10 Actors Most Comfortable Playing The Grotesque

Often overlooked Australian psychological thriller, Feed, is a film devoted to the disgusting. Based around a cat and mouse chase between an Australian Interpol officer and an American psychopath who murdered his girlfriend victims by overfeeding them.

The murderer, Michael, played by Alex O’Loughlin is absolute gaga throughout the film, and O’Loughlin is so convincing as a feeder. While several parts of the movie generate some laughs, especially Michael’s insistence that his victims cry, ‘feed me, I’m weak,’ the humour just a coping mechanism for such a despicable cry.

In the movie’s conclusion, a captured Michael has been bound to a chair while the cop, played by Patrick Thompson, taunts him with food. When the camera pans to O’Loughlin, he has undergone a total body transformation and is skeletal as he is forced to repeat the lines he used on his own former victims.

Alex O’Loughlin’s head was put in a composite shot with the body of thinnest man the producer, Brett Leonard, could find. In the interview, O’Loughlin noted how the movie was intended as a satire about America and the growing rate of consumerism.