Stars: Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, David Arquette, Jeffrey Jones, John Spencer

Director: Antonia Bird

Summary: When Captain John Boyd is banished to a desolate military outpost he meets Colqhoun a starving Scot who along with a group of settlers had become snowbound, as they take refuge in a cave they are forced to eat one another...

A cowardly American soldier (Guy 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 (Robert Carlyle) of an unfortunate mountain 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. RAVENOUS is an offbeat, blackly comic, and extremely bloody effort from director Antonia Bird (PRIEST).

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When was the last time you saw a new movie set during the 1840s? The era is the first oddball thing about Ravenous, though by no means the last. This provocatively weird movie is essentially a vampire film except that instead of drinking blood the baddies eat flesh. The setting here is Fort Spencer, a dismal collection of shacks huddled in the snows of the Sierra Nevada mountains. Mid-winter, a nearly dead Scotsman (Robert Carlyle, of Trainspottingand The Full Montyfame) staggers into camp with a story of desperate cannibalism. The skeleton crew (so to speak) manning the fort sets out to investigate, when... ah, but the twists and turns of this dark yarn should remain shocking. Be assured, however, that the cannibalism has just begun; this movie has cannibalism like Titanichad an iceberg. British director Antonia Bird (Priest) blends some humour into this scenario, especially in the final reels, but otherwise this is a fairly serious gore picture; the studio who released this film tried to market it as a black comedy, and the movie flopped anyway. It deserves a better fate--at the very least, it's not quite like anything else out there. The soundtracka brilliant collaboration between Michael Nyman (The Piano) and Blur's Damon Albarn, is an offbeat blend of period twang and modern drone. Carlyle and Guy Pearce (of L.A. Confidentialand the Aussie soap Neighbours) are fascinating in the lead roles--their sunken faces would look at home in Civil War photographs--and the eccentric supporting cast, including Jeremy Davies and David Arquette, adds flavour to the dish. --Robert Horton, Amazon.com

Aspect Ratio:	2.35 Wide Screen, 16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Audio Commentary With Antonia Bird And Damon Albarn, Audio Commentary With Jeffery Jones And Ted Griffin, Audio Commentary With Robert Carlyle, Deleted Scenes With Optional Commentary, Picture Galleries, Theatrical Trailer, Scene Access, Interactive Menus
Subtitles:	Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish
Year:	1999
Release Date:	October 22, 2001
Runtime:	97 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	00323 D V D
Keywords:	General, Wide, Screen, Horror, Occult, Sci, Fi, Ravenous
Genre:	Horror/Occult