palfrey, Nia Roberts, Rhodri Meilir, Sion Alun Davies, Steffan Cennydd

Summary: An affluent family gathers at their lavish home in the Welsh mountains for a dinner party, hosting a local businessman and neighboring farmer to broker a business deal to mine the surrounding countryside. When a mysterious young woman arrives to be the family’s waitress for the evening, they find their beliefs and values challenged, as herAn affluent family gathers at their lavish home in the Welsh mountains for a dinner party, hosting a local businessman and neighboring farmer to broker a business deal to mine the surrounding countryside. When a mysterious young woman arrives to be the family’s waitress for the evening, they find their beliefs and values challenged, as her quiet yet disturbing presence begins to unravel their lives – slowly, deliberately, and with the most terrifying of consequences.… Expand

Director: Lee Haven Jones

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Horror

Rating: NR

Runtime: 93 min

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The Playlist Andrew Crump

Nov 22, 2021

There’s much to like about his work here. Just skip the canapes. Read full review

Tara Brady

Aug 19, 2022

Pitched somewhere between folk horror, ecological revenge and scathing class critique, The Feast is at its best during the elegantly atmospheric, nervy first hour, as cinematographer Bjørn Ståle Bratberg picks out ominous details. Read full review

The Film Stage Christian Gallichio

Nov 18, 2021

Not all choices that Williams and Jones make pay off—including a late-act decision to explicitly spell out the reasons Cadi is seeking revenge—but The Feast is a compelling addition to the burgeoning genre of eco-horror, one of the more gruesome, nasty films in recent memory. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Nov 9, 2021

“Tone” is the triumph of the Welsh thriller The Feast. Tone — in its lonely, remote setting, its chilly, unsettling characters and the deeply unpleasant things that transpire — is everything. Read full review

Wendy Ide

Aug 25, 2022

The Feast requires a degree of commitment; it avoids jump scares in favour of a long, slow build of tension – so slow that at times the characters appear to be in the grip of a kind of paralysis – that pays off with an explosively grisly final act. Read full review

Empire John Nugent

Aug 19, 2022

A slow-burn, sluggishly surreal horror, The Feast takes its time getting to the point — but the bloody final act is something to really sink your teeth into. Read full review

Marina Ashioti

Aug 31, 2022

Arbitrary continuity errors, heavy-handed symbolism, an agonisingly laborious pace and shallow characterisation leave a sour taste in the mouth, especially as the payoff is not gruesome enough to justify the means that get us there. Read full review

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JLuis_001

Dec 14, 2021

The Feast aims to be a strange, cold and slow film.
It's a horror story, but after a few minutes you'll realize that its proposal is not mainstream horror, although you won't see a complicated story either.
What happens here, it's that it takes a long time to start making combustion, andThe Feast aims to be a strange, cold and slow film.
It's a horror story, but after a few minutes you'll realize that its proposal is not mainstream horror, although you won't see a complicated story either.

What happens here, it's that it takes a long time to start making combustion, and when you get to that point, it doesn't feel so necessary to reach the ending.

And this happens mostly because, as in almost any situation, when you tease too much and don't go all the way, you won't get anything out of your sleeve that's worthwhile and saves the situation.… Expand

1 of 1 users found this helpful10

Spongbawb

Feb 27, 2022

Overall slow and drawn out movie which you immediately realize is a heavy handed environmental critique piece.

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EReviews

Nov 20, 2021

Feast starts off as a visual picture hoping to reel it's audience in with a setting that isn't explored much and characters you will almost immediately forget. The build up across the duration of the film does not reward it's viewers with it's cheap grand finale. The editing andFeast starts off as a visual picture hoping to reel it's audience in with a setting that isn't explored much and characters you will almost immediately forget. The build up across the duration of the film does not reward it's viewers with it's cheap grand finale. The editing and Cinematography are a big blunder here as well. Keylighting in certain scenes do not tell the audience what they should be looking out for and a good example is the "cell" that this family uses to "relax".

Most of the script does nothing for the story or character progression until the middle/end of the movie. Even when we arrive to the climax everything is just rushed and thrown together and it's visuals do not meet the script.

While I compare this movie to the likes of "Lamb", this film is far less effective in it's message and really lacking on its ending.… Expand

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