Any bets on how long it takes for some advocacy group or another to file a protest against this one?
The latest flick from Brett Leonard - he of Virtuosity and Lawnmower Man fame - is called Feed, and I'll just let the official synopsis speak for itself:
"Phillip is a hotshot cyber crime investigator - one day, while policing the underbelly of the internet, amidst the usual porn and pedophiles, he finds a suspicious website of "feeders" and "gainers" - the weird world of fat erotica, a sexual subculture where fat admiring men ("feeders") seek out obese women ("gainers"). It seems the last "gainer" mysteriously disappeared after hitting 600 pounds. Phillip tracks down the site to Toledo, Ohio in the US. Phillip goes to Ohio determined to prove himself despite the objections of his superior and gets fired. Pushed over the edge and alone, and as the truly monstrous nature of what the Feeder is doing emerges, Phillip becomes an avenger beyond the call of duty - and sanity."
Done right this could actually have a good amount of depth to it ... they're certainly playing up the social criticism with the poster. Click here for a larger version of that. Nice.
Nice poster. Not sure about the plot.
This film looks perfect to use as part of my dissertation study, but i cant find it anywhere, it was released in sheffield uk but quickly taken off again- i need to get my hands on it, any ideas?!!!
FEED will be available July 25 from TLA Releasing:
http://www.tlareleasing.com/details/product_details.cfm?id=229427
FEED ended up winning the audience favorite award at San Francisco's Holehead. I had avoided watching it because I thought it was going to gross me out too much, but, surprisingly, I was swept right up in this perverse fantasy. I'm hoping to interview Brett Leonard.