TALES FROM NETFLIX: Feast 2

A tag team midget luchador Dirk Diggler...
A vengeful bad ass twin biker queen...
Monster on cat beastiality...
Monster farting, spewing, spooging dissection orgies...
Group vomiting...
Baby tossing...
Decomposing grandma catapulting...
Feast 2 is truly a feast of foulness and depravity, and god damn I love it!
Give me the craziest shit you can think up, any day of the week.
Does it cross the line? Or every line? Yes. Okay by me, if you tell a fun story, and although Feast 2 (and the original) revel in the taboo, they've got a hell of a lot more going for them.

I absolutely loved the first film, the Project Greenlight season 3 winner was a ballsy in your face send up of the survival horror genre, mixing 2 parts Tremors with equal parts Tarantino and Truama films. Mysterious beastial creatures cornering a dozen or so desert drifters in a hole in the wall bar, and literally fucking with them. Sprinkle in a couple oddball cameos and supporting actors, like Jason Mewes (Jay of Jay and Silent Bob fame), Trech (of OPP fame), Judah Friedlander (of VH1 trucker hat video/Best Week Ever pseudo fame), along with Henry Rollins to kick some ass in pink sweat pants, and the quirk ratchets up a few notches.Feast quickly establishes that it will mercilessly fuck with any and all survival horror formulas, and constantly use that to it's advantage. With the sequel literally picking up from the final frames of the first, we're fairly certain we're in for more of the same. And while the sequel breaks new ground, like taking the production outside the walls of the only bar setting of the first for instance, it mostly suffers for it. The opening act is a bit manic, and not near up to par with what's come before, but once things come together, and the setting gets dark again, it really hits it's stride.
This time out we have an entirely new cast of misfits (mostly, a couple familiar faces do welcomely return), and a broader scope, along with more monsters, but the trademark bat shit crazy characters and situations are very in keeping with the first film! And again, Feast 2 Sloppy Seconds is daringly nasty, so if you can't throw down with no holds barred cinema, don't bother. If however, like me, you're overjoyed at the prospect, Feast 2 is an instant classic, just like the first. And while the original was a buzzer to buzzer success, the second does falter a bit as I said at the start, and also have some spotty effects at times, but in the end I could care less, it's still a hell of a good time.So, if you didn't see the first film, and somehow missed my mad joyous ravings about it, here's a sloppy second chance to throw in on the Feast bandwagon... because with this one's ending, the creative forces behind this franchise (the original director and scriptwriters returned for the sequel) are clearly down for more!

HIGHEST RECOMMENDATION!

RECENT RUNDOWN

HELL RIDE - Tarantino produces what seemed like it could've been a "Grindhouse" feature, but you quickly realize why it's not... All the elements of a Tarantino work are there, Michael Madsen, desert setting, soundtrack, jump cut timeline, but all the substance is lacking. It's a confusing mess with a questionable cast, but shot really nice, and is cool to look at...

MILDLY RECOMMENDED

SDCC 08 update 1 - Wednesday/Thursday

Here's a quick update from San Diego Comic-Con 2008...
wish you were here dear readers!

This first update is all the best booth stuff I could fit on my old pig of a digital camera.

First up we have the new Bond car with a cool ginormous Craig/Bond banner
Then we have a life size prop from the big upcoming Watchmen, that is so cool, the Nite Owl's ship... it even has a full interior too!And yes, if you're at the show, you too can win a Nerd Herd mobile (from Chuck, I love that show!)Apparantly the truly awesome Feast, the recent Project Greenlight winning monster horror flick that's Tremors meets Tarantino, has a sequel coming (cool!) and this is one of the creatures!!!
Lost Boys are back all of a sudden 21 years later, and have this RV setup at the con... Probably Corey's Feldmen's home, just parked in the booth space...Lots of Transformers stuff at one of the toy booths (Hasbro?)... a cool giant logo, 8' stands of the cartoon Optimus and Bumblebee, and I think this last thing was from Transformers? Anyone?
Hasbro (again I think) also had some cook action figure displays, they had a big diorama featuring scenes from all 4 Indy films, this was the Raiders... and a cool Cloverfield display complete with NYC carnage and copters!Iron Man is also everywhere, here's a cool life size movie armor!! (wouldn't it be cool if you could wear it? just think of the lines for that, the Iron Man experience)... and also the mark 1 armor...He-Man fanatics rejoice... a life size bronze statue of the man of he, and life size Grayskull!!!As always, lots of cool Star Wars stuff... here's a life size AhsokaThat's all I could fit on the ol memory card, tune in tomorrow for more, and hopefully some friendly faces...