"Feast 3: The Happy Finish" DVD Review - Written by Anthony Thurber

Feast 3: The Happy Finish
Year: 2009
Director: John Gulager
Studio: Dimension Extreme
Stars: Jenny Wade, Diane Ayala Goldner, Clu Gulager
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Running Time: 79 Mins.





“Feast 3: The Happy Finish” picks up where “Feast 2: Sloppy Seconds” left off, where the survivors are left on a rooftop and trying to fend off the monstrous beasts. A mysterious prophet, Shot Bus Gus who mysteriously can control these beasts, rescues them, from their situation. He leads them to the sewers, so they can escape to the big city. Along the way, the group get added assistance from a teenager and karate expert, who goes by the name (get this) Jean-Claude Seagal. Soon they begin to learn, where these beasts came from and begin to fight back and fight back in this alleged final chapter, of the Feast saga.

Film Review:

Going into “Feast 3: The Happy Finish, I was hoping for something different, even though the last film left, with a cliffhanger ending. But, this film is pretty much the same thing as its predecessor, but with a few differences. If you liked the second one, like I did, then this isn’t a bad film for you. But if you did hate it, then don’t bother with this film. John Gulager’s direction, for the most part was good. One of the things that I like about him is that he’s not afraid to try something different. I like how he allows his director of photograph to use various techniques, in filming some of the scenes, like the night vision and the slow motion methods. It makes the film very weird, which it’s suppose to be. He also handle the gore factor, very well, as it’s was campy and bloody. The acting in this, for the most part was good. All the actors were enjoyable to watch and they delivered film’s sick and twisted action, very well.

Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan, the duo behind the lifeless and boring “Saw V” are back writing the screenplay, in this installment. The screenplay, for the most part was good. The two did a great job in moving of the pace of the along, something that should been in their “Saw V” script. I liked how they went all out here, as I didn’t personally think that it could even more deranged than in the “Feast II, but it did. The story is that way, because the screenwriters are going for a shock value that succeeds and makes this film fun. The film, like the second film is not short of outrageous characters, as there is a couple of new one here including, like a prophet like characters, and knife wielding karate kid that came out of “The Karate Kid”. It helps bring humor to the film and make the action. Also, the ending of the film is something that totally fucked up and you would never see in a horror film, but I found myself loving it nonetheless, as provides a good laugh. It’s like one of those things that you would expect to see in spoof movies, not in horror films. Also stay for the end credits, as that part is more bizarre too, but good nonetheless.

If there was a downside to this film is was the fact that we don’t get to know more about these beasts, instead we are introduced to zombie like creatures that lives underneath the sewers. That’s all good and everything, but the main focal point is find out, how these things came from, not trying to blend every genre that they can think of, which they kind of did here. I though this was supposed to be your creature feature type film, not the all the horror genres blend into one film. What next, vampires or werewolves making appearance. Maybe we can squeeze in the mummy too. I’m just saying, the screenwriters should stay the course that made the original “Feast”, so great. Mix in, the bloody violence with humor, as long as they don’t keep us hanging with eternal question that this series has. Where did the beast come from?

DVD Extras:

Like “Feast 2: Sloppy Seconds”, this disc lacks in extras. First on the disc is the audio commentary track, which Director John Gulager, Writers, Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan and Producer Michael was surprising a very commentary track, considering that I didn’t enjoy the Feast 2 commentary track. One of the main differences is that this goes more into the film’s production, then coming off, like a Gulager family picnic, which the second one felt like. They also gave information into the film production and how some of the cast came to work, on the project, which made it interesting.

Next on the disc, an 8-minute featurette entitled “A Look Back at John Gulager” This pretty is look at the director, after winning “Project Greenlight”. It was a good look, at Gulager. It’s pretty much, looks at him as a person after “Project Greenlight” and the films that he directed.

Finally, there are a couple of trailers for “Feast” and “Feast 2”

All in all, I wished that they would have had a behind the scene featurette for this film, but that’s a problem when this film along with “Feast 2” was shot back to back. It doesn’t give detail into the behind the scenes process, which doesn’t give you an idea, how the production went.

Summary:

If you liked the first two “Feast” films like I did, then you will like this. If you didn’t or haven’t seen any of the two previous films, then either skip this or go back, which I recommend and catch up on one of the most outrageous and bloody horror franchises to come out, in the last ten years.

Review Rating 3.5 Stars
DVD Extras: 2 Stars