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| Ravenous | 
 enlarge | Director: Antonia Bird
Actors: Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, David Arquette, Jeremy Davies, Jeffrey Jones
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
List Price: $9.98
Buy New: $4.42
You Save: $5.56 (56%)
Buy New/Used from $3.29
Avg. Customer Rating:  (179 reviews)
Sales Rank: 9256
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Italian (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 101 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 2230396
UPC: 024543203971
EAN: 0024543203971
ASIN: B0009X75J2
Release Date: September 6, 2005
Theatrical Release Date: March 19, 1999
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Brutally Violent but Engaging September 4, 2006
Ravenous is about a soldier played by Guy Pierce who finds himself being hunted by a crazy cannibal. Robert Carlyle is bone chilling as the cannibal who won't stop until he has killed and...eaten Pierce and his men. The movie is silly and stupid at times but it's also creepy, disgusting and yes I just couldn't keep my eyes off it. It's engaging and the under-rated Guy Pierce is excellent. br /br / Caryle manages to be creepy, maybe even as creepy as Anthony Hopkins' as Hannibal Lector. He is a bit over the top though. He dresses like a vampire and almost plays the part as if he is one. Anyway I left out that he eats people because it makes him immortal and also because he has a taste for human beings. Pierce learns that he has to become like him if he wants to survive. He also discovers that Caryle is a soldier too when he gets back to camp. It drives him mad because he's around him all the time and no one believes he is dangerous. It's Pierce who they don't trust and believe is dangerous. This isn't the best movie I ever saw and it's not for everyone but still it's well made and well acted.
 Strangely alluring June 23, 2006
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Just an oddball kind of dark comedy horror tale. The music is fantastically weird as well. Just a nice, quirky and intelligent film.
Either you get this movie or you don't, and if you don't, too bad! June 11, 2006
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
As I was reading others reviews, it is just sad that some people don't get that this is supposed to be very different and quirky! (But I guess you have to be smart to understand a clever movie.) It's not supposed to be an on the edge of your seat thriller! It is gory, not scary!br /br /The music is fantastic if you get what it's trying to accomplish. It adds humor to horror, but not in a stupid way, in a clever way. This movie is full of excellent one-liners you'll be wishing everyone knew what you were referring to when you use them. br /br /The biggest point I want to make is: You have to watch this movie more than once. It just gets better. And if you don't get all the quirkiness and subtleties the first time, you will after the 2nd or 3rd time. Even if you did get them, you will see more everytime you watch it. br /br /P.S. In reference to another review: Martha says if Ives dies, Boyd dies because she doesn't know that Boyd is telling the truth about Ives. She thinks Boyd killed everyone!!!! (idiot)
Quite Unique, Very Good June 8, 2006
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
'Ravenous' is one of the strangest movies I've seen in recent memory. It could roughly be defined as a horror-comedy, but it's not much like most of the famed examples of the genre, as it is more subtle and less reliant on slapstick, and also just serious more often than most films of this sort. I think it could stand to be a little more serious overall, as it has some effective, largely unexploited horror concepts which are diminished somewhat by the humor. (On the other hand, most of the humor *is* funny.) Still, it's tough to argue with the results, and this is definitely recommended to horror fans. (That is, horror fans who are interested in actually seeing something a bit different rather than having the same damn formula repeated yet again. Don't get me wrong, I like lots of derivative, innovation-free films, but lotsa people seem to demand that exclusively.)br /br /'Ravenous' is about cannibalism, a common enough horror staple, but it looks at it in a different way, avoiding either zombies or savages and exploring the Wendigo myths. (i.e. The idea that a man could eat other men and grow to crave the flesh, needing more and more, while simultaneously gaining strength the more he eats, eventually becoming nearly superhuman.) It's also different from most contemporary horror in that it uses a period setting, and an atypical period setting at that, which is 19th century America shortly after the Mexican-American war. I'm no historian, obviously, but to my untrained eyes the film is quite visually convincing, readily evoking the period as I would imagine it. (This is especially