HOME INVASION Pt 33: The Feast (2021) & Men (2022)
The Evolution of Horror
Mike Muncer
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🗓️ 1 December 2023
⏱️ 108 minutes
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This week Mike is joined by James Rendell to discuss the crossover between Home Invasion and Folk Horror with two weird and wonderful British horror movies from the last couple of years: Welsh dinner party horror THE FEAST and Alex Garland's MEN.
Music by Jack Whitney.
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| 0:00.0 | The The Ever since the 1970s with hit films like Straw Dogs and The Shout, British Home Invasion |
| 0:31.9 | has had a distinctly different vibe to American Home Invasion |
| 0:36.2 | and very often tends to cross over with folk horror. In British film often the homes are part of something bigger and more menacing, a village or community that's harboring a dark secret or a dark history. |
| 0:51.0 | In 2021, Director Le Haven Jones made The Feast, a Welsh language horror movie about a |
| 0:57.5 | wealthy family's home being invaded by someone with dark, vengeful intentions. The film felt current with its |
| 1:06.2 | social satire and eat the rich themes, but also somewhat classic with its roots in |
| 1:12.1 | Welsh folklore. A year later British writer |
| 1:18.4 | director Alex Garland made men. A strange otherworldly film about a woman escaping her past traumas and staying |
| 1:28.9 | in an Airbnb in a remote English village, only to find her safe space invaded by violent predatory men. |
| 1:37.0 | Similarly, this film worked perfectly as a very current post-Me2 social commentary |
| 1:48.0 | whilst also feeling akin to classic terrifying British folk horror. |
| 1:54.1 | Why are you doing? |
| 1:58.1 | Why are you doing this? |
| 2:08.0 | Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of home invasion and we discuss Lee Haven Jones The Feast and Alex Garland's men. |
| 2:13.4 | Scrum. Scrumpte, |
| 2:15.0 | Scrumping, |
| 2:20.0 | eh? No, no, no, no, mustn't do that. |
| 2:26.4 | Forbidden fruit. |
| 2:27.4 | Welcome back to the evolution of horror. My name is Mike Muncer and as ever I am your host. In this podcast we explore and |
| 2:34.4 | dissect the history and the evolution of the horror genre one sub-genre at a time. |
| 2:39.6 | We are currently in our ninth season exploring the evolution of home invasion |
| 2:44.4 | and we're very nearly at the end. We're on part 33 and we're going to be covering two movies |
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