Ravenous (DVD) Reviews

If only I'd looked online sooner for this film - I hunted in stores and 2nd hand shops for nigh on 3 years for a copy of this before I was successful. I now try and recommend this to everyone I speak to, and thanks to this wonderful site I can now spread the word further! This 1999 film is something of an oddity - it's "hero" ...  Read the complete review

Guy Pearce & Bob Carlisle appearing in possibly the worst film both or either of them have ever been in. An army officer who has been involved in a big battle which was a blood bath 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 and is haunted by bad dream and some ...  Read the complete review

RAVENOUS Jamie Oliver once commented that Ravenous 'was an exquisitely pukka dish of rampaging culinary technique!' Gordon Ramsey agreed that the 'moderate application of a thick red sauce over the finest moist chopped liver sent a f***ing shiver down his spine.' Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall goes one step further, proclaiming that the ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

I saw Ravenous 'by mistake' quite a few years ago and one scene stuck in my mind so when I saw Ravenous in the shop I didn’t hesitate to buy it even though I couldn’t actually remember whether I had liked the film or not. The film is set in the Sierra Nevada wilderness during the 1840s Mexican – American War where Captain John Boyd (Guy ...  Read the complete review

Stars Guy Pearce,Robert Carlyle and David Arquette. When I started watching this film I was beginning to think I had done the wrong thing by renting it - the bleak scenery and setting were a bit much. It is set in the Sierra Nevadas wilderness at a lonely outpost where a lone survivor turns up to tell his story. They had been ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

'Ravenous' is one of those films that your parents would never have allowed you to watch when you were a kid. It literally drips with blood, virtually every scene contains gore and mayhem and the subject - cannibalism - is one of those guaranteed to make your pursed-lip relatives turn off the television in disgust. It suffered a change of ...  Read the complete review

Ravenous is a film that I had wanted to see ever since I first heard about it. A film about cannibalism, and a comedy at that! Sounded like it would be good, twisted perhaps, but good none the less. Do I think it is a good idea now that I have seen it, well yes I do, but this isn't the idea realised well though. The film ...  Read the complete review

John Boyde has been promoted but because he earned this by cowadice he is sent to Fort Spencer. While he is there a man arrives and tells them about the wagon trail he was with. One of the men with them Cononel Ives started to eat everyone so he escaped. Boyde and a few others decide to go and investigate. When they arrive the man starts to kill ...  Read the complete review