Joe Maggio’s BITTER FEAST is one we’ve been yapping about for over a year; the film, from Dark Sky Films and MPI Media Group and producer Larry Fessenden (the crew behind THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL and the upcoming STAKELAND), is hitting DVD and Video on Demand on JANUARY 4th, 2011. If you’ve always wanted to see a douchebag food critic tortured, you’re going to get your chance. (And who hasn’t wanted to?)
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.
Included on the DVD will be:
· Feature-length commentary with writer-director Joe Maggio along with producers Larry Fessenden, Peter Phok, Brent Kunkle, and sound designer Graham Reznick.
· Making Bitter Feast (making of)
· Joe Maggio Interviews Mario Batali
· Deleted Scene & Alternate Ending
· Teaser
· Trailer
· Feast Portraits
Pre-order the DVD right HERE.
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