DVD Review-"Ravenous"

[HUCKLEBERRY FINNaplex]

Starring Guy Pearce and David Arquette.Picked this up at Best Buy on the advice of my fellow cinematic afficianado,anthrax...

Set in the mid 1850's during the Spanish War,Pearce stars as a lieutenant who is sneakily discharged for cowardice to an outpost up in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.Upon arrival,he and several other Soldiers take on a wandering stranger who stumbles upon their camp and tells them he is the lone escapee of a group of individuals who once they became lost in the wilderness,resorted to killing and eating one another in a barbaric fashion.The soldiers set out to confront the cannibalists,only to find out that a surprise awaits them that they did not expect...


This movie is fast paced,well dialogued,brutal/Gory and original.I recommend it for a rental or for purchase if you find it on sale(I got it for 5.99).

Thumbs up!

 

[HUCKLEBERRY FINNaplex]

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[eroticnsweet]

that is a kick ass movie! watched it a few years ago when it first came out...can't find it any where here to buy though.

 

[Ulcasterdropout]

I liked it...

 

[Wynn]

Rented it years ago. I did enjoy it. Liked how the local natives sensed the problem and left.

 

[HUCKLEBERRY FINNaplex]

Rented it years ago. I did enjoy it. Liked how the local natives sensed the problem and left.

Yep,the indians referred to the cannibals as "Wendigo".It was trippy how the consumption of human flesh gave them healing powers of almost vampire like proportions.Creepy shit.

 

[RottenWillow]

Yep,the indians referred to the cannibals as "Wendigo".

Which I dont understand since Wendigo is the spirit elemental of wind, though often also associated with cold.










Vinyl and latex member

 

[HUCKLEBERRY FINNaplex]

Which I dont understand since Wendigo is the spirit elemental of wind, though often also associated with cold.

They must have just been tossing in a name that sounded cool,lol.

 

[Kroliczek]

Good movie. Enjoyed it. Made me question ..."would I ???"

I decided that I would.

 

[Becoming]

WTF tell me more - I am not going to go out and rent it based on that...

 

[HUCKLEBERRY FINNaplex]

Here's a much broader overview from the movie's web-site...


In 1847, the United States was a land of pioneers, of gold-starved Americans making their way west. It was a period of Manifest Destiny, the inevitability of the country extending its boundaries, stretching out its arms and consuming all the land it could.

Lt. John Boyd (Guy Pearce) has become both a "hero" and a victim during this period of relentless consumption ... in ways he could never have imagined. Boyd’s journey to hell begins when an act of cowardice during a horrific Mexican-American War battle earns him banishment to a desolate military outpost, a waystation for western travelers in the barren and icy Sierra Nevada mountains in California.

Upon his arrival he is greeted by a small, motley group of soldiers, including his commanding officer, Hart (Jeffrey Jones), a man who has pretty much given up on life; Toffler (Jeremy Davies), the fort’s personal emissary to the Lord; Knox (Stephen Spinella), the "doctor" who never met a bottle of whiskey he didn’t like; Reich (Neal McDonough), the no-nonsense soldier of the group; and the over-medicated Cleaves (David Arquette), a cook whose meals are inspired more by peyote than culinary ambitions.

Into this cold, bleak and bizarre world staggers a stranger, Colqhoun (Robert Carlyle), a half-starved Scot who had been traveling with a group of settlers until they became snowbound. Seeking refuge in a cave, they soon ran out of food — and were forced to consume one another. Colqhoun barely escaped becoming an hors d’oeuvre himself.

Colqhoun’s tale has ramifications beyond cannibalism and the will to survive. It involves an old Indian myth called Weendigo, which states that a man who eats the flesh of another steals that person’s strength, spirit and very essence. His hunger becomes an insatiable craving: the more he eats, the more he wants, and the stronger he becomes. There can never be enough, and death is the only escape.

Boyd and the others soon get up close and personal with the Weendigo legend after discovering that Colqhoun holds an incredible secret, one that eventually will present Boyd with the ultimate carnivorous conundrum: whether to eat dinner or be dinner. It’s feast or famine for this beleaguered soldier: will he die a lonely hero’s death…or become a cannibalistic abomination — happy, strong and glowing with health?

Bon appetit!

 

[Becoming]

sounds good... thanks for the 411

and I would eat any person around if faced with starvation - I figured that out a long time ago..

 

[anthrax]

I told you you'd like it

The music was very well chosen for this film
and the images on screen are simply brilliant

the overall atmosphere is a real success

 

[HUCKLEBERRY FINNaplex]

Agreed,backdrop,musical score,performances and plot all kicked ass.Good recommedation Roeper!