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Ravenous (DVD)

 

Description: Genre: Horror / Theatrical Release: 1999 / Director: Antonia Bird / Actors: Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle ... / DVD ... more
Ravenous (DVD) ... released 22 October, 2001 at 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Features of the DVD: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen / When was the last time you saw a new movie set during the 1840s? The era is the first oddball thing about Ravenous, though by no means the last. This provocatively weird movie is essentially a vampire film except that instead of drinking blood the baddies eat flesh. The setting here is Fort Spencer, a dismal collection of shacks huddled in the snows of the Sierra Nevada mountains. Mid-winter, a nearly dead Scotsman (Robert Carlyle, of Trainspotting and The Full Monty fame) staggers into camp with a story of desperate cannibalism. The skeleton crew (so to speak) manning the fort sets out to investigate, when... ah, but the twists and turns of this dark yarn should remain shocking. Be assured, however, that the cannibalism has just begun; this movie has cannibalism like Titanic had an iceberg. British director Antonia Bird (Priest) blends some humour into this scenario, especially in the final reels, but otherwise this is a fairly serious gore picture; the studio who released this film tried to market it as a black comedy, and the movie flopped anyway. It deserves a better fate--at the very least, it's not quite like anything else out there. The soundtrack a brilliant collaboration between Michael Nyman (The Piano) and Blur's Damon Albarn, is an offbeat blend of period twang and modern drone. Carlyle and Guy Pearce (of L.A. Confidential and the Aussie soap Neighbours) are fascinating in the lead roles--their sunken faces would look at home in Civil War photographs--and the eccentric supporting cast, including Jeremy Davies and David Arquette, adds flavour to the dish. --Robert Horton, Amazon.com

Newest Review: ... is proclaimed a hero but then mysteriously sent off to a tiny station where he can't get into trouble. He doesn't eat meat ... more

 ... and is haunted by bad dream and some very troubling images. Sounds interesting eh? Yeah, I thought so too but they do manage to f*ck it up so read on gentle reader! The soldiers at the fort find a man who claims he has trekked through miles of snow to escape from a maniac who was eating a traveling party. Right away alarm bells should be ringing, especially when they go to try and find the rest of the party. It turns out he has eaten them and has been driven insane by the hunger for flesh. And this hunger is infect...more

marandina
Crowned Review Ravenous (DVD): It's lonely being a cannibal. Tough making friends. (Movie o ... (1004 words)
by marandina - written on 09/01/08 (Very useful, 132 readings)
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Lieutenant Boyd (Guy Pearce) is an apparent hero during the American war with Mexico in the 1840's. Having been promoted to captain, his commanding officer discovers that he is a coward and transfers him to the remote Fort Spencer in the bleak, but picturesque, Sierra Nevada mountain range. With Boyd having met the dysfunctional fort team, Calhoun (Robert Carlyle) stumbles into camp looking bedraggled and traumatized. He tells his story about a wagon train, lost and cut off from the outside world after attempting a short cut that went wrong. As his story unfolds, the fort inhabitants listen in terror as Calhoun recounts a tale of desperation and depravity as the wagon ...

plipplop
Crowned Review Hallowe'en Horror: Bon Appetit (1021 words)
by plipplop - written on 21/10/07 (Very useful, 133 readings)
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Having survived the perils of the Mexican American War captain John Boyd is publicly congratulated and privately condemned. Aware that Boyd's survival was not due entirely to selfless bravery, his commanding officer "rewards" him with a promotion and a new posting – to a remote, mountainous base named Fort Spencer. Upon his arrival, Boyd is greeted by a dubious selection of peers and superiors, including an alcoholic, an overzealous Christian, and a simpleton. Late one night, Boyd is startled by a figure at the window outside the cabin. When the unit dashes outside to find the intruder, they find a dirty, emaciated man unconscious, suffering from ...

hogsflesh
Crowned Review Ravenous (DVD): Meat is Murder (1121 words)
by hogsflesh - written on 22/04/03 (Very useful, 73 readings)
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Ravenous, released briefly in 1999, is an unfairly overlooked little film. A darkly comic tale of cannibalism in nineteenth century America, it managed to both amuse and, at times, unsettle me. It seems that Hollywood is ill equipped to deal with genuinely interesting and innovative films these days. In a fair world Ravenous would be as well known as Blair Witch Project, and just as successful (it's the only Yank horror movie I've seen from the last few years that's as good as Blair Witch). Instead it's all but unknown. The film is set during the US/Mexico war of the 1850s (I know nothing about this war, I'm afraid). John Boyd, played by Guy ...

 
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