Feed (2006)

Wonderful character development!

Just perfect...

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

This movie was overall a fun experience. Twisted and horrible, what more can you ask for? The only bad feature, and it's a big one, is the excess preaching and that cliche "I'm pointing my gun at you but instead of shooting you, I'll just listen to you talk and talk and talk", got tired of that in the end. Otherwise, the acting was good and the ending was one of the best endings I have EVER seen, which gives this movie a solid 7. I applaud the makers for making this film, haven't seen other films touching the subject of feeders.

Loathsome obesity porn that debases its viewers, and I'm giving it a solid 8! You find yourself having your face rubbed into the obese corpulent bodies of Deidre and watching her have food poured onto her, with dehumanizing and sickening actions abounding, all surrounded by an aura of pornographic sleaze and men suddenly dropping trouser and more penis than you were probably counting on when you walked in the door. And then more debasement and humiliation, and titillation, and the film keeps dangling (between the male nudity) the promise that you'll be given a snuff scene for a "happy ending," and -- it's all just a big sick mindgame. It's quite a sickening experience. I applaud the film's producer, director and actors. They truly gave it all.

Feed starts in Sydney in Australia where computer expert Phillip Jackson (producer Patrick Thompson) works for the police investigating sex crimes online, while browsing the internet Jackson finds a website called Feederx where the owner force feeds a woman named Deidre (Gabby Millgate) who has become incredibly fat. Jackson feels that force feeding someone is illegal as is starving someone & manages to discover that Feederx is run by Michael Carter (producer Alex O'Loughlin) in the city of Toledo in Ohio. Jackson cannot get official sanction to go after Carter so takes it upon himself to investigate the site & discovers that people are betting online on when Deidre will die from obesity & finds out that several other obese woman who featured on the website are now listed as missing. Jackson thinks Carter is feeding women to death & making money out of it through his website, Jackson has to go it alone in order to stop Carter...This Australian production was directed by Brett Leonard this is not so much a horror film as a psychological drama that revolves around rather unpleasant events, although Feed has been getting lots of positive reviews I have to say while it's well put together I didn't really like it that much. Based on the supposed underground culture & fetish of people being forced fed until they die Feed tries hard to be more than just a simple exploitation film, the only person who kills anyone on screen is the supposed hero the cop & Deidre the obese woman is seen as being consensual with what is happening to her & there are several speeches by Carter about how he is letting Deidre be free what she wants to be & that he loves her for what she is without having to conform to societies perception of beauty. Carter tries to convince Jackson that what he is doing is justified & in a perverted way right but I don't really buy into the whole scenario & I have never heard of this feederism fetish at all, sure I've heard of a fetish for fat people but never the act of feeding someone so they get fat. Is there any evidence that a single case has ever been reported? Surely no-one would publicise it to the extent of putting it online? At 96 minutes long it does drag & it does take it's time to try & flesh out it's character's & themes but as I said it's so obscure & hard to believe that to me Feed is as much fantasy as Lord of the Rings. There are a few plot holes too, why would an Australian detective travel to the US to investigate a crime? What was his motivation? Surely there's plenty of crime to investigate & solve in Australia? Who paid for this trip? Didn't anyone else notice all these fat people disappearing before & put two & two together? The people who use the Feederx website are never seen, Carter's customers are never represented which is surely a missed opportunity.Shot mainly in Australia which doubles for Germany & Ohio in the US at times & it's very unconvincing. The film has various colour schemes with outdoor shots filmed in bright earthy colours while indoors the makers use cold blues & greys. Whether you find this disgusting will depend on your opinion of obese people, now I don't want to offend anyone here but seeing the grossly obese Deidre lying almost naked on a bed is absolutely abhorrent to me & made me feel sick. Just the image of a grossly obese woman is enough to turn my stomach, nothing that happens to her bothers me particularly but it's just such a horrible image with flabby skin, a huge stomach with stretched belly button, she has more chins than a Chinese phone book, her bingo wings are foul & during the climax she constantly shouts & screams which becomes very annoying. One person is shot & there's a brief reenactment of a real life case in Germany where two men who met each other on the internet meet up with one eating the flesh of the other but otherwise there's no blood or gore here. The whole film has an eating motif, almost every scene contains food or fat or someone eating or reference to it & the connection between food & sex is also a constant theme.The whole thing has a decent look & it has decent production values, the editing & photography are nice enough I suppose but there's no real style here. The acting is alright but nothing amazing.Feed is a film that has had lots of positive reviews but I have yet to read one that doesn't criticize it as well for at least some of the issues that I have raised, I can appreciate that it's well put together & does try to get into the mind of the psycho with reasonable success.

This movie is the first movie in almost ever that has made me gag. Michael is a young man that was left to feed his mother who was bed bound because she weighed too much to get out of bed. This marked him life. He runs a web site that is dedicated to fattening up women. His current female is Deidre and her goal is to weigh 1000 pounds. An Austrailian police officer stumbles across the site and decides to track him down and confront him about what he is doing to these women. When he gets to the U.S., he tracks Michael down and discovers that there is more to him than just a web site about fattening women up. This movie should make us think about our health. Deidre is in a fat suit the entire movie and it is just gross. She is spread out all over her bed with a bucket positioned to catch her waste. Just seeing what was supposed to be excreted fat was enough to make me gag. It came close to being as nasty as the phlegm scene in Drag Me To Hell. Michael was extremely well acted. If another Ann Rice movie were made, he'd be my choice for Lestat. This is not a horror or gore movie, it's just gross.