Ravenous
Set in 1847 when many Americans made the journey across our continent in search oht gold, Captain John Boyd's promotion stations him at a fort where a rescued man tells a disturbing tale of cannibalism.
14 April 1961, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
20 December 1946, New York City, New York, USA
7 March 1963, Inglewood, California, USA
11 October 1956, Naples, Campania, Italy
26 July 1961, London, England, UK
5 October 1967, Ely, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
8 September 1971, Winchester, Virginia, USA
13 February 1966, Dorchester, Massachusetts, USA
28 September 1946, Buffalo, New York, USA
4 June 1960, Keshena, Wisconsin, USA
6 May 1944
8 October 1969, Saugus, California, USA
October 31, 2010
Director Antonia Bird and screenwriter Ted Griffin stir up an extremely unsavory concoction about cannibalism here.
December 01, 2016
... the definitive frontier cannibal movie. ... a gruesome survival thriller with a crimson-hued streak of black humor and an elemental hint of the supernatural.
June 02, 2014
There's an awkwardness to Ravenous' more violent scenes, and while Carlyle and Jones give zesty performances, the rest of the supporting cast is quirky to a fault.
December 23, 2005
The plot begins brazenly, but the story becomes more conventional (though no less bloody) as it goes along.
June 02, 2014
"Ravenous" could have turned out to be much more than what it ended up becoming, but thanks to an inability to take advantage of its creepy premise, all we get is a monotonous, forgettable, and worst of all, boring horror film.
June 17, 2014
Imagine a film that makes A Modest Proposal-style satire out of Dracula's gothic horror tropes in the spaghetti western milieu of The Great Silence. It's a pitch-black comedy about Manifest Destiny and cannibal frontiersmen.
June 25, 2014
It's a layered and very unique satire on America's consumption of the world...
October 14, 2013
More than just a gory horror film in period dress, though it bears saying over and over again that even as a simple Western-horror hybrid, this is pretty great.
December 08, 2002
...one of those rare, genuinely subversive (of Hollywood values) films, like Beyond the Valley of the Dolls or Eating Raoul
June 03, 2014
Ravenous is unlike anything else, and even if it's not to my own specific taste, I have great respect for its unrepentant weirdness.
June 23, 2003
A terrifically well-made gory horror movie with splashes of humor.
June 06, 2014
'He was licking me!' That plaintive, disgusted wail is pretty unforgettable once you've seen this one-of-a-kind tongue-in-cheek/blood-in-mouth historical horror movie that has garnered an appreciative cult audience...
