Feast

As the years have gone by horror films have taken on a new direction, with the explosion of the Japanese horror genre and the sophistication of the audience, filmmakers have had to step up their craft to keep the viewers content. With the advance in special effects, even low budget films get the look of bigger budget movies, but here the better effects don't help a story that is weak in plot and doesn't have an ending that's satisfying. Four murderous beasts trap patrons of a out of the way desert bar and begin killing them off one by one, and as the people realize that the only way to survive is to work together, the beasts start to change their tactics of attack. The set up of characters through captions as each one is brought into focus slows down the scenes and becomes annoying real fast. The effects used for the creatures and the killings are very well done but as I've said before good effects are not a substitute for an inadequate storyline. The array of characters are well identified, every single one of them are people you would find in any bar on a Saturday night, and the actors portray them as honest representations of the stereotypical barflies.
With no clear conclusion to the story its hard to say that you can enjoy this film and want to rewatch it, the plot is cloudy and with no resolution to the story you feel that you've been cheated after watching the whole thing. The ending would have been better if it was being set up for a sequel but its not even that inventive, it just ends and that's it. Coming from first time director John Gulager, its not that bad but with a little bit more effort in the way of a story it could have been a lot better.