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Eat – 2 out of 5

With a title like Eat, you’re not really given much to go on with what this feature could be about.  Is it about an eating disorder?  Is it a thriller about cannibals?  Is it a romantic comedy that centers around two people having a meet-cute at a pie eating contest?  Actually, that last one sounds fantastic and I think I have a script I have to write.  Alright, let’s hurry up and get through this review so I can write a movie.  “In this contest, first prize is love.”  Dammit, this thing writes itself!

Sorry ladies, I'm going to have to cast from the Midwest for my pie eating
contest film.

Novella McClure (Meggie Maddock) is a struggling actress despite having quite possibly one of the coolest names imaginable.  No one will hire or cast her and she’s on the verge of being evicted from her place.  Things can’t get any worse and she isn’t handling the stress very well.  What begins as a simple bad habit of chewing on her fingernails grows exponentially worse as she starts to eat her own flesh.  

Ew, gross.  Why would you eat the foot flesh?  That's the toughest stuff.
Eat something a little more tender like from your butt or forearm.

Eat has an interesting idea that has some amazing potential to not only provide some disturbing images of a woman eating her own skin but also to provide some commentary while utilizing some intense and deep themes.  This film could dig into how this young woman is considered too old and washed up to be a viable actress and explore the standards we have for women in the media.  The film could also provide a tantalizing metaphor for the mismanagement of stress.  This movie could do a lot of things…instead, it just farted out a story of a girl who is having a hard time with her life and never really explores the eating flesh portion of the plot before it quickly wraps up the tale in a way that never felt organic and came about way too quickly.

Um, you got a little around your mouth there.

The first thing that struck me about Eat is the fact it is a low budget film.  There’s no recognizable names and the technical aspects—like lighting, fake blood, shot composition, editing and music—are all very by-the-numbers, basic stuff that doesn’t command any real attention.  However, none of this is notably bad either.  The performances aren’t fantastic but they don’t play like the director brought in the pizza delivery guy who just so happened to show up on set.  Additionally, even though the technical elements are pretty unimaginative, they are still functional.  So, at a base level, the film works better than most low-budget horror and thriller films (which there is a ridiculous amount of).  What made Eat fail for me was that it did not have a story that really felt like it was exploring anything nor was it trying to tell a compelling narrative.

This is the flesh eating equivalent of someone going to a buffet and stuffing your
face and feeling the regret afterwards.

 

What really held me back with this one is the fact the story never feels like it wants to explore or even dive into Novella’s flesh eating problem.  This plot element felt like an afterthought.  What I watched, instead, was a struggling woman who is just bouncing from uncomfortable audition to going out to the bar with her bestie Candice (Ali Francis) and being hit on by creepy dudes.  After this happens, we’re treated to a moment of the grotesque as we see Novella fantasize and then act out her desire to eat her own skin.  The movie is pretty much this on repeat and the only times her skin eating is explored is when she is sent to the hospital and has to meet with a psychiatrist because it is believed she was trying to kill herself.  This all feels fine and it should play into Novella’s condition but the fact her disorder is never truly explored and just kinda just exists rather than being a major point of conflict in the story made this whole ordeal boring and unengaging.

It's nice to see a young Sandra Bernhard playing the best friend.

Exploration (or, more accurately, a lack there of) is the major crux of this film.  While it’s okay to have a little mystery as to why exactly Novella makes the jump from nervously biting her fingernails to the stress somehow just being ripe enough where eating your flesh seems like the next logical step, never actually exploring the details that drove her to this or even having it feel like it was a key part of the story is what killed the movie for me.  Sadly, this isn’t the only element of the film that feels this way as there’s a sequence in the film where Novella and her friend Candice are out on the town having drinks when two douche bags decide to drug them.  While in a parking structure, the men make it clear they are going to rape them but then Candice pulls a gun and shoots them both in the dicks.  This is crazy and it really should play into Novella’s never ending and ever-growing list of anxieties but moments after it happens, the story treats it like it’s no big thing and it’s nearly forgotten about.  Cops never are called, the fear and post-traumatic stress of the event is never detailed and the whole ordeal is barely discussed.  In fact, the only time it is mentioned is when Novella is out on a date with her psychiatrist (which isn’t very ethical on the doctor’s part) and she casually mentions it (like, crazy casual) over some tacos. 

"I can't believe they charge extra for guac.  Anyway, so I was involved in a murder
by some dudes who tried to rape me.  I am loving these tacos."

I couldn’t believe I just saw this.  This ordeal should have been a huge factor for the skin eating and it only is a factor momentarily.  After that, it’s pretty much nothing and the film moves on towards its conclusion and then decides to treat an accusation that her new boyfriend is possibly a scumbag with more weight and more urgency than the fact that she was nearly raped and is an accessory to man-slaughter.  Suspension of disbelief is a requirement with all films but this wasn’t such a thing.  This was just a complete loss of focus from a storytelling perspective.

The dudes deserved this but you would have thought this would have been
a huge moment that had a lasting impact on the story.

Eat, despite its budget and how sterile its presentation and technical elements appear, had a lot of potential to make a tense story about a women overwhelmed and losing herself into a dangerous compulsion.  However, with a weak script that seems to actively avoid exploring its own established themes and elements and even forgets that the main character is suffering from this disorder, the film results in a very boring movie that even some moments of gore (that really didn’t look that spectacular to begin with) can’t even save it and make it engaging.         

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