You can pick your friends, but you can’t pick your family. When Halloween approaches, a family descends into disastrous disarray as they try to navigate their mother’s newfound madness and the list of crazy characters they call friends. A Halloween Feast is held, where all of their secrets come to light in a big bloody mess.
Former ballerina Angela descends into madness as her family tries to cope. After an infamous dinner, their lives spiral into unexpected chaos. All skeletons come out at a Halloween party.
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Promoted as a dark comedy, A Halloween Feast gives just that. Mainly following adult daughter Karen (Julia Coulter), the family is recovering from their mother’s (“Angela,” played by Lynn Lowry) recent unprompted assault on their father. As she feigns going to therapy — instead becoming her doctor’s dominatrix — and the family goes through their own troubles with drugs, work, and relationships, everything comes to a head when Angela is allowed back into the family home. Let’s just say that a bunch of dead bodies may be the least of their worries.
A Halloween Feast is all parts crazy and chaotic with Lynn Lowry completely stealing the show. She plays a woman off her rocker to a tee, making light of her gruesome crimes like it was nothing. But really, all of the characters have something about them that both make us empathize but also shake our heads. Karen is caught up in an existential crisis that goes even more horribly wrong when she finds out who her new date actually is. Her brother Stuart is horny and just over his mom’s shit. Husband Richard defies logic when he accepts Angela back home after cutting his finger off, and gets more than he bargains for at the end. Everyone has their issues that either erupt into hilarity or end in bloodshed.
Speaking of bloodshed, A Halloween Feast isn’t all jokes. The movie features plenty of gore and gags to keep that horror mind satisfied. Looking for separated limbs? Gouged-out eyes? How about a head on a serving platter with all the trimmings? A Halloween Feast has got it all. The only thing I wish there was more of was Halloween; there is a countdown and some costumes and yard decor, but otherwise it could have been any other family dinner… well, maybe not any normal family dinner, at least.
A Halloween Feast is sure to make you feel better about your own family drama when you see the wild revelations unfold on screen. It has funny parts. It brings that horror element. It’s a fun ride in a crazy world.
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