Project Greenlight is a reality tv series that follows the making of a movie from script to production. I got hooked watching when it jumped from HBO to Bravo in 2005 for its third season. Basic premise: Ben Affleck and Matt Damon pluck a screenwriter and a director from amateur obscurity. They give them a minuscule budget to make a movie. Dysfunctional comedy ensues.

Feast, season three’s attempt at a horror/comedy hybrid, was just released direct-to-DVD. The comedy-horror thing is difficult to pull off intentionally. There’s plenty of movies that want to be Evil Dead, and almost all of them are terrible.

Feast is pretty terrible.

It’s set entirely in a desert bar, with a cast of cliché characters fending off gory attacks from a family of furry, alien-like beasts. Despite some funny moments from Henry Rollins and Judah Friedlander, the movie comes off sort of like a bad improv comedy scene that just goes on… and on… and on… and on… never funny, and sometimes painful to watch.

There is a fair amount of sex — but mainly between the slimy creatures and unwilling corpses. Yeah — it’s as gross as it sounds.

The director was selected because he was the weirdest person in the contest. His bizarre personality was the bulk of the tv show’s storyline. But surprisingly he did a great job with the technical production of the movie. It was very polished for a first-time production.