Ravenous
After arriving at his new, remote Army outpost, Capt. John Boyd and his regiment aid a wounded frontiersman who recounts a horrifying tale of a wagon train murdered by its supposed guide – a vicious U.S. Army colonel gone rogue. Fearing the worst, the regiment heads out into the wilderness to verify the gruesome claims.
Why it matters
A grimly witty feast of cannibal horror that blends frontier survival with dark satire and body horror.
- Guy Maddin’s eerie direction mixes period Western tropes with unsettling gothic atmosphere and black humor.
- David Arquette and Robert Carlyle deliver performances that balance grim menace with absurdity, elevating the offbeat script.
- Practical gore effects by Tom Savini and Greg Nicotero serve up visceral, inventive carnage that still holds up.
- For fans of folk horror and genre mashups, it’s a rare breed of grim, witty wilderness terror with a twisted appetite for subversion.
Director
Cast
Horror DNA
Gore
85
Slow Burn
66
Psychological
86
Supernatural
0
Creature
36
Disturbing
100
Fun Factor
67
Cerebral
71
Survival
83
Survival
