There's a moment everybody who has ever posted a thirst trap from a cabin weekend knows: the silence after the last phone dies. That's where Feed lives. Marco van Belle's 82-minute horror sprint dropped on August 6, 2026, and it takes the influencer getaway genre - all ring lights and brand deals - and drags it into the woods where something much older is waiting.
The premise is the kind of logline that sells itself in a group chat. Five social media influencers head to a forest retreat for a weekend of content and clean air. Instead, they inadvertently wake the world's first vampire. Not a moody teen with good hair. Not a count in a cape. The original article. And it is not happy about the last several centuries of bad PR.
Leading the pack is Grace Collender as Orla Ryan, one of two Ryan sisters on the trip - Molly McCann plays Ciara Ryan, which means the retreat has built-in sibling tension before anything fanged shows up. Rhys Mannion's Austin, Daisy Jelley's Nessa and Clinton Liberty's Lorcan round out the influencer crew, the kind of ensemble you just know gets picked off in ascending order of follower count. Charlotte Bradley brings Nora into the mix, Flynn Gray plays Cathal, and Niamh Hogan steps into the role of the Dearg Due - the first vampire herself. Even the name is a flex. It pulls from Irish folklore, and van Belle wields it like a warning label.
What makes Feed interesting isn't the body count - it's the bait. These aren't final girls stumbling into a haunted house by accident. They're professionals. They frame the shot before they run. Someone probably tries to negotiate a sponsorship mid-scream. The film's central joke, and its central terror, is that a vampire is the ultimate content creator: ancient, patient, and absolutely obsessed with being seen. The influencers want eyes on them. The Dearg Due wants something a little more permanent.
Van Belle keeps it tight at just over an hour and twenty minutes, which for a horror movie is a promise: no thirty-minute lore dump, no detour to a university library. The forest does the heavy lifting. Every crunch of a boot on leaves is a jump scare waiting to happen, and in a genre where so many modern horror films drown in murky darkness, an 82-minute runtime suggests confidence. Get in, get bloody, get out.
The cast is heavy on rising names rather than marquee stars, which horror has always done better than any other genre. There's something fun about watching a group of performers who feel genuinely plucked from a festival lineup get chased through the woods by a legend that predates every app on their phones. Collender and McCann as the Ryan sisters carrying the emotional weight is a smart anchor - if a vampire is coming for your family, you'd better actually like your family. Or at least have a lifetime of unresolved arguments to scream about while running.
And then there's the title itself. Feed. Influencer culture already runs on a constant, hungry scroll - consume, post, repeat. Van Belle just makes the metaphor literal, with teeth. The film has been floating around with a 5.8 out of 10 from TMDb users since release, which for a scrappy folklore-flavored creature feature suggests audiences found plenty to chew on even if not everyone agreed on the flavor.
Horror loves a reset button. Every few years someone tries to strip the vampire back to its roots - no glitter, no leather jackets, just hunger and old, old rules. Feed throws its influencers into that reset with a phone in one hand and a selfie stick in the other. Whether the Dearg Due becomes the next folk-horror icon or stays a one-weekend wonder, the movie's bet is clear: in a world where everyone is performing for an audience of strangers, the scariest thing in the forest is something that doesn't need followers at all. It just needs dinner.
