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Ravenous

1999, Movie, R, 100 mins

Ravenous: Review

British director Antonia Bird swirls together 19th-century American history with horror-movie gross-outs for a witty, violent but otherwise impossible-to-describe revisionist take on "manifest destiny." Disgraced Army captain Guy Pearce is banished to a harsh, sparsely manned outpost in the Sierra Nevada mountains where the stifling boredom is relieved by the arrival of a half-dead Scot (Robert Carlyle) with a terrible tale to tell. Read the complete review for Ravenous

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Year: 1999
Rated R

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Cast
Robert Carlyle: Colqhoun/Ives
Guy Pearce: Captain John Boyd
David Arquette: Cleaves
Jeremy Davies: Private Toffler
Jeffrey Jones: Colonel Hart
John Spencer: General Slauson

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Ravenous: TV Guide News

January 26, 2007: Got a Toothpick? | TV Show Recaps | 1/29/2007
I found this week's Masters of Horror episode, The Washingtonians, to be one of the more creative and clever stories of both seasons. The premise reminded me a little bit of Ravenous, a cannibal movie of the confederacy kind, which I highly recommend if you like gruesome, moody and blackly comedic horror with a twist of historical drama. (It has a superbly unsettling musical score, too.) Of course, The Washingtonians was more of a political satire than a serious attempt at "rewriting history," but Ravenous truly made me feel like the events of the story could have possibly happened during harsh winters at "ye old valley forts." At one point during Washingtonians, HHH (horror-hound-hubby) and I decided that we knew the exact wording used in the casting call for the show: "the oldest, creepiest looking actors money can buy." Some of those cast members were pretty frightening before the white makeup, powdered wigs and blood-drenched feasting. I can definitely understand why "Amy" alway... read more

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