Feed the Devil

This has to be the dumbest movie ever. The main character is an ignorant drunk with a stupid trashy girlfriend and her equally stupid sister. They set out for God knows where based on a map drawn on a napkin, in a beat up pickup truck. The rest is just nonsensical garbage.

Pass on this mess.

Wannabe drug dealer Marcus (Jared Cohn), his girlfriend and her sister go looking for a crop of marijuana that they have been told about in the Alaskan wilderness but when they get there they encounter evil supernatural forces. The UK DVD promises so much, somebody rating it a 9/10 movie, blah, blah, blah but watching this was a miserable experience. For a start Marcus is such an unlikable character, every other word is the F word, this quickly become tiresome. The acting in the movie is terrible and I gave up trying to fathom out the mess of a plot. There are a few gory bits and the scenery is nice, otherwise I would advise avoiding this turd. Utterly terrible.

If you can get past the clumsy, clichéd opening scene (and I almost didn't) you will discover both an atmospheric, serious, technically well-made, frequently interesting film and, at the same time, a film with major weaknesses that is also frequently tedious and confounding. Do the good points outweigh the bad? It would depend on what is most important to the individual. The stupid, reckless behavior of the characters (necessary to drive the film forward) is justified by the fact that they are depicted as stupid, reckless people. However since they are also neither interesting nor sympathetic (which are more important to me than that horrible Hollywood phrase "likable") it is impossible to care or be concerned for them. They are presented believably (sadly, I've met similar types) - and believably performed by the actors - but that's never going to allow for the necessary third act switch to hero mode and even as victims I found myself on the side of "whatever is in the woods" more than once. Yet overall the mood is always strong, and the mystery grows unnervingly, but then it is diluted by too much repetitive action (caught, survived, escapes, caught, rinse and repeat) and the inexplicable occurrence of sustaining injuries that never seem to last more than a few minutes - or until, another round of survived-escapes-and caught again. Disagreeable, and boring, characters, lapses in logic, and even very confused and inconsistent geography and staging do nothing to help the film, but I return again to the impressively ominous and creepy tone; much of the photography and editing is excellent and there are some very nice and original developments (a mute woman wandering by the side of the road who attaches herself to the characters as if entitled, and who may be viewed as a victim or a threat, is by far the best) that makes it difficult to simply disregard the film or suggest everyone bypass it. With the exception of that opening scene (which feels like it was tacked on from another movie) there is enough violent threat, scares (not the easy-cheesy jump-scare type) and creepy scenes to appease even a discerning watcher of genre films, but the question remains; do the good points outweigh the bad? And I'll admit that I felt one way immediately after the movie ended, and another way by the time this review was written.

I saw new added to Hulu so I figured I would give it a watch. That was a mistake (I hate misleading cover art). Well I was bored with it about 1/4 of the way through and just forced myself to watch the rest. It remained constant boring, no real excitement, no real story to speak of, and the acting was sub-par at best. This was obviously a low budget film that did not use that budget well. I would have given this film a rating of one, but the scenery and location shots were at least good.

First, I don't see how anyone would have though that such a offensive movie toward people who land was stolen and almost exterminated was a good thing. Then you have the biggest loser around, surviving more than five minute under those conditions. I would have liked this movie a LOT better if the main character hadn't been such a loser. Yeah, sure, a very lousy low level city crook, who gets beaten by his own alcoholic mother, that was in a drunken stupor before beating the guy with a bat, would somehow survive mosquitoes. This movie makes the horror genera even more idiotic than it usually is. (And I'm a horror movie fan.)