This is the first feature for director Lee Haven Jones and it's something to behold. It's a horror film that Cronenberg would have been proud to have made - it's slow, aesthetically extremely cold, and creepy as fuck. If this doesn't sound like your bag, the The Feast is not for you. Also it's in the Welsh language, so subtitles to boot. For me, this is all good stuff. What's it all about? A wealthy family is throwing a dinner party and they hire Cadi (Annes Elwy) to help prepare the meal. Cadi, well she is one creepy freak for sure but the whole family is odd and everyone seem to have a strange fetish. Lots of kinking voyeuristic action takes place in The Feast, including the audience - the act of watching others in their private moments is both unsettling as an invasion of privacy but also perversely alluring to see what is really going on. Isn't that what film and books are though, keyholes into the lives of others? This little film looks great and it offers up a three course horror show. If you like your horror movies strange, mythical, and gross, then dig into The Feast on streaming services.
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