Feed (2005)

A cybercrime investigator tracks a man (O'Loughlin) suspected of force-feeding women to death.

Director:

Brett Leonard

Writers:

Patrick Thompson (based on an idea by), Alex O'Loughlin (based on an idea by),

Stars:

Alex O'Loughlin, Patrick Thompson, Gabby Millgate

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Alex O'Loughlin	...	Michael Carter
Patrick Thompson	...	Phillip Jackson
Gabby Millgate	...	Deidre
Jack Thompson	...	Richard
Rose Ashton	...	Abbey
Matthew Le Nevez	...	Nigel
David Field	...	Father Turner
Sherly Sulaiman	...	Mary
Marika Aubrey	...	Jesse
Adam Hunt	...	German Cannibal
Nicholas Coghlan	...	Cannibal Victim
Yure Covich	...	Hans
Connor Thompson	...	Young Phillip
Helene Joy	...	Young Phillip's Mother (as Helen Thearle)
Peter Holloway	...	Young Phillip's Father

Storyline

An Interpol cop from Sydney, who has his own demons, pursues a man in the United States who liberates women from the cultural norms of thinness by feeding them to gross weights. He also shows their photographs to Internet subscribers. But what else is he up to? The Aussie suspects murder or worse. The cop, Phillip Jackson, and his mark, Michael Metszencalmpf, are in a game of cat and mouse - but which is the cat?

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Plot Keywords:

internet | fat | pervert | submission | female nudity | 

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Taglines:

Can you stomach it?

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Genres:

Crime | Horror | Thriller

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Official Sites:

Official site [au] Official site [uk]

Country:

Australia

Language:

English German

Release Date:

17 February 2006 (UK)

Also Known As:

Feed - Fome Assassina

Filming Locations:

CentrePoint Tower, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Company Credits

Production Co:

All At Once, Becker Films International, Cutting Edge

Technical Specs

Runtime:

101 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Goofs

If you look very carefully at the opening police scene, supposed to be in Hamburg, Germany, you can catch a glance of one of the police vans in front of the house. There one can see that this vehicle has right-hand-steering.

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Quotes

[first lines]
title card: Although the events depicted in this film are fictional, they are based on actual behaviours that are happening between consenting adults... right now.

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Connections

References Pac-Man (1980)

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Soundtracks

"I Love Life"
Performed by Cameron McLean, Mark Higgins & Andrew Higgins

User Reviews

interesting, but unfullfilling

The basic plot: cyber investigators from Austalia stumble on a fetist website about women who literally get feed to death of their own volition.

This movie will have a limited target audience. Fans of gross out movies will enjoy it, but there is no way an average person who pays to see movies like King Kong, The Transporter or Pirates of the Caribian will enjoy this. This target audience is a little more...less mainstream.

It's gross. At times it's hard to stomach 600 pound naked women being force fed then puking. It's a different kind of gross from movies like Cannibal Holocaust, Salo, Hostel, Se7en. It's more disturbing simply because of the subject matter, rather then the gore. But at the same time, I watched the whole thing, so I guess it wasn't bad.

Both the acting and direction were a pleasant surprise, I was expecting a mid range B movie, but got a real movie instead.

Two things I would have done differently...1. Dwell a little on the 'fans' of the fetish in question (they weren't even addressed), and 2. either more of the cannibal issue from the start of the movie or take that scene out completely or tie it into the force feeding later on.

I did stop eating though when I was watching it. A perfectly good tub of Orvil movie style popcorn, thrown away. So I suppose it accomplished what it set out to do.

I won't rate this movie though. I will only say, it was well done overall, and if you think you can stomach the subject matter, seek it out and watch it.