Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Extreme
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- Graphic
- disturbing
- paranoid
- transgressive
- late night horror viewing
- disturbing thriller marathon
What critics said
Critics broadly regarded the film as a provocative but uneven and excessively lurid serial-killer thriller.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Michael displays photographs of women to Internet subscribers, making digital spectatorship central to the investigation.
The killer frames forced feeding as liberation from cultural thinness while using women’s bodies as instruments of control.
The plot foregrounds gross weights, forced feeding, torture, obesity, and grotesque physical domination.
Phillip Jackson’s personal demons and Michael Metszencalmpf’s sociopathy make their cat-and-mouse relationship psychologically reciprocal.
Films like Feed, and why
Se7en
shared serial-killer investigation, psychological menace, and grim crime-thriller atmosphere
The Silence of the Lambs
shared cat-and-mouse pursuit of a sociopathic killer with disturbing violence and moral unease
The Untouchables
shared transgressive body horror, obsession with corporeality, and confrontational psychological intensity
Movie Details
- Director
- Brett Leonard
- Release Date
- 2005-05-11
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Rating
- 5.6 / 10 (145)
Cast
- Alex O'Loughlin
- Patrick Thompson
- Gabby Millgate
- Jack Thompson
- Matthew Le Nevez
- David Field
- Rose Ashton
- David Will No
- Sherly Sulaiman
- Marika Aubrey
Where to watch in United States
- Rent
- Amazon Video
- Buy
- Amazon Video
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is Feed about?
- An emotionally haunted Australian investigator enters a grotesque online cat-and-mouse game with a killer who disguises coercion as liberation from beauty standards.
- What is Feed like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Feed as brisk, its intensity as extreme and its storytelling as layered.
- Is Feed violent?
- Yes. Ember rates the violence in Feed as graphic.
- What did critics think of Feed?
- Critics broadly regarded the film as a provocative but uneven and excessively lurid serial-killer thriller.
- Which films are like Feed?
- Films with a similar feel include Se7en, The Silence of the Lambs, and The Untouchables.
- How long is Feed?
- Feed runs 97 minutes.
- Where can I watch Feed?
- In United States, Feed is available to rent or buy from Amazon Video.
