With Halloween just around the corner, a list of new Horror films are popping here, there, and everywhere. In fact, a little film called A Halloween Feast is set for wide release very soon. Co-written by Guile Branco and Arthur McClen, this interesting new feature was first unveiled at the 2024’s Brazilian film festival Fantaspoa. A great spot to get exposure, it was then nabbed by Breaking Glass Pictures for a theatrical screening at the Lumiere Music Hall in Los Angeles on August 9th, leading up to the streaming premiere set for September 10th.
Also directed by Guile Branco, A Halloween Feast interplays harrowing scenes of horror with comic relief that holds you to your seat like the silky strands of a spider web. A Horror Comedy that gets it, at the forefront of this bone chilling tale is Horror Queen Lynn Lowry (famously known for classics like 1973’s Crazies and 1975’s Shivers) as Angela Long. A character visibly tailspinning into a downward spiral of insanity, Lowry does an amazing job in her onscreen portrayal. A woman who has begun the transformation from an innocuous housewife to homicidal maniac, Lowry’s performance is fun, yet believable, and you could even argue that the nuance around Angela Long’s persona surpasses the unhinged Annie Wilkes from Stephen King’s Misery.
Truly a spider’s vision of a dysfunctional family, the opening scenes and narrative of A Halloween Feast does a great job of balancing three key elements – Horror, Comedy, and Action. That in mind the Action scenes sprinkled through the film depicted eye-widening demonistic behavior that is juxtaposed with a vibe of nothing is amiss… much like the black and white squares on a checkerboard. Definitely a head scratcher and the root cause for a state of slack-jaw, A Halloween Feast is honestly a sure-fire pick to kick off the spooky season.
Saying a lot, with many independent Horror films being more misses than hits lately, A Halloween Feast is actually a unique take on the Horror genre. From the dialogue exchanges, lighting and music, to everything else mentioned, all of it comes to gather surprisingly well. Above all, the story is a testament to the fact that you never really know the inner workings of an unhinged mind; especially when triggers exacerbate the mania. Even Horror fans who have been desensitized by the gruesome images that have marched across screen for so many decades now will find something to enjoy here. After all, many can relate to dysfunctional family dynamics, and with that, easily envision one of the ‘members’ going off the deep end. Simply well-done and enjoyable, A Halloween Feast is a must seem with Cryptic Rock giving it 5 out of 5.
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