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Ravenous
Starring: Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, Jeffrey Jones
Also Starring: David Arquette, Jeremy Davies
Director: Antonia Bird
Box Office Gross: $2.06m (USA)
DVD release date: 9/21/99
Special Extras: Theatrical trailer(s), TV spot(s), 3 Audio Commentary Tracks, Deleted Scenes, Photo Gallery, Costume & Set Designs, one hidden section.
Options: Subtitles in Spanish and English, soundtracks in French and English. Widescreen only. Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround.
Summary: A soldier in the Mexican-American war in 1847 is promoted to captain for his perceived bravery but soon transferred to a remote outpost in the Sierra Nevadas when the cowardly truth becomes evident. The outpost's keepers seem on the brink of madness in their own ways, and what passes for their tranquil is shattered by the intrusion of the lone survivor of an ill-fated expedition that ended in murder and cannibalism.
Actors also in: Guy Pearce was most notably recognized for his role in L.A Confidential. Robert Carlyle made it big in Trainspotting, and Jeffrey Jones has been in everything from BeetleJuice to Sleepy Hollow. Jeremy Davies was the cowardly soldier in Saving Private Ryan.
Related web sites:
20th Century Fox's ravenous site
Features review excerpts, screen takes, cast and crew info, general movie data.
"Ravenous is a stunningly effective and original movie that received an undeserved backlash from the movie industry, movie-goers and movie reviewers alike when it hit the screens in the USA on March 19, 1999."
Features a great photo gallery, a look at the characters in the movie, and discusses the themes and history of the story.
Features visitor reviews of the movie, where it earned an average of 5 out of 5 stars.
Reviews from the press:
Box Office Magazine Movie reviews
"Bird's direction is taut, pausing at just the right moments to remind us that it's okay to laugh. On occasion, Michael Nyman and Damon Albarn's score is intrusive, but for the most part it supports the difficult material well, as does director of photography Anthony B. Richmond's claustrophobic cinematography. -Tim Cogshell"
"For me, at least, there was never a question that the movie's highly realistic gore is as necessary to its theme and subject as the creepy chattering of Michael Nyman's score. Whether you want to view "Ravenous" as a subversive fable about the brutal settlement of the West, or just as an exceptionally well-made and atmospheric shocker, it's an original, even dazzling, work."
"...but Carlyle is finger-lickin' good as the demented Scottish cannibal. Wryly directed by Bird, the stalk 'n' snack sequences are properly stomach churning, with the supporting cast hitting just the right note of campy horror."
"How do you kill one of these insatiable flesh eaters? Drive a T-Bone steak through his heart? Antonia Bird (PRIEST) is the unlikely director of this stomach-churner. Two Tums up!"
"Raw, bloody and nastily hilarious, Ravenous manages to ride its premise all the way to an entirely appropriate -- and bleak -- conclusion, without ever discarding either its sense of humor OR its fierce commitment to its original idea: In an eat-or-be-eaten world, predators MUST eventually start to prey on each other, if only to keep themselves amused."
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