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Feeding Frenzy is a 2010 horror-comedy film directed by Jay Bauman and Mike Stoklasa of RedLetterMedia.The film is a No Budget monster movie filmed in and around the company's native Milwaukee and stars a cast of local actors, with a cameo by Z-movie scream queen Tina Krause. Feeding Frenzy provides examples of. The Ace: Much to Jesse's annoyance, Kyle is tall, handsome, athletic. I will be very sympathetic to Red Letter Media (the creators of this film), because on an outrageously low-budget and un-trained cast, 'Feeding Frenzy' comes off as one of those 'tried but failed.
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Feeding Frenzy is a 2010 horror-comedy film directed by Jay Bauman and Mike Stoklasa of RedLetterMedia. The film is a No Budget monster movie filmed in and around the company's native Milwaukee and stars a cast of local actors, with a cameo by Z-movie scream queen Tina Krause.
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Apr 11, 2011 If Kevin Smith and Sam Raimi got together with six hundred bucks, two high-end digital camcorders and spent two weeks making a horror movie, I have to believe that the end result would be remarkably similar to Feeding Frenzy. Directed by Mike Stoklasa and Jay Bauman, 'Feeding Frenzy' is a tongue-in-cheek homage to the rubber puppet monster movies of the 80's such as 'Critters,' 'Ghoulies,' and all the other films that ripped off 'Gremlins.'
- The Ace: Much to Jesse's annoyance, Kyle is tall, handsome, athletic, intelligent and successful as well as dating his crush.
- Ate His Gun: All three of Mr. Plinkett's sons died by eating the same shotgun. In the end, his reanimated son also kills himself this way after Plinkett dies. Jesse and Christine ask him to at least untie them first, and he asks Jesse to hold his shotgun in his mouth while he does so.
- Bait-and-Switch:
- Christine is menaced by globkins in her car. When Jesse and Carl reach her, they see her motionless legs hanging out of her car door, but when they rush to see what happened, she's reclining in her car seat talking on her phone.
- After Jesse decides to go home instead of save Christine, he pauses on the sidewalk and hesitates, but instead of going back to save Christine, he picks up some litter and throws it away.
- Blatant Lies: Mr. Plinkett claims that the trail of blood running down his aisle and the bloody mess around his table saw are the results of two unrelated accidents involving tomato sauce. Jesse doesn't question it.
- Blind Without Them: Phil loses his glasses while plumbing and is blind enough that he mistakes two globkins for his glasses.
- Body of Bodies: Mr. Plinkett us rebuilding his family using cow meat and spare parts from human victims.
- Call-Back: In the opening scene, Mr. Plinkett tells the prostitute licking his cane, 'Yeah, eat it with your mouth!' Later, when Martin is masturbating to Oprah, he mutters the same thing.
- Chekhov's Gun: The defibrillator is introduced in the first act and used as a weapon in the third.
- Creepy Basement: Mr. Plinkett has a 'private area' in his store's basement where he's up to no good.
- Damsel in Distress: Christine needs saving in the final act.
- A Date with Rosie Palms: Jesse arrives home and sits down next to Martin on the couch, apparently not realizing that Martin is masturbating under a blanket to Oprah. Martin carries out a whole conversation without stopping.
- Dead Star Walking: Tina Krause is the only actor with any name recognition, and she dies in the opening scene.
- Decoy Protagonist: The film begins by following a prostitute to her appointment with Mr. Plinkett, but she does not survive the encounter.
- Dirty Old Man: Mr. Plinkett is an old man in a wheelchair who hires a prostitute and mutters creepy things to her as he makes her lick his cane.
- Disposable Sexworker: The opening scene has Mr. Plinkett kill a prostitute, and a later scene implies that Christine's down-on-her-luck friend who's resorted to sex work has also fallen victim to Plinkett.
- Distracted by the Sexy: In the middle of the crisis, Jesse and Christine wonder where Carl is. The scene cuts to Carl dancing with two sexy ladies at a bar.
- Drop Dead Gorgeous: The opening credits play over an extended sequence of Mr. Plinkett dragging the bikini-clad corpse of Tina Krause.
- Eaten Alive: What the globkins do to their victims.
- Evil Cripple: Mr. Plinkett is a murderer who is confined to a wheelchair.
- Evil Old Folks: In spite of being played by a man in his thirties, Mr. Plinkett is apparently an elderly man whose wife died in 1975, and he's also evil.
- Eye Scream: Phil Davis somehow manages to mistake two globkins for his glasses and holds them up to his eyes, causing the monsters to eat his eyes.
