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Ravenous is a movie released in 1999, directed by Antonia Bird and written by Ted Griffin.

Plot

The film is a black comedy mainly about cannibalism. Set during and immediately after the Mexican-American War (1846 – 1848), a cowardly soldier is promoted to Captain and moved to the remote Fort Spencer in the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Soon a stranger named Colqhoun arrives and tells tales of his party leader eating members of their entourage. The soldiers stationed at the fort see it as their duty to investigate these happenings and see if any others have survived, but soon it is revealed that Colqhoun himself was the cannibal.

The Native American myth of Wendigo features heavily in this film, showing that the consumption of human flesh gives healing powers. The plot might be loosely based on the true story of Alfred Packer.

Cast

Guy Pearce
– Captain John Boyd
Robert Carlyle
– Colonel Ives/F.W. Colqhoun
David Arquette
– Private Cleaves
Jeremy Davies – Private Toffler
Jeffrey Jones
– Colonel Hart
John Spencer
– General Slauson
Stephen Spinella – Major Knox
Neal McDonough
– Private Reich
Joseph Runningfox
– George
Sheila Tousey – Martha

Soundtrack

The score for the film was written and performed by Damon Albarn and Michael Nyman.

Individual pieces from the score have shown up in many different movies including:

Opening sample of Saveoursoulissa in unaltered form in Magnolia (movie)

Manifest Destiny banjo riff in Hostel (film)

Taglines

You are who you eat
Eat up
Get a taste for terror

Filming locations

Prague, Czech Republic
Tatra mountains, Slovakia
Durango, Durango, Mexico
Poland

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