DVD Review: Feast - Page 2

Compression proves problematic for the film's DVD transfer. Grain is also extensive throughout, though actually beneficial to the mood and tone. Colors are rightfully muted and nearly monotone, showing up on screen appropriately murky. Still, you can see all the detail when the unbelievable amount of blood spills on screen.

For a low budget effort, Feast sounds great. It effectively uses each channel to convey the movement of the creatures as they circle the small bar. Positional audio is used for subtlety too, like glasses clanking together or background noise. Mixes like this greatly enhance smaller films, and Feast is a perfect example, aside from a lack of deep bass.

While Project Greelight followed the making of the film, no content from the show is here. That series will see a full DVD release as Season 3 sometime in the future. There's no lack of extras though on this disc.

A six-person commentary is loaded, possibly to the point of calling it overcrowded. Writers, producers, special effects crew, and the director all have points to make, and they'll do it quickly as possible to fit within the constraining run time. Five deleted scenes were all wise cuts, though the alternate ending has some potential to work.

Horror Under the Spotlight is a standard making of, made slightly interesting thanks to the film's production under the spotlight of a TV show. Blood and Guts is self explanatory, focusing on the wonderful effects, and providing some minor tips on how to make things work if you ever plan on trying something like this. Three minutes of outtakes and an extensive amount of trailers finish off the feature set.

Project Greenlight, which aired on Bravo, has not been seen since the last episode of season 3. That aired May 12, 2005. There seem to be no plans to start the series up again, so Feast may be the way the show sends itself off.

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Matt Paprocki is a 12-year movie and game critic. He currently freelances for Blu-ray review site DoBlu.com and video game site MultiPlayerGames.com.

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  • 1 - The MovieBuff

    Oct 26, 2006 at 4:42 am

    I loved the movie. I thought it was funny, exciting and gory all at the same time ;-) Not many movies can give you that.

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