- Everybody's Dead, Dave: Played for comedy in the final act when Christine becomes distraught and cries, 'Everybody's dead! Kyle.. some girl I made out with at a frat party.. this guy..'
- Fanservice:
- Tina Krause does a sexy dance and then licks Mr. Plinkett's cane suggestively.
- Played for comedy when three girls have a pillow fight in their underwear for no particular reason.
- Freeze-Frame Bonus: When Jesse, Christine and Carl make up a list of all the hardware store customers who might be targeted for death, there's a VHS case on the table for Death List.
- Gross-Up Close-Up: The camera gets really close to the globkins as they gnaw on people.
- Hurricane of Puns: Mr. Plinkett shouts a long sequence of puns as he pelts Jesse with various human bones.
- Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Mr. Plinkett empties a revolver at Jesse and Christine in a confined basement while they just stand there and cringe, but doesn't manage to hit either of them. He's got much better aim with thrown objects.
- Just a Flesh Wound: A globkin spends about a minute of screen time gnawing on Jesse's leg, causing bits of gore to drop out, but once he kills it, he never shows any pain when walking.
- Kensington Gore: Jesse cleans up the bright red blood trail left behind on the hardware store floor. Blood splatters everywhere in a few more scenes.
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall: When Mr. Plinkett's minion is tying our heroes up, there's nothing to stop the ones not yet tied up from just running away. Carl asks Jesse, the last in line, 'Hey, why aren't you running away?' Jesse says, 'Oh, yeah!' but by this point the minion starts tying him up as well.
- Let's Split Up, Gang: Jesse, Christine and Carl split up to warn customers of the hardware store that they may be targeted by monsters.
- The Lost Lenore: Mr. Plinkett lost his wife to cancer in 1975. He's trying to resurrect her using his science powers.
- Major Injury Underreaction: Mike Hilton is only embarrassed by having to stuff his mess of entrails back into his torso.
- More Teeth than the Osmond Family: The globkins are just cantaloupe-sized heads with fanged mouths.
- Off with His Head!: Mr. Plinkett is killed when his reanimated wife pulls his head off.
- Organ Theft: Mr. Plinkett's motivation for his murders.
- Overly Long Gag: Christine is faced with an embarrassment of riches when trying to select an Improvised Weapon from a tool rack, to the point that she's paralyzed with indecision. She spends quite a lot of time waffling and second-guessing her selections.
- Playing Gertrude: Rich Evans plays the elderly Mr. Plinkett in spite of obviously being a man in his thirties doing an 'old man voice.' He regularly plays the same role for Red Letter Media web videos.
- Reality Ensues: Played for comedy when three half-naked girls have a pillow fight for obvious Fanservice.. and then are annoyed by having to clean up an unexpected mess of pillow feathers.
- Really Gets Around: Christine apparently goes wild at frat parties. She met and hooked up with Kyle at a frat party and later admits to making out with a girl at a frat party, which was then uploaded to the internet.
- 'The Reason You Suck' Speech: Christine criticizes Jesse several times over the course of the film for being a stupid loser.
- Rescue Romance: Discussed and ultimately played straight. Jesse declares his feelings for Christine (once again) in the third act and says that he'd hoped their common bond of surviving this stressful situation would result in a romance, but Christine sets him straight. In the end, however, Christine does at least consent to have sex with him for saving her.
- Running Gag: Martin's heart condition and Carl's apathy are played for laughs several times.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here!: After receiving one too many lengthy diatribes on how much he sucks from Christine, Jesse decides that he doesn't feel like saving her from the monster and goes home.
- Serial Killer: Mr. Plinkett is initially teased as a simple depraved serial killer, but it's more complicated than that.
- Shout-Out: Jesse and Martin's apartment is filled with tapes and discs of bad, schlocky films, including The Stuff and Baby's Day Out, which is proudly displayed on top of the television.
- Speak in Unison: When Mr. Plinkett's son announces his intention to eat his gun, Jesse and Christine both pipe up in unison, 'Wait!' Instead of trying to convince him to keep living, they just ask him, in unison, to untie them before he kills himself.
- Stopped Caring: Carl's main characterization is that he doesn't care about anything. Even when Christine might be in trouble and he shouts that they have to find her fast, he takes a beer out of the fridge and casually drinks it instead of rushing out the door.
- Sword Cane: Mr. Plinkett's cane has a spring-loaded blade on the end.
