Feed (2005 film)
Feed is a 2005 Australian crime-horror film[1] directed by Brett Leonard. The plot involves a police investigation of non-consensual feederism. The film explores themes of love, dominance and submission. The case within the film bears many similarities to that of Armin Meiwes, the man known as the "Rotenburg Cannibal".
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| Directed by | Brett Leonard |
| Produced by | Melissa Beauford |
| Written by | Kieran Galvin Alex O'Loughlin Patrick Thompson |
| Starring | Alex O'Loughlin Patrick Thompson Gabby Millgate Jack Thompson |
| Music by | Gregg Leonard Geoff Michael |
| Cinematography | Steve Arnold |
| Edited by | Mark Bennett |
Production company | Honour Bright Films Becker Films International |
| Distributed by | Force Entertainment (AUS) TLA Releasing (US) |
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Running time | 101 minutes |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English German |
Plot
Australian cop Phillip (Patrick Thompson) works as a cybercrime investigator for Interpol. Phillip finds himself shaken after investigating a case in Hamburg, Germany, in which a man consents to have his penis cut off and eaten by his lover. Phillip's own relationship is troubled due to his frequent travel and difficulties with romantic intimacy, and he finds himself unable to respond positively to his beautiful girlfriend's sexual overtures. The two have rough sex that gets out of hand, and she leaves him after writing "pig" on his chest with lipstick.
Meanwhile, Phillip has been working with his partner, Nigel (Matthew Le Nevez), to investigate a fetish website that features morbidly obese women being held captive and fed fattening food. The website's intricate encryption suggests that the webmaster is concealing a deeper perversion, and, despite the objections of his superiors, Phillip travels to Toledo, Ohio, to investigate the webmaster and determine the whereabouts of "Lucy", a former site favorite. In Ohio, the site's sadistic webmaster, Michael Carter (Alex O'Loughlin), holds Deidre (Gabby Millgate) captive in a ramshackle cottage in the woods. After questioning a local priest, Michael's adoptive sister, and his thin, attractive wife, Phillip manages to track Michael to the cottage, where the latter is preparing to feed Deidre a thick slurry of eggs and weight gain powder. Phillip learns that Michael developed a sexual fascination with obese women due to his troubled relationship with his overweight, immobile mother, who died when he was a child. He also uncovers the twist in Michael's fetish website: not only are paying site members able to watch him feed and fornicate with obese women, but they can place bets on when each woman will die, using posted statistics on their body proportions, blood pressure, and other medical indicators.
In the cottage, Phillip finds Lucy's decaying remains and then confronts Michael; Michael reveals that he killed his mother and fed Lucy until she died. The slurry-like preparation he was attempting to feed Deidre through a tube contains some of the fat he had carved from Lucy's body. After a struggle, Phillip shoots Deidre, who maintains her love for Michael even as Philip tells her about his deceptions, and two shots can be heard off screen.
The final scene reveals Phillip living in suburban bliss with Michael's overweight adoptive sister. He takes some sandwiches she has packed for him and drives to the cottage in the woods, where he eats them with gusto, pausing to tantalize Michael, who is in a wheelchair, with one. Michael, starving and emaciated, begs Phillip to, "feed [him]."
Cast
- Alex O'Loughlin as Michael Carter
- Patrick Thompson as Phillip Jackson
- Gabby Millgate as Deidre
- Jack Thompson as Richard
- Rose Ashton as Abbey
- Matthew Le Nevez as Nigel
- David Field as Father Turner
Reception
Feed currently holds a 57% 'rotten' rating on the review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 7 reviews, with an average score of 5.36/10.[2]