1999 · horror · western · dark comedy
Ravenous
Directed by Antonia Bird1h 41m1999
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.
Our read: Ravenous (1999) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive horror · western · dark comedy entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, extreme horror / western, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- extreme
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