FEED (2005)
**
A semi-decent exploitation schlockfest redeemed by a You’ve never seen anything like it factor and a particularly gory final act, director Brett Leonard’s Feed is a nasty piece of work that dares you, from pretty much the very beginning, to keep watching though the proceedings get increasingly more disturbing and near-unwatchable. Consistently campy and chock full of the kinetic editing and dizzying camerawork that seems to be the increasing norm in straight-to-video B-movies, Feed rises above its peers with an intriguing story showcasing with some truly audacious visuals.
Phillip, an investigator in Australia who is investigating crimes on the internet, discovers a subculture of fetishists who enjoy watching women being fed to death-defying levels of morbid obesity on an undergound website. Discovering the site’s origin in Ohio, he flies out and soon begins a cat-and-mouse chase with the site’s developer, a sociopath named Michael who had been tracking Phillip’s investigation of his site. Though Michael proclaims that his site is an empowering vehicle wherein obese women are liberated from the standards of thinness imposed by society, Michael soon learns Phillip has a far more sinister motive, and becomes determined to stop him.
Peppered throughout this story are graphic sex scenes, some interesting music choices (you may never quite hear The Association’s song “Cherish” the same way again…), and yes, enough full-frontal nudity of obese women to suggest that Leonard is shamelessly gunning for shock value, which he fully achieves. Throw in some decomposing corpses and a particularly unsettling scene of cannibalism, and you’ve got Feed - the last movie you want to see after a big meal.
- Logan Crow
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