A struggling, long out-of-work actress who is facing eviction and an empty fridge, counters the woes of surviving in Tinsel Town by gradually taking bigger and bigger bites out of parts of her body. Starting with the skin around her fingernail which leads to the wrist, then toes... All the while, she's put on suicide watch, barely avoids a parking garage rape and starts dating her shrink who may not be all he seems...
This struck me as some kind of MTV remake of "In My Skin". The scenes of her chomping down on her flesh looked pretty good as far as FX go, but aside from the gooey gore, there was just way too much 'filler'. At points it felt like the movie was starting to lose track of the self-consumption angle, of which, is never really delved into enough or was made to matter all that much. The movie is too 'light' in tone to make its subject matter 'disturbing' or its lead character and her self-destructive behavior seem impacting when all is said and done. On top of that, the writing is horrible. The dialog is downright cringe-inducing and there's way too much of it. Again, not a terrible flick, however, had "Eat" gone a bit 'darker' and cut down on the lulls in gore (which was well done...) I think I could've gotten into this film more.
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