Ravenous Movie Review 1999

Off-kilter tale of cannibalism in the American West in 1847 (loosely based on the Donner Party) loses its way when it begins to use man-eating as a metaphor for settlers carving up the land. When stringy, twitching Colqhoun (Carlyle) shows up starving and nearly frozen at an army fort in the Sierra Nevadas, he tells Captain John Boyd (Pearce) that he was with a party that resorted to eating their dead when stranded. When a team is sent to investigate, more than the facts are digested. Soon Colqhoun is extolling the virtues of pan-frying your pals to Boyd. The unusual subject and offbeat attempts at humor make this a recipe not for all tastes.

Distribution

Fox Home Entertainment, PO Box 900, Beverly Hills, CA 90213, Phone: (310)369-3900, Toll-free: 888-223-4FOX, Fax: (310)369-5811, URL: http://www.foxmovies.com/index1.html, Remarks: Also known as Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 100 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Serial Killers, Cannibalism, Black Comedy, Eat Me, Period Piece: 19th Century, Military: Army, Blizzards

Screenplay

Ted Griffin

Cast

John Spencer, Stephen Spinella, Neal McDonough, David Arquette, Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, Jeremy Davies, Jeffrey Jones

Cinematography

Anthony B. Richmond

Director

Antonia Bird

Music

Michael Nyman, Damon Albarn

Producer

Adam Fields, David Heyman, Tim Van Rellim, Fox 2000 Pictures, 20th Century Fox Films