An entertaining bloodbath that's just in time for Halloween!

Feast (right), the latest from "Project Greenlight”, is one of the best tongue-in-cheek horror films in recent years. In case you don't know, "Project Greenlight" is a show where amateur directors and screenwriters enter a contest in which the winners get to make their film with a major studio. The entire production becomes a reality TV show, showing the struggles of making a motion picture for the first time.

Moving back to Feast, John Gulager, the director, was pretty much made to look incompetent on "Project Greenlight," but delivers on all fronts in what is essentially his directorial debut. Feast is fast-paced, gore-filled and definitely self-aware which are almost all prerequisites for a horror film these days, but Feast is what Slither hoped to be - a ridiculously fun romp that manages to get even more laughs than scares.

Feast opens in a remote desert bar where a group of misfits drink away their dissatisfaction with the world. Their typical evening is ruined when a blood-covered man busts through the front doors with some monster's decapitated skull in hand, announcing that more hungry creatures were on the way. The disbelief and skepticism quickly leaves the room when they are brutally assaulted, leaving half the cast in a state of dismemberment. The survivors (in the usual horror cliché) must band together to fight the beasts and live through the night.

What sounds like a tired horror plot, essentially is. Don't come into Feast expecting a revolutionary film that advances the genre – it's definitely not that. Feast is just an old-fashioned, bloody good time.

The characters aren't all that original either, but that doesn't make them any less entertaining. There isn't anyone that stands out as the "main character", and I don't really want to talk about any of the characters because it'll spoil most of the surprises. Half the fun in the movie is trying to figure out who's going to survive the next scene and who's going to “get it” next. I will say, however, that the characters actually avoid the usual stupid things that people do in horror movies and actually react, in many ways, like real people would. For instance, there is a girl who, toward the end of the film, makes one of the smartest moves ever seen in a horror film. Trust me; you'll know it when you see it.

The introduction to the characters, however, is phenomenally funny. Every time a new person is shown, the frame freezes and the person's "name" pops up on screen, along with a "fun fact" and his or her "life expectancy". The names are all nicknames like Bozo, Harley Mom, Beer Guy and Hero, and the "fun fact" and "life expectancy" are hilarious. Plus, Jason Mewes (Jay from Kevin Smith's Jersey films) plays himself, which sounds as funny as it is.

The monsters present a little more of a logical problem for the film, but the best strategy is to leave your thinking cap in the other room during this one. The creatures maul, kill and eat their victims in some extraordinary ways, and that's not even factoring in the psychological damage of seeing the beasts go at it. That's right; this movie has monster "lovemaking". That's pretty much the tone of the movie: if it's gross, disgusting and funny in a somewhat juvenile way, Feast has it – and I don't mean that in a bad way.

Overall, Feast is a blast. It's not very smart and it's not very original, but don't let that steer you away from it. Basically, if you enjoy the opera and reading Shakespeare for fun, then Feast might not be your cup 'o tea. But if you like rocking out with your buddies and a case of High Life, then grab your friends, bring the beer and pop in Feast.

Check out the trailer and see if Feast would be something you'd like.