3 out of 5

Director: John Gulager

Fittingly halfway in tone between 1 and 3, Feast 2 chugs along semi-successfully with a boring first half, a silly CGI-drenched middle sequence, and an awesome last portion that revs up for movie 3. The first Feast was well-regarded on the horror movie circuit but this guy found it tonally off-putting. Respectable in that it definitely went over-the-top in that Evil Dead kind of way we all love, but lacking anything really strong, character or story or even scene wise, that really makes you jump of your chair hooting. And no ones really likable in the whole thing. 2 picks up directly from the last scene of 1, with our motivation for following the characters being Biker Queens hunt for revenge for the death of the biker woman from the first movie having her drag the bartender into town to track our survivors from Feast. In the town we gather a gaggle of strange people and get besieged by monsters. It has energy, its cruel, and the red-haired biker is gorgeous, but again we get mostly damaged people but without the confined feeling of movie one. Instead it just feels still in the town, and while characters gather and decide upon the best place to be – the jail – things are pretty slow, culminating in a night on a roof which is questionably matched to an awful green-screen background. Thankfully, the bits directly prior to this night and the following morning amp up and just go into incredible overboard territory, splashing every possible grossness on the screen and getting completely insane. This is what I loved from movie 3 and its what I loved about this one… its just too little too late here. Hows the movie overall? Meh. I dont feel enriched for having seen it. But, yknow, I dont feel my time was wasted either.