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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... 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 unfortunate expedition shows up at the outpost, it isn't long before he reveals himself to be a murderous madman with a taste for human flesh. An offbeat, blackly comic and extremely bloody effort from English director Bird (PRIEST). [More]

Starring: Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, Jeremy Davies, Jeffrey Jones

Starring: Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, Jeremy Davies, Jeffrey Jones, Neal McDonough, David Arquette, Stephen Spinella

Director: Antonia Bird

Director: Antonia Bird
Composer: Michael Nyman, Damon Albarn
Screenwriter: Ted Griffin

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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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08/07/08
Jim Lane
Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review

The plot begins brazenly, but the story becomes more conventional (though no less bloody) as it goes along.

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12/23/05
Jeffrey Westhoff
Jeffrey Westhoff
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

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04/09/05
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10/18/04
Dragan Antulov
Dragan Antulov
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A terrifically well-made gory horror movie with splashes of humor.

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06/23/03
Jeffrey M. Anderson
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05/20/03
Jim Shelby
Jim Shelby
Palo Alto Weekly

...one of those rare, genuinely subversive (of Hollywood values) films, like Beyond the Valley of the Dolls or Eating Raoul

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12/08/02
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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10/15/02
Margaret A. McGurk
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05/11/01
Peter Travers
Peter Travers
Rolling Stone

The one movie of 1999 that looks and feels like nothing you've seen before.

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04/30/01
Chuck Rudolph
Chuck Rudolph
Matinee Magazine

If you take it with a truckload of salt you may just find something of merit.

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04/02/01
Andrew Howe
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02/27/01
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02/14/01
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