Dark Feed (2013)

Excellent adaptation.

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

A screenwriter visits the set of his horror movie in an abandoned psychiatric hospital, where a dark force begins to create its own drama.Ouch! I gave this a shot because of some good recent IMDb reviews and the writer/directors also wrote The Ward, a passable hospital horror. Problem starts with the screenplay, which trowels on 20 different characters who get lost in a series of choppy, ineffective scenes. Most of the dialogue is pointless, failing to give impetus to the dark force, and the threat is confusingly both internal and external as ghouls creep out of the shadows and the cast goes insane. Plus they chose a really lame protagonist. Total mess and very hard to sit through despite the short run time.On top of that is the damn music. It's mostly simple, eerie strings and plinky piano - but it never turns off. Even when the odd dramatic scene comes along the dialogue gets swamped, and the music completely drains other scenes of their creepiness when silence is needed. Very close to hitting the eject button.Hard to judge the actors, because their characters were so badly drawn - a bunch of squabbling 13 year olds - and their lines were so pointless and lacking in intelligence or information.Camera was also poor. Lots of reflection on the lens and bad lighting of the actors.The story did develop pace in the end, but overall just awful. A much better film in this genre is Grave Encounters.

So low rated here on the bible of flicks so I wasn't sure to pick this up or leave it for what it was. And still it's a rare one to review because some will find it scary others will turn it off. For the usual viewer and not found of horror this might have some scary moments but for horror buffs this isn't going to be your thing because to be honest, it takes a while before things go wrong.We follow a film crew that is going to shoot a low budget horror in an abandoned asylum. Of course by now you do know that this isn't a good sign. And it isn't, slowly the building becomes darker and darker. It's never explained throughout the flick what the dark feed is. We do see pictures of patients been given the dark feed or fluid but for what reason is unclear. But it do takes over more than halfway this flick before the crew goes crazy. Some are out to kill and goes berserk, others harm their own body. Sadly all killings and bloodshed is done off-camera. There's even the girl with the big boobies which you know will show them only she has her shower scene but it's all filmed from behind so even there things go wrong. If you aren't into horror this will have it's scary moments like the elevator and the shower scene but as me, a heavy horror geek it looked like okay, you want to make a cruel horror but you also want teens to see it. So let's cut down on the gore and nudity and gives it a dark atmosphere. The dark didn't feed my hunger.Gore 0/5 Nudity 0/5 Effects 2,5/5 Story 2,5/5 Comedy 0/5

Dark Feed has all the elements of a 'Sinister' 'Grave Encounters' & 'Insidious' but forgot one small thing: A set plot. Instead, it had 20 subplots with no clear goal. Yes, we get it, water filtration system is mentioned so many times I got the point by osmosis. So many of the characters had potential to be epic but none were given the staring role: the Producer is on his phone a lot but no reception, the grips & P.A.'s were losers but harmless, the special effects guy (who I think was voted off FACEOFF in the preliminary rounds for being a diva) is an artist on the edge. The Director is a flaccid and talented frustrated hack & the writer is has the personality of that guy who fixes your office copier machine. The 'Doctor' is so menacing from his black-mold covered painting but has no real role in movie & Beth (Victoria Nugent) who had a convincing and likable character discovered nothing, accomplished nothing, saved no-one & with the exception of opening 'one' book did nothing but carry lighting poles & wander almost the entire movie. Marissa (Dayna Cousins) is a fantastic actress but was give such a small role that the dog she was watching got more screen time. Rachel (Rebecca Whitehurst) got a good role to make her bones in movies but the script failed her. Enough about the characters, OK maybe just a little more. The movie Dark Feed starts off as a movie in a movie, warps into a possession/demonic/psychotics in an asylum and finishes as a weird zombie-Esq film. Oh then the editor Jessica (Jessica Lauren Napier, yes she didn't even get to change her name)decided she did not have enough screen time to get her SAG Card so she comes back at the end to off herself with office supplies.One final positive, Andrei (Jason Beaubien) and the direction that his character took is where the movie should have been focused. At that point I believe the movie could have saved it's self and then boom! he was gone. In conclusion, make this a movie that you and friends play a drinking game with, every time you or anyone goes "what"? or "WTF"...Drink.

Dark Feed is one of those films that looks cool, so you keep watching because something amazing is going to happen, you can feel it… So you keep watching and waiting… and waiting… Until the movie is over and you're like, "Damn, where did the past hour and a half go?" Dark feed had all the cool lighting, sweet sounds, awesome camera angles and shots of a horror movie, but with no movie. I really wanted to like it, but it really had no story and really weak dialog. It almost felt like a reality show a times, where you're just watching people on a film set work and talk about everyday life. The last 20 minutes of the film started to get interesting but I also felt like it didn't really matter because 70 minutes before that made my brain shutdown. A very bleak horror film overall, but it had major potential to be something amazing… Unfortunately it fell flat instead. I gave it a 4 instead of a 3 because the last 20 was pretty decent.Please like me on Facebook! You can read more of my reviews and get info on the latest movies in horror: http://www.facebook.com/pages/I-Heart-Horror/338327476286206