Feed (2005)

Director:

Brett Leonard

Writers:

Kieran Galvin (written by) and
Alex O'Loughlin (idea)

Release Date:

17 February 2006 (UK)

Genre:

Crime | Thriller

Tagline:

Can you stomach it?

Plot:

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

Plot Keywords:

Fetish | Food | Female Nudity | Disturbing | Perversion

Cast

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
Helen Thearle	...	Young Phillip's Mother
Peter Holloway	...	Young Phillip's Father

Runtime:

Canada:101 min

Country:

Australia

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Australia:R | Italy:VM18 | Canada:18A (Ontario) | USA:Not Rated | UK:18 | Germany:18 | New Zealand:R18

Filming Locations:

Kings Cross, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Company:

All At Once

Goofs:

Factual errors: The license plates used in "Toledo, OH" are clearly the thinner yellow Australian plates, not the red white and blue Ohio plates.

Movie Connections:

References Fight Club (1999)

Soundtrack:

Hip Hip Hooray

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.