Welsh-language horror Gwledd (The Feast) doesn’t just find the grotesque in everyday items and actions – it absolutely revels in it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 3, 2024

a slow burning nightmare of extreme uneasiness with a satisfying, bloody finale.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 15, 2024

Reaching the main course of The Feast requires patience.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jul 23, 2023

Jones’ directorial debut is a gore-filled horror fest that is centred around the environmental destruction of nature and family that deals with the consequences of it all, and it is one of the most exciting horror movies of the year.

| Jul 21, 2023

The Feast communicates its rage with panache and passion, all held together by Elwy's magnificently unnerving eye-catcher of a performance.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 22, 2022

There are several moments in the film that ingrain themselves in your head so effectively that you might not be able to eat properly the next day.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 22, 2022

With an exploration of the personal responsibility one has to roots, space and the negotiations we all undergo to make space in the world, this horror has a lot to chew over.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 10, 2022

The Feast emphasizes its eerie atmosphere over engaging storytelling, often alienating its audience as a result.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 1, 2022

...offers a feast for the eyes while accommodating more than one interpretation. For this is all at once environmental fable, anti-colonialist allegory, and Hanekean portrait of a family undone by its own errant appetites and all-consuming greed.

| Aug 25, 2022

The movie is a pressure cooker cranked to the point of blowing up — but it's all signposted so pedantically that you grow rather restless with the weak social satire playing while you wait.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 22, 2022

It stands out for the feverish momentum of its nastiness, its savage desire to unsettle and dismember, coolly sheathed, like Cadi’s nature, for much of its length.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 22, 2022

It avoids jump scares in favour of a long, slow build of tension – so slow that at times the characters appear to be in the grip of a kind of paralysis – that pays off with an explosively grisly final act.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 21, 2022

It is beautifully shot and scored, and the final course should satisfy gore hounds. But their appetites may wane with director Lee Haven Jones's stodgy fare.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 20, 2022

A half-baked misfire.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 20, 2022

Echoes of the best Michael Haneke movies abound as preparations for a swank dinner party... are overlaid by a sickening sense of dread.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 19, 2022

Raw and uncompromising, The Feast is for horror fans who like their stories pitch black and unafraid to take the chills to the next level.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 19, 2022

Jones skilfully cranks up the creepiness a notch at a time with an ominous soundtrack and stylish lighting, until the dial is way past 11 and into grand guignol territory by the end.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 17, 2022

As the tastefully arty bloodletting intensifies, so does the tedium, with a last-minute addition of a folk-tinged mythology unable to save this undercooked mess.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 16, 2022

Anxieties over the land, family, tradition, mythology and values seep slowly through the film; these are familiar in many respects but also, somehow, inextricably Welsh. It's a visually rich, beguiling watch.

| Aug 16, 2022

The Feast is a solid, if disappointing, film, nicely shot and crafted but without the muscle behind it to really make it memorable or for it’s message to be properly effective.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 15, 2022