ArthouseSchmarthouse’s review published on Letterboxd:
7.5
Channel4
A super interesting, largely overlooked 'cannibals but set in the old-timey American West' film featuring a fascinating blend of genres-- Western, action-adventure, horror-- and two great central performances from Guy Pearce and Robert Carlyle as two dudes rolling around wintry forests trying to eat/not eat each other. It is pretty bonkers in conception, but thr tone is largely self-serious, which actually works pretty well and gives the film a muscularity and sense of dread, similar a more recent cannibal film, RAW, which I think must have been at least a bit inspired by this. There is also an interesting use of cannibalism-- and the insatiable, unquenchable hunger that this unleashes-- as a critique of Manifest Destiny. The biggest attraction of RAVENOUS, though, is the off-kilter, discordant score-- co-written by Damon Albarn of Blur and Gorillaz frame-- which is just incredible and gives the film a sense of almost surrealist delirium that helps it rise above what might otherwise have been B-movie genre territory. Highly recommend this one!
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