A terrifically well-made gory horror movie with splashes of humor.
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06/23/03
Ravenous (1999)
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Reviews Counted:36
Fresh:15
Rotten:21
Average Rating:5.7/10
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Genre: Horror/Suspense
Synopsis: A cowardly soldier (Pearce) is stationed at an isolated military outpost with a bunch of misfits in Sierra Nevada following the Mexican-American War in 1847. When a dazed survivor (Carlyle) of an... [More]
Starring: Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, Jeremy Davies, Jeffrey Jones
Director: Antonia Bird
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Reviews for Ravenous
Without a doubt the best -- and possibly only -- period cannibal horror comedy ever made!
01/01/00
Accomplishes the seemingly impossible task of being overstuffed and undercooked at the same time.
01/01/00
If you take it with a truckload of salt you may just find something of merit.
04/02/01
It's too arty for the genre gang, and too grim for the art crowd, and its tone wavers uncertainly between quirky comedy and blunt violence.
01/01/00
...one of those rare, genuinely subversive (of Hollywood values) films, like Beyond the Valley of the Dolls or Eating Raoul
12/08/02
I found myself often shrinking down in my seat, afraid to see what was going to happen next, but not daring to take my eyes off the screen, either.
01/01/00
The one movie of 1999 that looks and feels like nothing you've seen before.
04/30/01
It'll be on cable soon enough--wait for it and you'll thank me.
01/01/00
The plot begins brazenly, but the story becomes more conventional (though no less bloody) as it goes along.
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