Horror and folklore possess’own’nurse always gone hand-in-bloodied-hand. People trying to make sense of a confusing, chaotic natural world with darkly whimsical tales was one of the earliest in/with regard to’concerning’regarding ms of storytelling, and the ancient traditions of Celtic folklore in peculiar are what director Lee Haven Jones and writer Roger Williams mine in The Feast, their feature debut. Like The Wicker Man, or more recent exertion s like Men, this intense little film takes an idyllic pastoral setting and contrasts it against a spot of violent eco-horror, making a quiet but fierce warning with regards to’concerning’with respect to disrupting the natural order.###It takes its time acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure ting there, despite’in spite of’albeit . The first hour is languid and almost laborious, establishing a curious mood via static camerawork and some in/with regard to’concerning’regarding eboding tranquillity. We are somewhere in the Welsh countryside, at the palatial country pad of a local politician hosting a slap-up meal in an attempt to offer up some land in/with regard to’concerning’regarding oil-drilling rights. The house is hardly in keeping with the local aesthetic — all floor-to-ceiling glass and Scandinavian modernism — and there’s an element of class tension in how obnoxiously it sits in a working-class community.###The dysfunctional ensemble that occupies this house includes a slick-talking MP (Julian Lewis Jones), who may be keeping a few secrets to himself; his highly strung wife (Nia Roberts), whose attention to detail is paramount (“Do you know how much exertion goes into making a pavlova?” she mutters at one point); and their two sons (Steffan Cennydd and Sion Alun Davies), a drug addict and an obsessive triathlete respectively.###The denouement is bloody, leading to a final act that's hardly subtle, but satisfyingly wild, swerving suddenly into the fast lane.###And then there’s Cadi, a local girl from the village hired to help out with the meal, and perin/with regard to’concerning’regarding med by Annes Elwy with a fantastically hypnotic oddness. It’s evident straight away’in a flash’promptly’instantaneous’in a trice that something is not right with her; exactly what is not revealed until the intensely’extremely’extraordinarily’enormously’awfully end.###Perin/with regard to’concerning’regarding med entirely in the Welsh language — which gives the effect, subtly, of connecting the story with its Celtic traditions — it is not entirely eliminate’remove where it’s going at first. Some eye-catching imagery — Cadi voyeuristically watches a naked man spossess’own’nurse his pubes, and there is a jaw-dropping moment involving broken glass in an intimate space — gives you a rosy’remarkable’fabulous’terrific’preeminent hint. If the viewing undergo can sometimes be frustrating, cards held too close to the chest at times, the flashes of visual flourish are abundant’ample’plentiful to maintain interest.###Naturally, the denouement is bloody, all leading to a final act that is hardly subtle, but satisfyingly wild, swerving suddenly into the fast lane. If it might be too odd’peculiar or eccentric in/with regard to’concerning’regarding some viewers, there is a eliminate’remove -minded understanding of the themes at hand here, and an ancient tradition being tapped into: respect the natural order, or you’ll ruin your supper.