Feast II: Sloppy Seconds

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A whole lot is thrown at the screen here, but there is no cohesive or interesting story. In the special features, the director says that he told he writer "biker chicks, little people, a catapult" and had him write a story on that. And it shows. While Feast I was fresh, original, funny, with characters to root for, here they've just turned everything up a couple of notches, just for the sake of it: so we have the shooting of a dog, a baby's death, all sorts of bodily functions and liquids thrown at people's faces, sacrificing of a grandmother. Nothing is sacred, except a good script. The result is not funny, or all that involving. The story starts with a biker chick finding the hand of her dead sister and swearing revenge on whoever is responsible. She drags along the bartender from part I and has her fellow gang members join her. She is the main character and is rather unattractive. No Krista Allen to be seen here, unfortunately. There are some cute fellow biker chicks but they don't get to do anything or say anything. At least near the end two of them get topless. They end up in a town and meet up with: 2 Mexican little people wrestlers and their grandmother, a sleazy used car lot owner, his woman who is cheating on him with an even sleazier car salesman, some other survivor from part I whose involvement is pointless. For no reason whatsoever, all of these people agree to take part in the gang leaders quest to avenge her sister's death. This involves getting into to town jail where the killer and his relative are. The jail is also the safest place in town. Meanwhile, the monsters are killing, eating, and reproducing with anything that is alive and in sight. But the sense of dread is not there at all. For a long time the monsters pose no threat to our group. Eventually they kill a monster and dissect it. During the dissection we get the over-the-top gross-out moments that involve all bodily fluids and then some. The plot is to make a key to get into the jail since the guy there won't let them in. That plan doesn't work. So the group gets on the roof of a building across the jail. The idea now is to catapult the little people onto the jails roof using a motorcycle's power to launch the catapult. How the bike got on the roof is anyone guess, but the movie doesn't care about details. It just wants to show us gimmicks. That plan doesn't work too well either. While all this is going on, a survivor girl from part I locked herself up in a store. Monsters are getting in, and she escapes. This movie is somewhat of a letdown given that Feast I was so excellent. It suffers from a reverse sequel curse. Rather than running out of ideas, they overdid it completely. Out of the 15 or so character we have in this movie and who survive for most of the movie, none of them is noteworthy. Perhaps that's the point. What we should take note of is all the disgusting and offensive stuff. I can tolerate and accept all those scenes if there were a story and development to go with it, otherwise it's just the filmmakers bragging about what they were able to get away with. That said, the movie is nicely filmed. Unlike horror movies that keep the lame tradition of shooting everything in the dark, here it's all nicely lit. The cinematography is very good. There's a beautifully shot dream/nightmare scene. These guys know how to make a movie but they let their guard down and decided to just have fun with things rather than do the hard part and work at a script. It still recommended for horror fans, especially now that horror has become so sanitized. This is heavy dose of insanity and disgusting stuff to make up for that. But it's no Feast I nor particularly funny nor horrific.

OK, the first Feast is a bit better because it was fresh and new, but Feast II is just as fun for different reasons. Where the first was a bit scarier, and a bit more serious, if that's possible in a genre like this, Feast II sets out to be nothing but goofy, gross, bloody, and envelope bending. It succeeds on all those counts. I found the characters dialog often funny, the monsters very gross and the kills even more creative than the first. The fart/sperm scene was over-the-top awesome. I also laughed uproariously during the baby scene as we couldn't believe they were going there. The Honey Pie stuff could have been cut as it didn't really serve much of a purpose, save a few good gross outs. Rent it, buy it, watch it if you like stuff like Peter Jackson's early movies. Ragnar

Yes, this movie is not quite up to par with the first one. My first complaint has to do with the way the characters were introduced. They replaced the whole words on the screen with a kind of video introduction that just is not as good as the "Animal House" type description of characters. The character's this time are not quite as appealing as the first either. I really liked the guy considered the jerk in the first movie and all the characters who had a large role were good. I really missed Rollins in this one, though I realize they could not really bring him back. Granted I did like that Clu was back as was Honey, and I rather liked the midget wrestler's too. Nobody else though was really all that special as the biker chick was a bit to serious for this movie. The story in this one is just a sort of a continuation of the first movie. Apparently, the monsters that attacked the bar were not alone as another group were attacking a small town at about the same time. We our introduced to some new characters and a biker chick who was the sister of the girl blown up in the first. She is out to get our hero from the last movie, last seen driving away in his car. The one gal is back in this film who left the people in the bar for dead too, granted it looks like the main reason she was brought back was so she could be tortured. So what can you expect from this movie. Lots of gore and kills that is to be sure. A monster autopsy that goes beyond the yuck factor, you just will shake your head at parts of that. A less than spectacular baby rescue. A rather stupid attempt at a catapult for flinging little people, though grandma gets to go first and lots of monsters tearing through the city and doing it with cats. Still, feels like a movie that is direct to video and has a cheapness about it the first movie did not. The ending to was a bit disappointing as it seemed right out of the very bad "Automaton Transfusion".

