The Feast (2021)
Directed by Lee Haven Jones
A wealthy family hosts a sumptuous dinner, only for a mysterious young server to chillingly unravel their lives with terrifying consequences they could never see coming.
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Assumed to be the fill in help, the young woman immediately gives off Scarlett Johansson vibes from Under the Skin; she seems uncomfortable in her body, adjusting and figuring out how to navigate something as simple as a basic gesture or communication.
There’s plentiful notes of Yorgos Lanthimos; The Feast fits snugly in the off-kilter universe of Dogtooth and The Killing of a Sacred Deer , the later of which shares a similarly unspoken curse that is creepier by virtue of going largely unexplained.
With quick flashes of violence and the kind of bodily expulsions that will make even the most steadfast of genre veterans wince, this allegorical fable– something along the lines of Hannibal meets Dogtooth – is a raucous descent into crimson savagery.
From Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre to Karyn Kusama’s The Invitation , the dinner table as a space for transgressive social and/or familial communion has long proven rich terrain for the horror genre to mine.
Subdued and formalistic for the first two-thirds of the film before, very literally, taking the camera off the tripod for a particularly gory finale, The Feast may test one’s patience but, for those willing to embrace these Welsh-film’s eccentricities, Jones has crafted one of the more horrifying dinner parties this side of The Invitation .
There’s plentiful notes of Yorgos Lanthimos; The Feast fits snugly in the off-kilter universe of Dogtooth and The Killing of a Sacred Deer , the later of which shares a similarly unspoken curse that is creepier by virtue of going largely unexplained.
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The movie is not dissimilar to Bong Joon-ho's Parasite in suggesting that an over-emphasis on money is a form of evil.
“The Feast” begins skewering Glenda’s brood from practically the minute it starts, tracing the family’s empty affluence with the kind of cheeky body horror tropes that films like “The Neon Demon” and “Death Becomes Her” have committed to with greater aplomb (so far as movies are concerned, face peels and raw diets remain among the ultimate expressions of modern evil).