Feeding the Masses
Feeding the Masses
| 25 September 2004 (USA)
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A darkly satiric horror film that takes an acid look at the current state of the news media while a mysterious plague is bringing the dead back to life. A small group of news reporters and their military escort set out to tell the truth about what's happening in the world, despite the government's efforts to take control of the media.

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Matrixiole

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

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Humbersi

The first must-see film of the year.

Neive Bellamy

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

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Bessie Smyth

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

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EcofinaMan

Feeding the Masses is definitely one of the indie zombie flicks worth taking a look at. I have been privy to seeing a few gems, a few ghastly offerings and some worth while offerings.Feeding the Masses falls into the worth while category as it does try to bring a social message with it, but it tends to go off the deep end once in a while.From what I can tell the film was budgeted around $20,000 and it seems they tried to spend the money where it counted, but there is something this film lacks, lots of zombies.When I look at zombie films I want to see zombies , not just a cluster here or there, but an overall mass of rotting dead flesh engulfing the world one bite at a time.When it comes to zombie films they are never really about the zombies, they are about the characters, and zombies are just the background menace screwing up the works for everyone involved, however, Feeding the Masses uses not only the zombies, but the how the government is spinning the media frenzy surrounding the rising of the dead.One of the aspects I really enjoyed is how they delved inside the government control of media, it felt almost communist in nature, and I mean that in terms of how the filmmakers portrayed the response to the situation not that the filmmakers were promoting communism. Anyhow, the two single biggest problems I did have with Feeding the Masses was with the use of the CG explosion, and the horribly shot and put together commercials sprinkled through the film.Budget restrictions aside the film actually has a good story, but it does get lost when you look at the Video feel the film has, coupled with the cheesy CG. If those items could be fixed this would be a sure fire 7 or 8 on my rating scale.Worth a look for hardcore indie zombie film fans.

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The General

Although nothing can compare to Vampires Vs. Zombies...in any realm of film making i will attempt to judge this movie.Firstly, the special effects were breath-taking. When there was an explosion on the television screen i thought my entire house was going to explode, and when automatic machine guns were fired i thought the shells were landing on the floor right next to me. Simply stunning my friends.But the scene when the Jack Black sound-a-like is giving the worst monologue i have ever heard i nearly killed myself, but don't worry since he was getting blazed in the movie he can pass his awful acting off on "I must be high". Seriously, he must have watched himself mindlessly babbling about non-congruent thoughts that make absolutely no sense and just added that he must be "high" to justify his awful acting. Well if you can say that to excuse terrible acting then if you talked to the writers, directors, executive producers, sponsors you will probably get the same response...seriously.With a production team called "Shock-o-rama" i was shocked i didn't place a sawed-off shotgun in my mouth and ended my life after this shockingly terrible excuse for a movie was played.If you want to see this movie, then you should be murdered Yours Truly,The General

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reptilicus

Just to-day my wife and I watched three modern zombie movies in one day. I am about to discuss one of them now.FEEDING THE MASSES has "amatuer" written all over it but that is not synonymous with "bad"; don't forget THE DEAD NEXT DOOR turned out to be a decent film which surprised a lot of people. I thought I had seen the last of the "The Government can't be trusted" subgenre when the 70's ended but I guess questioning authority will always be with us.The plot? Oh yes, the plot! Something called "The Lazarus Virus" has gotten out of hand (yes, again!) and the recent dead are returning to life as . . . let's all say it together . . . flesh eating zombies! This time though the Government is trying to put a positive spin on the whole thing by taking over the news media and telling people everything is going to be "just fine" when actually things are going to Heck in a handbasket more each day. A TV station is forced to run such obvious bullbleep as a "public service" message telling you that if zombies attack just fall to the ground and play dead! Shady corporations are still out to make a quick buck by offering to track down, re-kill and respectfully re-bury walking dead loved ones. Self empowered militias of shotgun toting rednecks are cruising the streets blasting down zombies left and right and yet another group extols people to come out and join its "End of the World" party!Into the midst of all this stands a young reporter who fancies herself the next Diane Sawyer and sees the zombie attacks as her ticket to the Big Time, provided the world does not self destruct first. With her photographer (Billy Gaberina) close by she is determined to expose the official lies and alert people to the danger they are truly in. um . . . not that it isn't bloody obvious to begin with!Zombie makeups are, well, fair. Gore effects, while plentiful, are standard. The budget was so low they could not even afford blank cartridges for the guns. Actors just shake the guns like they are spewing bullets rapid fire while gunshot sounds are dubbed in.Then again, what FEEDING THE MASSES lacks in budget it makes up for in sincerity. The filmmakers have managed to put a new spin on an old subject. We kinda like this movie. Of course we also liked Umberto Lanzi's NIGHTMARE CITY and Vincent Dawn's HELL OF THE LIVING DEAD too.

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jaymz-15

The DVD cover claims to put it in a higher class than all three of the ROMERO classics. That's utter nonsense. They are either total liars or smoking some really good stuff. This crap should not have been released. And the acting was horrible also. No one can compare with George Romero and putting his name on the cover to give this waste of money credibility is a crime. Don't rent it. Don't watch it for free. Run as far away from it as possible. I know that a lot of ZOMBIE movies are not very good, But this one is the king of BAD ZOMBIE FILMS. See "Land Of the Dead" or "Undead". These are two new Zombie flicks worth your hard earned money.

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