Review: Ravenous Is A Bizarrely Fun Vampire Film
- Sep 6, 2017
- 1 min read
Ravenous isn't your average vampire movie. It's a little bit Western, a little bit Native American mythology, a little bit comedy and a whole lot of weird.
Fort Spencer stands at the edge of the frontier. Captain John Boyd (Guy Pierce) has been sent here for winning a medal for bravery. It seems like a dead end deployment until a man named Colqhoun (Robert Carlyle) stumbles into camp. He weaves a tale of cannibalism and madness and the troops at the camp soon find themselves stuck within the story of the wendigo, a man who consumes the flesh of others to grow his own power.
This is one weird movie. From it's beautifully strange score to Robert Carlyle's over the top performance, there's very little that's by the numbers. Pierce gives a solid performance though he's the most ordinary person in the film. It really is Carlyle who steals the show and every moment he is on screen drips with malice and oozes with brilliance.
While it isn't an out and out vampire movie, revolving more around cannibalism and consuming others to gain their power, and it doesn't even follow any of the vampire tropes, that's really the only genre that it aligns itself with. While it's technically horror, there's nothing overly scary, it's funny, but that's not the focus. It's weird and that's the only certain thing.
So go watch Ravenous. Embrace the strange, accept the odd, let it flow through you. There's certainly worse things to watch.
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