{"id":29194,"date":"2018-10-09T02:12:59","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T06:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=29194"},"modified":"2018-10-09T02:14:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T06:14:34","slug":"feral-2018-blu-ray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/09\/feral-2018-blu-ray\/","title":{"rendered":"Feral (2018) [Blu-Ray]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Mark H. Young\u2019s horror thriller \u201cFeral\u201d feels like 2010\u2019s \u201cPrimal\u201d and 2003\u2019s \u201cCabin Fever\u201d reworked in to a goofy zombie melodrama about a lot of pretty people arguing over \u201cimportant\u201d stuff like relationships, and who\u2019s dating whom before they\u2019re interrupted by zombies. \u201cFeral\u201d could have been a very claustrophobic and weird little cabin in the woods gem, but it\u2019s so mucked up with the twenty minutes of exposition and drama that goes absolutely nowhere. Seriously none of the conflicts actually take any real toll once the narrative gets moving, and it\u2019s a shame.<\/p>\n

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In \u201cFeral,\u201d three young couples straight out of college go camping for the weekend, and after hours of hiking decide to hunker down in the middle of the woods. While camping out, one of the friends is viciously mauled by an anthropomorphic monster that devours his guts. As the group struggles to comprehend what\u2019s happened, the other friends fall prey to the monster\u2019s attacks. After they flee to a local deserted cabin (there\u2019s one in every forest don\u2019 cha know?), they meet a mysterious man who holds the answer to their questions. All the while group leader Alice struggles to keep her friends safe, all of whom are becoming monsters after being bitten or attacked.<\/p>\n

\u201cFeral\u201d has a decent cast it just shits the bed by doing nothing with any of them. Folks like Olivia Luccardi (Luccardi is adorable), Scout Taylor Compton, and Lew Temple always have such great screen presence, but here they\u2019re reduced to one note characters that make some really stupid decisions. How is it that Compton\u2019s character can fire a rifle with sheer precision, but doesn\u2019t have an inch of common sense? No one here does anything remotely sensible, whether it\u2019s quarantining the sick, to maybe sitting down with the film\u2019s resident nut job to find out what\u2019s going on, etc. Also, if this monster is lurking around in the woods, are there other victims? Are these things zombies, rabid beasts, or something more?<\/p>\n

Why do they crave human flesh one moment, and the next just seem intent on spreading their infection? Are they cognizant of others or are they like some advanced form of a zombie? Most of \u201cFeral\u201d is based heavily on the group hiding in a cabin and fending off the monsters outside, so the first twenty minutes feel like tacked on exposition for the sake of getting from point A to point B. They\u2019re all so confused about their romances, main character Alice\u2019s brother is pissed she\u2019s in a lesbian relationship, for some reason, blah blah, again once it gets to the blood and scares, it has no relevance. \u201cFeral\u201d is a sub-par survival horror film through and through. It probably won\u2019t even make a good time killer, when all is said and done. I am digging on Olivia Luccardi, though. The Blu-Ray from Shout! factory comes only with the original trailer for \u201cFeral.\u201d<\/p>\n