Ravenous (1999)
Country: US/GB
Technical: DeLuxe/scope 101m
Director: Antonia Bird
Cast: Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, Jeremy Davies, Jeffrey Jones
Synopsis:
A remote cavalry outpost in the Rockies takes in a fugitive from a wagon train that got lost and turned cannibal. He turns out, however, to be the guide who deliberately led them astray.
Review:
An extraordinary but genuine mix of western and horror film (its plot rests on the plausibly native American premise that devouring human flesh not only regenerates and increases the strength of the devourer, but induces a kind of vampiric craving that can only be cured by death). It gets a bit silly well before the end but is certainly grippingly put together and, unusual for a stricken project, achieves a measure of cohesive weight.
Country: US/GB
Technical: DeLuxe/scope 101m
Director: Antonia Bird
Cast: Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, Jeremy Davies, Jeffrey Jones
Synopsis:
A remote cavalry outpost in the Rockies takes in a fugitive from a wagon train that got lost and turned cannibal. He turns out, however, to be the guide who deliberately led them astray.
Review:
An extraordinary but genuine mix of western and horror film (its plot rests on the plausibly native American premise that devouring human flesh not only regenerates and increases the strength of the devourer, but induces a kind of vampiric craving that can only be cured by death). It gets a bit silly well before the end but is certainly grippingly put together and, unusual for a stricken project, achieves a measure of cohesive weight.
Country: US/GB
Technical: DeLuxe/scope 101m
Director: Antonia Bird
Cast: Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, Jeremy Davies, Jeffrey Jones
Synopsis:
A remote cavalry outpost in the Rockies takes in a fugitive from a wagon train that got lost and turned cannibal. He turns out, however, to be the guide who deliberately led them astray.
Review:
An extraordinary but genuine mix of western and horror film (its plot rests on the plausibly native American premise that devouring human flesh not only regenerates and increases the strength of the devourer, but induces a kind of vampiric craving that can only be cured by death). It gets a bit silly well before the end but is certainly grippingly put together and, unusual for a stricken project, achieves a measure of cohesive weight.