Ravenous
1999 Directed by Antonia Bird
Synopsis
You Are Who You Eat
Captain John Boyd's promotion stations him at a fort where a rescued man tells a disturbing tale of cannibalism.
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Easily the best period cannibal, horror, comedy ever made.
I say comedy. It isn't really. But it is played for laughs at times, and that humour is needed. Many a time did I feel myself sinking into my chair as i watched. Robert Carlyle can sure play a psycho.
This is a terrifically well made gory horror. With its BRILLANT, and unsettling soundtrack, this is unlike most films you will ever watch.
Ravenous is absolutely bonkers.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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Odd, deliberately paced movie about cannibalism in the wild west. It seems like a bunch of movies about the Wendigo legend cropped up about this time, and this one is the most solid. A troubled veteran of the Mexican-American War is exiled to remote Fort Spencer, in California, just in time to hear a horror story from a survivor of an ill-fated wagon train that turned to eating each other while snowbound. Things rather fall apart for everyone in the movie from there, and half the fun is watching these berserk circumstances develop.
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Black comedy at its best. With a solid cast and a weird story about cannibalism on a small outpost in Sierra Nevada in the year 1847. The storytelling, camerawork, style and atmosphere in this little gem boggles down to a great but underrated movie. Classic.
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"Its lonely being a cannibal. Tough making friends." One of the most criminally underrated movies.
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Robert Carlyle at his very most menacing. Cannibalism at its most gleeful. A great score too.
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"Its lonely being a cannibal. Tough making friends." One of the most criminally underrated movies.
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Guy Pearce stars in a darkly humourous and brooding film that combines the hardships of the pioneering spirit against a deep desire to eat.
The isolation of the setting is highlighted as Pearce is cast out to a far flung outpost before a mysterious outsider with a memorable tale arrives to propel the story forward.
The plot is often unexpected as the entire cast seems wiped out in the first act before events turn Pearce into an innocent man accused of the Hitchcock variety. He then faces a moral choice that thrusts the audience into his position as he must relent to self-sacrifice.
The special effects are all kept in the realistic realm, with the supernatural element never taken too…
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had only seen this once before, easily 10+ years ago (what an archtypical indie '90s cast), and it's more entertaining than i recall. great music. and carlyle is fantastic, per usual. nice to see davies and pearce again in their pre-manorexia days (though pearce has definitely gotten back to his fighting weight, if LOCKOUT is any indication).
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This was unexpected. It wasn't as horrific or thrilling as I'd expect from a horror/ thriller. Bit of a laugh if anything. Pearce and Carlyle had good chemistry.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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Easily the best period cannibal, horror, comedy ever made.
I say comedy. It isn't really. But it is played for laughs at times, and that humour is needed. Many a time did I feel myself sinking into my chair as i watched. Robert Carlyle can sure play a psycho.
This is a terrifically well made gory horror. With its BRILLANT, and unsettling soundtrack, this is unlike most films you will ever watch.
Ravenous is absolutely bonkers.
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I would still eat a person before I ate veil or lamb.