jlthornb51 The final entry in the Feast Trilogy is probably the finest of the three films and certainly the most satisfying in a cinematic sense. Director John Culager has produced an epic finish to his work and in the process made an outstanding stand alone motion picture as well. Here he has perfected his stylistic technique, influenced by the French New Wave Extremity Horror films. Sensitively observed and arrestingly impressionistic, the tension and suspense is at times overwhelming as Culager creates an sinister atmosphere of fear and dread. He certainly gets great work from his wonderful cast and Clu Culager, the director's iconic father, gives what's virtually the performance of a lifetime as the grizzled, heroic bartender. The closing scene will be talked about for many years as it's quite reminiscent of Reed's The Third Man and Antonioni's The Passenger. It is a brave artist indeed who allows the drama and suspense to build naturalistically with a static camera as an actor's expression alone tells us all the audience needs to know. Culager obviously trusts and respects both the script and his actors. Powerful, horrifying, and quite a deeply fascinating cinematic experience, especially for those familiar with French New Wave.

thesar-2 Without a $100 million budget and at least one explanation, Feast III: The Happy Finish is, in fact, finished before it began.Not that I had too much of a problem with this all-but unnecessary completion to the Feast trilogy, but it certainly overstayed its welcome in Texas.The biggest problem, without going into obvious finale spoilers or comparing it to the one movie I sorely want to as that would be a dead giveaway, was that the writers were so concerned with going the opposite way for the "surprise factor" (as seen in the first two installments) that myself or any viewers of the series knew exactly who was going to die and pretty much when. Even in part II, it was partially unclear who would live, be triumphant, prevail against the demons or last the longest at least. Here, since they failed to change anything up, bull's eyes were immediately placed. And that was marginally sad.HELL – after you finish part II and you merely see III's subtitle, you know what's coming.I digress; it's sad, because by this point in absolute chaos, desperation and continual disappointment for our antiheroes and their fates, you'd wish for just one break, one tiny amount of satisfaction in these people's plight. Sure, they're pretty much all scum – as the series proclaims all individuals on screen, with the exception of maybe one or two from the original, but you get to the point of: "Oh, come on…enough going the opposite way and show that it can't rain all the time."Part III didn't just start immediately following the tragic finale of Part II, it reversed a bit as if anyone who's made it this far forgot what happened before. The remaining survivors continue to fight the terrible creatures running amok in an instant ghost town in Texas. They continue to fight, scramble, make more enemies than friends, get eaten…you know, they feast-usual. But, this time, they're met with a Obi-Wan prophet of Doofus proportions who apparently can magically ward off the creatures.Will these lowlifes meet certain doom? Will the creature learn to speak and say "Why didn't anyone ever just come out and ask us: 'Hey, how did you guys come into existence?' We'd love to tell you our side of the story…" Will there actually be a HAPPY FINISH?The movie's below par and below the first two chapters…but, it's really not the worst horror movie I've seen. It's loyal to the "fan," it's more of the same for that "fan" to enjoy and if you did like the first two, you'll enjoy the newest chapter.Now, will there be a Part IV? Here's my take: They would literally need a $100 (or more) million budget and a finale's finale with full disclosure of the events of the films.So, I guess the answer is: hell no. Feast fans: just sit back and enjoy what will inevitably be the final chapter.

Tonci Pivac I was for sure the third film couldn't possibly be as painful as the second one, and boy was I wrong. Just the underground strobe light sequence where you can't decipher what the hell was going on as infected humans, a monster, and our lone survivors are duking it out, I went for the Tylenol. This film deals with those left alive at the end of the second film, dealing with the monsters as they discover three new characters along the way. One is a prepared and confident leader type whose fate is sealed when he attempts to show Secrets how to shoot a pistol. One is a very talented martial artist whose arms are both eaten off leaving him little help to anyone. The third is a prophet who seems to have the gift to ward off the monsters, only to discover that it's the screeching sound of his ear piece causing them to move away. The prophet talks the remaining members from the second film into going underground in the sewer tunnels and this idea, while seeming like an ideal strategy, doesn't help them as infected human freaks, demented and violent, are wandering around. And, behind them comes a monster. Those that remain include Biker Queen(Diane Goldner), Secrets(Hanna Putnam), Greg(Tom Gulager), Lightning(Juan Longoria García), Bartender(Clu Gulager), and Tat Girl(Chelsea Richards). Following the Prophet, they encounter far more danger than possibly realized. At the start of the film, they are able to finally get inside the sheriff's office, getting their revenge on Hobo(William Prael)who kept the building locked tight, by beating him to a pulp. When they realize that this will only service them temporarily, the gang splits up after exiting. Discovering Hobo's meth lab(..in a school bus buried under the earth), Biker Queen and Tat Girl finally believe they will be able to finally flee the premises, encountering engine problems. That's when they meet the Prophet, watching him command the monsters to scatter, and follow him into the sewers.I don't know what director Gulager was attempting to accomplish with the ending, regarding the giant robot, but I was at my wit's end with the movie anyway. You get plenty of bloody carnage, but seeing what's going on is a major factor I struggled with. I soon just gave up caring and followed the mind-numbingly brain-dead flick until it's conclusion, breathing a sigh of relief as the Elvis impersonator was singing some song in Mexican as the credits rolled. For those that care, Slasher(Carl Anthony Payne II)gets anal raped by a monster who impregnates him, creating a hybrid human creature spawn! When the movie moves underground, almost all of it is incomprehensible and dark. There's some use of "nocturna vision", but even that is shot in such a haphazard manner, I doubt few will be satisfied. And, as the first two films proved, these characters have little worth, so their deaths couldn't come fast enough. John Allen Nelson is Sh#tkicker, the hero stereotype Gulager gets rid of just for the hell of it and Craig Henningsen is Jean Claude Seagal, the kickboxer who doesn't hold onto his arms very long. Josh Blue barely registers as Prophet, under a cloak, he mumbles directions and occasionally tells the monsters to take a hike as others complain of how noisy his hearing aid is, not knowing that it's loud frequency irritates the beasties. Greg goes almost the entire film with that pipe jammed into his face, and Bartender attempts to cauterize Claude Seagal's wounds like in Rambo III blowing the poor kid's other arm off!

dbborroughs Third film in the series starts a few minutes before the end of the second and deals with the survivors of the monster invasion of a small town trying to get to safety. Its a bleak black gory occasionally humorous film that is better than the second one but not as good as the first. Plot wise there isn't much to say beyond that. What I can say is that some of the madness of the first film returns. The on-screen description of everyone and their chances is back, as is a tighter reign on the on screen happenings. I don't think the film makes any more sense than the second, but at least the film doesn't get lost in long sequences that go on for no good reason. Since seeing it last night I'm wondering if this is better served by just jumping from the first film and letting your mind fill in all of the blanks. I don't know. I know if this and the second film had been cut together they might have made one really good film instead of two just okay ones. I do like the very end song which is wonderfully bizarre in a good way. Worth a look if you saw the first one and don't mind tasteless blood and guts.