10 Horror Movie Creature Features That Broke All The Rules
4. Feast
It doesn’t get much more rule breaking than messily offing the film's self-described hero and obvious leading man a few seconds after he’s introduced, does it?
Feast was the feature film project which the third season of Good Will Hunting star Matt Damon's Project Greenlight, a reality TV series which pitted potential filmmakers against one another to fight for production resources, centred around.
The 2005 horror comedy really pulls no punches, going so far as to introduce Grey's Anatomy star Eric Dane in the role of "Hero", as a handy onscreen graphic informs viewers, and have him utter the line "I'm the guy that's gonna save your ass" before immediately being beheaded by the monstrous clawed antagonists of the film.
It's a hilariously subversive start to proceedings which ensures viewers know this film will be disregarding any genre rulebook and operating entirely on its own twisted blackly comic logic from hereon out. It's just a shame poor McSteamy needed to lose his head for that point to become clear.