Ravenous begins in Fort Spencer in the 1840s, which is little more then a collection of shacks huddled in the snows of the Sierra-Nevada mountains. Its mid-winter and a nearly dead Scotsman (Robert Carlyle) staggers into camp with a story of desperate cannibalism. The forts skeleton crew sets out to investigate but the cannibalism has just begun.
Director Antonia Bird blends some humor into this scenario, but otherwise this is a fairly serious gore picture, a confused Twentieth Century Fox tried to market it as a black comedy, and the movie flopped, but its a cowboy/Horror, and a tale of morality. It deserves a better fate - at the very least, its not quite like anything else out there.
Robert Carlyle and Guy Pearce 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 flavor to Ravenous, overall I really enjoyed this edge of the seat movie!
Here is the trailer...
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