I dug the hell out of this flick. FEAST 1 brought the scary. FEAST II brings the laughs. It is a SPLATS-STICK horror romp that doesn't let up from start to bloody finish. This time the unlucky cast of miscreants is seeking shelter in a small town over run with the creatures from the first film. Hints that the creatures may be breeding outside their own kind lead to one set-up after another of our human protagonists trying to outwit the horny beasts. When all else fails, one member of the group, the #1 used car salesman Greg Swank (Tom Gulager) elects to perform the most disgusting, dangerous misfire of an autopsy in cinema history. On the surface it is a wave of other worldly fluids and organs but it is also a sly commentary on the nature of anyone that claims to know anything about the diabolically "unknown." John Gulager is no one trick pony. FEAST II delivers the goods and then some. For claiming to have half the budget, at times, this entry looks quite a bit bigger than the first. Against all logic, but making perfect sense in a "feast-ian" way, the great Judah Friedlander is on hand for a scene that dares to be sexy. To see is to believe. FEAST II is not for the queasy or anyone under drinking age. It is booze, * and buckets of blood. Hallelujah! A sequel with balls...and all the other organs you can think of. I'll take more Sloppy Seconds any day!! The Crank!

A simple premise (a group of people are attacked by several vicious monsters); a great collection of characters played by a dependable cast; a remote, claustrophobic setting (a roadside bar in the middle of the desert); a deliciously twisted sense of humour; and buckets of outrageous gore: these are the elements that went to make the first Feast such a tasty treat for horror hounds. Feast II consists of the many of the same ingredients, only this time director John Gulager changes the recipe slightly (adding even more gross-out comedy) and tries to ladle out a much larger helping: more monsters attack a bigger target (a small town), causing greater chaos and carnage. Of course, bigger does not necessarily equal better: the result is a fun sequel, but one which, as the subtitle suggests, is also rather sloppy. As in the first film, Gulager quickly introduces his audience to an eclectic cast of characters (including a second hand car salesman, his adulterous wife and her lover, a biker queen and her gang, and two micro-wrestlers) before bringing on the real stars of the show, the toothy critters with a hunger for human flesh, who spend the rest of the film making a mess out of pretty much everyone who crosses their path. Eventually, after a series of close encounters with the nasty creatures, a small group of survivors gather together on the roof of a building and attempt to stay alive long enough to figure a way out of their predicament. It must've seemed like a logical progression to up the ante second time around, but in opting to take the action to a much larger playing field, Gulager seems to have bitten off a little more than he can chew: the story is less focused, the characters not so well defined, and the monsters too exposed (now they actually look like men in rubber suits!). In order to detract his audience from the film's obvious weaknesses, the director very wisely chooses to play the 'bad-taste' card: he presents his audience with so much revolting gore, grue and potentially offensive material, that he hopes they won't notice its flaws. It's a plan that very nearly succeeds. Viewers are treated to so many delightfully demented moments, that it is easy for degenerates like me to be a little too forgiving about the film's less effective qualities. With dwarf sex, mass vomiting, cat-rape, an OAP launched by catapult, and a particularly gratuitous baby death, Gulager enures that the sick and twisted stuff comes thick and fast (particularly in one scene involving an ejaculating monster corpse!), and these moments undoubtedly make Feast II an enjoyably daft romp. When in comparison with the excellent first film, however, it should definitely be considered something of a disappointment. 6.5 out of 10, rounded up to 7 for IMDb.

