Feed Me (2022)

After winning the Best Film award at 2022's Grimmfest, Richard Oakes and Adam Leader's FEED ME is getting a digital release from Bingo Films.

When the wife of Jed Freeman (Christopher Mulvin) is found dead following a long battle with bulimia nervosa, Jed plunges into deep depression. He meets the bizarre Lionel Flack (Neal Ward) who has an even more bizarre proposition for him - that Jed be freed from his grief by allowing Lionel to eat him. 

Allegedly based on a true story that took place in Germany in 2002 (one that was spoofed in an episode of Channel 4's The IT Crowd several years ago), FEED ME is being advertised as a 'cannibal comedy horror', but don't come to this one expecting it to be an easy laugh a minute endeavour. The character of Flack is so broadly drawn and portrayed that he comes across like a sitcom version of Jeffrey Dahmer, which would be fine if the rest of the film's tone was in keeping with that, but it isn't.

Flack lives in unbelievable squalor and his house is decorated with pictures of his naked mother, giving it a John Waters by way of Pete Walker feel. His proposed victim has undergone severe emotional trauma such that the tone of the opening act is grim indeed. Grimmfest's programme notes compare FEED ME to DELICATESSEN and HOTEL POSEIDON, while the directors were previously responsible for HOSTS. All of those are rather better (or perhaps better judged) than what's on offer here. However, if you do fancy something that's going to leave you confused as to just how you should respond to it, or if you like movies that make you wonder what on earth you just saw, then FEED ME should be added to your watch list. Here's the trailer:

FEED ME is out on Digital from Bingo Films on Monday 13th November 2023