A few years back, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon ran a screenwriting competition to give opportunities to youngsters, just as others had given them a helping hand previously. The winners then got to produce their masterpiece, which in this case was 2005's Feast, a fun little monster movie.
It's low budget, so we are presented with a group of disparate folk holed up in a remore desert bar while hungry creatures lay siege. The creatures aren't explained (except they hump a lot!) but that's ok, as no explaination is required when there's people being eaten going on. It's directed with panache and cast with faces you'll recognise but won't be able to name without looking them up later.
And the competition winning script? A winner! It's fast, fun and chocked with oddball characters, quirky dialogue and Tarantinoesque captions (betting on the survivability of each character) that raises this above your standard, direct-to-DVD affair. Not a great horror flick, but you could do much, much worse than to play this sucker with some accompanying beer and popcorn.
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