impressive considering the fairly low, 12 million dollar budget.) Most of the action takes place in the Sierra Nevadas, which allows for some rather beautiful and striking scenery, which is generally nicely shot. (Well, takes place in the Sierra Nevadas of the mind, anyway. I believe it was shot in Slovakia.)br /br /Anyway, the plot centers around one Capt. Boyd (Guy Pearce) who, as the film begins, receives a promotion and commendation for bravery after single-handedly capturing a Mexican command post. Trouble is, he had, in fact, lain down and played dead during the battle, and only acted after being dumped in a pile of the dead. The blood of his comrades flows into his mouth which causes him to freak out and apparently become somehow rejuvenated, allowing him to capture the post. His CO knows that he was actually a coward, but he knows it would be unwise to punish him publicly, so he compromises by shipping him off to a remote fort in California, where he and the others are to help those on their way to the coast. Some time after arriving a gaunt, half-dead man Colqhoun shows up at the fort. His party came late and was snowed in, and they're eventually reduced to cannibalism. It's worse than that, however, as one Col. Ives eventually went mad and started killing others for food, which caused Colqhoun to flee. Boyd, Colqhoun and others return to their cave to investigate, and hopefully save those remaining, if any. Needless to say, this is when things get really bad.br /br /That's a helluva a lot of plot synopsis, and there's a whole lot more that I don't wanna give away. The film deserves a lot of credit for not going where you think it's going: After they returned to the cave I assumed that it would be nothing more than a slasher movie at that point, as Ives slowly picks off each of the party members. This does, in fact, happen, but this is just a fraction of the movie, and I would never have predicted the major plot developments of the second half of the film.br /br /Though I've not really mentioned it much, this film actually has a lot of humor in it. It's not really derived from the plot for the most part, the film is just filled with bizarre, quirky characters and comic dialogue. It's not ever a riotously funny movie, but it's amusing, and, of course, also works on a horrific and dramatic level. Sometimes the balance is off, however. For example, at a few points Bird (the director) chose to compliment some forest chase scenes with goofy hoe-down music. This actually manages the make these scenes somewhat lighthearted, but I don't think this really works dramatically, and fail to see the point. (Especially since there isn't anything humorous about these particular scenes apart from the inappropriate music.) Still, this misstep only stand out because of how consistently intriguing the film is otherwise.br /br /The acting is excellent all around. Pearce probably has the most conventional role as our main character Boyd, but he does a fine, convincing job with it. It's also interesting to see a (sort of) horror movie where the main character is something of a coward and in a relatively realistic way. (Rather than simply running in terror he tends to become paralyzed with fear and hopelessly indecisive.) Jeffrey Jones is also a particular standout as Col. Hart, commander of the fort. He's just funny and likable, if a bit of a doofus, as per usual for him. (From what I've seen, anyway.) Robert Carlyle is very good as the mad Ives. He makes for a villain not quite like any other I've seen.br /br /The film does faulter a little at the end as it degenerates into a big fist-fight which is just somewhat overly drawn out and is a little predictable and standard for a film which had been quite unpredictable beforehand. It's not bad, by any stretch of the imagination, but I would've hoped for more. br /br /I suspect that upon further viewings my enthusiasm for this film might wane a bit, as it loses its novelty. (You can never tell how a film will hold up to repeat viewings. Who knows, maybe I'll like it more.) Still, it would have to drop off a long way to cease being one of the most original and interesting horror films of the 90's. Check it out.br /br /Grade: A-
Here There Be Cannibals... May 14, 2006
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Ravenous brings to the screen the story of a Mexican-American war hero who is transferred to Fort Spencer in a remote area of California. Things get a bit more complicated when a visitor arrives informing the small garrison of cannibals in the vicinity...br /In short, the acting is above average (but nothing great), the dialogues are rather poor, while the setting and the plot are pretty good!br /A cross between Hannibal Lector and Dances with Wolves, the film combines horror, drama, action, and adventure making it rather enjoyable, as long as you're in that kind of a mood. 3 1/2 Starsbr /
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