The Feast (2021)
(Gwledd)
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.39:1 93m
Director: Lee Haven Jones
Cast: Annes Elwy, Nia Roberts, Julian Lewis Jones, Steffan Cennydd
Synopsis:
Drilling on a farm in the Welsh hills is interrupted by a grisly accident, and preparations for the landowners' elaborate dinner party take an increasingly ominous turn when the new help arrives.
Review:
This slow to build Welsh horror film has its roots in a local legend ('Do not disturb the spirit of the Rise...') and environmental anxieties surrounding fracking and the like. The family are a pretty unpleasant lot, and the girl says next to nothing, so it is not hard to guess what is coming. Plenty of repellent detail goes partly unexplained, much of it centred around the food (never was a movie banquet less appetising). Still, aside from the wooden performances the camerawork is fine, gliding around the modernist bungalow and making great play of shallow focus, and Vivaldi's Cum dederit provides suitably solemn bookends.
(Gwledd)
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.39:1 93m
Director: Lee Haven Jones
Cast: Annes Elwy, Nia Roberts, Julian Lewis Jones, Steffan Cennydd
Synopsis:
Drilling on a farm in the Welsh hills is interrupted by a grisly accident, and preparations for the landowners' elaborate dinner party take an increasingly ominous turn when the new help arrives.
Review:
This slow to build Welsh horror film has its roots in a local legend ('Do not disturb the spirit of the Rise...') and environmental anxieties surrounding fracking and the like. The family are a pretty unpleasant lot, and the girl says next to nothing, so it is not hard to guess what is coming. Plenty of repellent detail goes partly unexplained, much of it centred around the food (never was a movie banquet less appetising). Still, aside from the wooden performances the camerawork is fine, gliding around the modernist bungalow and making great play of shallow focus, and Vivaldi's Cum dederit provides suitably solemn bookends.
(Gwledd)
Country: GB
Technical: col/2.39:1 93m
Director: Lee Haven Jones
Cast: Annes Elwy, Nia Roberts, Julian Lewis Jones, Steffan Cennydd
Synopsis:
Drilling on a farm in the Welsh hills is interrupted by a grisly accident, and preparations for the landowners' elaborate dinner party take an increasingly ominous turn when the new help arrives.
Review:
This slow to build Welsh horror film has its roots in a local legend ('Do not disturb the spirit of the Rise...') and environmental anxieties surrounding fracking and the like. The family are a pretty unpleasant lot, and the girl says next to nothing, so it is not hard to guess what is coming. Plenty of repellent detail goes partly unexplained, much of it centred around the food (never was a movie banquet less appetising). Still, aside from the wooden performances the camerawork is fine, gliding around the modernist bungalow and making great play of shallow focus, and Vivaldi's Cum dederit provides suitably solemn bookends.