There is a whole lot a things going on in the "Town" and there is going to be bucket-loads of bodily fluids flying trough the air. Feast II is obviously made with love and with one thing only in mind - to offend anyone who is not accustomed to Braindead-type of horror. Because nothing is sacred in this movie. I mean, I can think only like two or three things "worse" than what is shown in F2 but it would have been illegal and thus they couldn't include those acts in the movie. What comes to real cinematic values, like directing and so on... well don't expect intense horror and realistic reactions. Expect mediocre facial expressions and out-of-this-world situations. But hey, the cast and the crew really didn't even bother to try because you can't make this kind of movie with serious face. It's tons-of-fun and it's goooood. I say goood! If you like mad and incoherent movies with lots of corpses and you don't need solid plot because all you want is madness, then this movie is for YOU. I give it 9 stars because of the fact that this movie is so politically incorrect and the fact that it is below 5 now. Without the mad scenes this would have been a 5 out of 10. Have fun watching. And for the record, if you watch this with your girlfriend or boyfriend, tell them that you just picked it up without knowing what to expect :D

The first FEAST was a dirty surprise when it snuck out of Dimension a few years ago. It caught me off guard with it's horny monsters, be-headed heroes and dead kids. What more could one want from a late night romp? It is near impossible to re-capture a genuine sense of surprise. It is by nature a one time only sort of deal. Last night I walked into an Austin theater with my hopes on floor and big dose of trepidation. What good could come of a movie called FEAST II: SLOPPY SECONDS? More than enough. I am more than thrilled to report that John Gulager has not lost his ability to persevere in the realm of perversion with SLOPPY SECONDS. Characters that were very dead may be back and people that are surely going to die may not be so unlucky. This is ninety-minutes of breaking rules and smashing taboos. The plot is the flip side of the first entry. While FEAST was all about being inside and doing whatever it took to keep the creatures out, FEAST 2 is about the poor souls stuck outside desperate to find a place to hold up. However, a meth-head has taken over the lone stronghold which is a police station stacked hip-high with bodies and contraband. What follows are the dire measures a lady biker gang and a handful of eccentric stragglers endure as they to try to seek shelter in a storm of carnage. The creatures are winning. They are omnipresent and judging by the moment in which one of them has intercourse with an innocent house cat...the monsters are now willing to screw anything. The consequences of that horrific liaison attack the traitorous Honey Pie (Jenny Wade, back and covered in red) in a brutal fight that only hints at the amount of payback the backstabbing blonde has coming her way in this entry. With copious gore, nudity and humor, FEAST II turns a hose of inappropriateness on the horror film. The energy and twisted humor take center stage in this sequel. The shoestring budget and occasional wonky effect are more than compensated for by the rapid fire mayhem that unleashes. Creature features never get to be this obscene. They may never again. There is a promised FEAST 3 in the works. If 2 is any indication, there are more than enough clichés left to shatter. I left the theater I entered with an ear to ear grin. It is a relief and a thrill. Twisted Sister said it best: STAY HUNGRY.

Well, I don't know if I saw a different movie but I gotta say, I pretty much loved FEAST II. Pound for pound it is the most bizarre, violent and humorous movie to spray across screens in some time. The events pick up right after the iris to black on FEAST 1 and then things take a turn for the nasty as Biker Queen (Diane Goldner) the short-fused twin sister of Biker Mom (also Diane Goldner) from FEAST 1. Biker Queen is leading a pack of hot-as-hell Harley women through the desert in order to put a bullet in those responsible for her sibling's demise. Like the first film, FEAST II doesn't waste a second being normal and immediately rewinds to the creature outbreak and depicts how a few other sad sacks dealt with the blow. I don't want to get too spoiler heavy but there are a number of moments in FEAST II that just beg for a rewind. There is probably the first 80-year-old vs. girl fight that I have ever seen. There is an autopsy sequence that sent more than one audience member running for the lobby and there is an ending just after the credits roll that changes the playing field. Call me weird but I ate this sucker up. Yes, I went to college and have had sex. I know I am not alone, there were more than several audible gasps during the screening at the Alamo Draft house: "Oh my god…" "Sick bastards" "What the f?!" It is that kind of ride, folks. Fast. Gory. Funny…and GORY. After sitting through a thousand horror films and getting used to how the same types of characters under go the same types of problems and triumph in the same tired old ways, it was a B-12 shot to see midget wrestlers, used-car salesman, the elderly, the infantile and the vicious take center st age and have a movie to themselves. If you loved FEAST will you love FEAST II? They are two different beasts. FEAST 1 was a mash of horror and humor aiming to bust taboos over its bloody knee. FEAST II is a black-hearted satire of horror clichés that is built with punk and bravado. It is hard to imagine how director John Gulager sleeps at night if this is what he does all day, but screw it. I loved the mayhem. Most of the script's jokes hit and there is enough carnage & violence to keep the even the most jaded viewer grinning. After the showing, Gulager, his family, one of the writers and a ton of the cast were on hand to keep the good vibe going. I don't know how those sickos got permission to make this movie, but bless 'em, they did. Will there be a FEAST III? I fu#$%ing hope so. Bring the rumble! Bring the pain!

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