Dark Sky Films and MPI Media Group will serve up Joe Maggio’s BITTER FEAST on DVD on January 4th. This news isn’t hot off the presses, but the brand new DVD cover art can be seen below. This disc will run for a suggest retail price of $24.98 and contain the following special features:
– Commentary with writer-director Joe Maggio, sound designer Graham Reznick and producers Larry Fessenden, Peter Phok, and Brent Kunkle
– Making Bitter Feast
– Joe Maggio interviews Mario Batali
– Deleted scenes and alternate ending
– Trailers
– Photo gallery
The film stars James LeGros (PHANTASM 2), Josh Leonard (THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT), Larry Fessenden (I SELL THE DEAD), and features a cameo from chef Mario Batali. Here’s the plot, with which we film bloggers can sympathize:
Notorious and influential food blogger J.T. Franks (Joshua Leonard) writes a particularly vicious review that doesn’t sit well at all with its subject, Peter Grey (James LeGros), a chef whose career is already on a down slide and may not survive this latest blow.
So the temperamental, egotistical chef concocts an elaborate and deadly revenge scheme. Grey kidnaps Franks and chains him in a remote cabin in the woods, where he forces him to prepare deceptively simple dishes – from eggs over easy to medium-rare steak – then tortures him sadistically for anything less than perfection. A tense thrill-ride prepared with wicked wit and culinary flare, BITTER FEAST is an exploration of the creative impulse gone tragically and ferociously awry.
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