Dark Feed (2013)

Busty Rebecca Whitehurst provides some sex appeal for Dark Feed (2013).

At a glance:

Havin sold their respectable script The Ward (2010), Rasmussen brothers Michael and Shawn have now successfully made their directorial debut with R-rated horror Dark Feed (2013). Warnin: it's an Asylum movie. Lionsgate's synopsis reads: When a film crew moves into an abandoned psychiatric hospital with a shadowy past to shoot a low budget horror film, they get more than they bargained for. The late nights and lack of sleep begin to take a toll, and the longer this crew works, the more the leaky, wet building seems to be coming back to life, feeding off its new inhabitants. As the shoot wears on, members of the crew exhibit increasingly strange behavior leaving those still sane realizing they need to get out of this place before they too succumb to the building's infectious hold, the only problem, the old hospital is not ready to let them go.

Bad news on the doorstep:

Victoria Nugent as Beth

While it has an above average soundtrack and pacy enough editin throughout, things start to look very, very basic after the Evalena Marie prologue - and it's also annoyin that she completely disappears thereafter with no further mention. All the characters don't impress and the lines are pedestrian. I think the problem is perhaps how the characters do not take on a certain dramatic heft when the supernatural sets in. There are no set piece kills to remember either.

Perennial wonderment:

Rob Getz of horrornews.net writes: "Seriously, how many times can we watch an innocent follow a peculiar noise to a poorly lit hall, calling out hopefully as though they possess not one molecule of foresight or intuition? It didn’t have to be this way."

Reminds me of:

Grave Encounters (2011) and every other cheap horror flick before it that is set in a psychiatric hospital or mental asylum.

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Not impressed. However, I hope the Rasmussens will get more backers next time and be able to make a better indie movie. For more information check out its official website and its Facebook page.★★

Jessica Lauren Napier as Jessica and Michael Scott Allen as Darrell

Rebecca Whitehurst as Rachel and Michael Reed as Jack.

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