Ravenous

Part of the special series NACHTBLENDE

“Sort of the STARSHIP TROOPERS of cannibal movies”
— matt lynch on Letterboxd

You are what you eat. And sometimes, that’s a bit of a problem. Set in a blood-soaked снежный wilderness and driven by gnawing hunger, British director Antonia Bird serves up RAVENOUS, a pitch-black frontier horror trip in which the American Dream quite literally devours people. Bon appétit!

Mexican–American War, Sierra Nevada, somewhere in the middle of nowhere: Captain John Boyd (Guy Pearce) plays dead in a pit full of corpses. It saves his life—and turns him into a controversial hero. The blood of his fallen comrades, which trickles into his mouth, is only a small foretaste. From then on, the film fully lives up to its German title RAVENOUS – EAT OR DIE…