DARK FEED is yet ANOTHER film set in an abandoned old psychiatric hospital with a disturbing past. The characters of the storyline are a group of film-makers shooting a low budget horror flick (hooray for self-referencing) who soon find themselves menaced by something much more real and disturbing. As the tagline went...who will survive and what will be left of them?The answer is not a lot, not that you'll care as this is strictly ordinary horror fare for the masses. DARK FEED is the kind of film that low budget filmmakers love to make, because it doesn't take a whole lot of effort or imagination or indeed talent on the part of the crew. The acting here is resolutely poor, the special effects limited, and the plotting almost non-existent.What we're left with are a handful of loosely connected scare and kill scenes, some of which are pretty gory by genre standards. In the film's favour, it does manage to summon up a couple of relatively intense and frightening scenes, like the hands coming out of the wall, but these tend to be loss in a jumble of the merely ordinary.

Well, if you've seen the trailer you won't find any spoilers here, because the whole plot is not more than that. But I checked the spoiler part anyway, just to be sure.Despite most of the reviews here, I think the acting's not bad at all. There are just way too many characters. Instead of having the time to get to know a few of them, you just see how one by one, everybody vanishes or loses it or whatever they do in the dark. Which is basically the main problem of this film: too many characters in too many one-person scenes where something bad happens. It simply gets boring after the fifth "incident" and you just don't care anymore.Apart from that, there's no real story or logic behind the whole thing. That really is a problem, because there would be enough time to build some conspiracy-like storyline. Instead, the movie is filled with the already mentioned boring parts. There's even a character who's described as "our conspiracy guy". But you only get a halfhearted story about the asylum and something in the water. Wow. The plot described in a maximum of two sentences. I call that potential thrown out of the asylum-window.But in the end I gave it 4 points out of 10 because it has some cool and amusing, sometimes funny, creepy scenes. The atmosphere is great and when you are really bored you can give this movie a try. Seen worse.

...as in the lighting, but all it feeds an audience is boredom, frustration--mostly in the form of numerous lovely women, none of whom reveal a significant inch of naughty bits, never mind the one who dies taking a shower; unforgivable in a make-work film like this--and did I mention boredom? Yes, I did, and that's what this quickie is all about: a few unfulfilled promises and tons of unrelenting boredom. The cast mostly sleepwalks through their paces, the direction is perfunctory at best, and as is always the case in misfires like this one, the script is leaden and uninspired. Who rationally puts up the money for pap like this, and why? Completely dispensable and as good an illustration of Sturgeon's Revelation as any. Do yourself a favor and avoid.

I am increasingly amazed that projects like "Dark Fall" and the people responsible for them somehow manage to get investors, and ultimately a distro house like Lionsgate to put it out.This HAS to be a tax-write off scam, a "Spring Time For Hitler" scenario where the joke's on us, the viewers, and the IRS. No one viewing the rushes, or reading the script could not have missed the fact that this was SciFy Channel quality, low-rent drivel. Ergo, it had to be planned that way so investors could declare a loss on their income for 2012, thus taking the IRS bite and rendering it insignificant.Everybody gets a REFUND!......a bunch of 20-somethings get a summer project, get stoned, drunk, have sex, all on the investors' dime, which will inevitably come right back to the investors' pockets. Also, how many times has that run-down hospital been used in films lately?