- Throwing Your Gun at the Enemy: After utterly failing to hit Jesse or Christine with his revolver, Mr. Plinkett throws the empty gun and hits Jesse in the chest, causing him to yelp in pain.
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Who is Jay Bauman?
Jay “Susan” Bauman was born in 1980, in the United States of America. He is an actor, writer, and director, best known for his work alongside Mike Stoklasa in their production company called RedLetterMedia. They have worked on several mainstream films as well as YouTube shows including “Half in the Bag”.
The Wealth of Jay Bauman
How rich is Jay Bauman? As of mid-2019, sources inform us of a net worth that is over $1 million, earned through success in his various endeavors. Aside from their work as a production company, they also gain a huge amount of income through YouTube and their Patreon account. As he continues his endeavors, it is expected that his wealth will also continue to increase.
Early Life and Career Beginnings
Very little is known about Jay’s life prior to his rise to fame online as he has not shared details about his education, childhood, and family. It is known that he had a passion for film at a young age, and began his career as an independent filmmaker. He didn’t have much success at this point, until he eventually met Mike Stoklasa during a filmmaker’s forum held in 2001.
The two would become close friends and would start film projects together, including “Gorilla Interrupted”, a film about a group of four misfits who try to save the world during an alien invasion. With funding hard to come by as an independent filmmaker, the duo’s next project would come seven years later, entitled “Feeding Frenzy”. The film is a play on the ecology term describing an event when predators become overwhelmed with the amount of prey available. During this time, they were already producing projects through their own company called RedLetterMedia
YouTube Career
A year after the release of “Feeding Frenzy”, Bauman and Stoklasa started their own YouTube channel to continue their passion for film. They didn’t gain a lot of attention initially, but after Stoklasa released a 70 minute comprehensive video review of the film “Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace”, their videos began to gain a lot of attention. He presented the review as the character Harry S. Plinkett, a character who would become pivotal to their YouTube success.
Red Letter Media's Half in the Bag Episode 95. Mike Stoklasa and Jay Bauman educate us on Microagression while reviewing 'The Visit' by M. Night Shyamalan. www.redlettermedia.com
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They released their first YouTube series entitled “Half in the Bag” in which the duo review films in a more traditional format, though they include an overarching plot and occasional fourth wall-breaking moments. The show has been described by critics positively, and is usually presented with Bauman playing a VCR repairman who discusses films while trying to find ways of avoiding scheduled repair work on Plinkett’s VCR. In 2013, they released another show entitled “Best of the Worst”, in which members of Red Letter Media review numerous unusual films, including B-movies and instructional videos. It has been named by the “Daily Herald” as their most entertaining series.
Recent Projects
In 2016, Jay and Mike returned to creating film, as they released “Space Cop”, a science fiction action comedy film starring the duo alongside Jocelyn Ridgely and Rich Evans. According to the duo, the project was in development for a long time, dating back to 2008. However, the film didn’t receive many good reviews, with some critics stating that the film only catered to followers of Red Letter Media. Around the same time, they released a new series called “re:View” which is a stripped down and more straight forward approach to reviewing films, often featuring older films that are cult classics or genre defining.
Jay also became a part of a secondary channel effort being launched by Rich Evans, called “Previously Recorded” or “Pre-Rec”. The channel’s aim was to review video games, and it ran for around four years with Jay appearing several times to stream while playing video games. One such game was “The Binding of Isaac”, however, in 2018 it was announced that the channel would be put on hold for the foreseeable future.
Personal Life and Social Media
For his personal life, not much is known in terms of any of Bauman’s romantic relationships. He has not talked a lot about this aspect of his life publicly, which has led to a lot of speculation. Several people state that he is single while others believe that he is gay and is romantically involved with his longtime career partner Stoklasa. However, most of their appearances online indicate that they are just good friends who share the same passion for film. He is a big fan of comedy and horror films. He often enjoys doing absurd jokes or unexpected subject changes as seen on his videos.
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https://cleverfa113.weebly.com/blog/feeding-frenzy-newborn-day-3. — Jay Bauman (@JayBauman1) October 8, 2017
Jay Bauman Twitter
Similar to numerous YouTube personalities and filmmakers, he is highly active online through accounts on social media, particularly on Twitter on which he has over 80,000 followers. He uses the platform to express some of his opinions on films past and present, while also giving out recommendations from his fans. He often promotes films that are not often seen by many, while also commenting on more mainstream projects. He has shared his opinions on shows such as “Stranger Things”, and films such as “It”. He also does a lot of commentary regarding the horror genre, as he enjoys watching those types of films.