Review: ‘Feast 2, Sloppy Seconds’ on DVD

Director John Gulager has been the best thing to come out of the ‘Project Greenlight’ series, wowing audiences with ‘Feast’, his feature debut. Gulager has managed to maintain his momentum and deliver the goods with his sequel ‘Feast 2: Sloppy Seconds’. And as if this wasn’t enough, just as the sequel makes its way to the fans, Gulager is already in post-production on the third installment to round out his trilogy called ‘Feast 3: The Happy Finish’. The DVD was released by Dimension Extremes on October 7, 2008.

‘Feast 2: Sloppy Seconds’ will certainly please the biggest fans of the horror genre. In a rare anomaly of this universe, this is a sequel that doesn’t suck. The big uglies from the original have managed to work their way into a small nearby town followed by the survivors of the first film’s brutal bar attack. The tough biker chicks find themselves teaming up with the town’s survivor’s in an effort to fend off the gnarly beasties and somehow survive this incredible ordeal.

‘Feast 2’ reminds me a bit of ‘Tremors 2’ meets ‘From Dusk til Dawn’… except, these critters are for meaner and far more capable of kicking your ass than the giant graboids and their bipedal offspring. As the group of hopeful survivors goes through an off-and-on strategy of running and hiding, they make efforts to figure out how to kill the creatures when fighting for their lives. In one scene, a truly grotesquely disgusting but hilarious one at that, one of the survivors is poking around the insides of a dead “monster” and stumbles upon virtually every nasty body fluid contained within the beast, which is apparently pressurized within the corpse as it sprays out and covers virtually everyone in the room.

The film maintains is stylistic camerawork and its tongue-in-cheek approach to horror. The creatures are really just a tool to get at the great characters and their interactions with each other, which is what makes this film super cool! Aside from the remaining biker chicks led by Biker Queen, we are introduced to Honey Pie, the locksmith/wrestling midget twins Thunder (Martin Klebba) and Lightning, the used car salesman Slasher, the overly optimistic Secrets (Hannah Putnam) and Greg, the guy baby-killer who was poking around on the dead monster. The bartender (Clu Gulager) from the first film returns as well, serving mainly as a tie-in character but does have one scene where he kicks another character’s butt.

The best advice I can give you about viewing ‘Feast 2’ is to leave your expectations at the door and do not let your guard down… this film will shock, surprise and possibly disgust you. Just when you think Gulager’s done the worst he could do on film, he goes and one-ups himself. For those interested, there is a decent supply of naked tattooed ta-tas, not to mention a make-shift catapult contraption and a hybrid feline creature, a la the dog alien from ‘Alien 3’. If you liked the first ‘Feast’ then you’ll probably love the sequel, but I would recommend seeing the original first if you haven’t as the story basically picks up where the first left off, even though the story is minimal.

[rating:3.5/5]