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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
A grimly funny frontier ordeal with an oddball garrison-like ensemble, patient dread, and bursts of startling brutality that echo Ravenous’s blend of Western hardship and cannibalistic horror.
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Why this pick
Its sun-scorched colonial frontier, morally compromised men, and filthy, fatalistic atmosphere offer the same sense of civilization breaking down at the edge of nowhere.
03
Why this pick
A lean, bleak period creature feature set on the American frontier, balancing an isolated rescue party, uneasy period detail, and a steadily worsening sense of horror.
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Why this pick
This spare prairie nightmare shares Ravenous’s hostile wilderness and period isolation, turning loneliness, guilt, and the unnerving sounds beyond a remote home into mounting dread.
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Why this pick
For Ravenous’s off-kilter Western spirit: a surreal black-and-white trek through a violent frontier, full of deadpan absurdity, ominous encounters, and a hypnotically strange atmosphere.
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01 / THE STORY
During the Mexican–American War (1846–1848), Second Lieutenant Boyd, who is fighting in the United States Army, finds his courage fail him in battle and plays dead as his unit is massacred. His body, along with the other dead are put in a cart and hauled back to the Mexican headquarters (throughout this journey blood drips into Boyd's mouth). However, in a moment of bravery, Boyd seizes the chance to capture the Mexican headquarters. His heroism earns him a captain's promotion, but when General Slauson learns of the cowardice through which victory was achieved, he posts Boyd into exile at Fort Spencer, a remote military outpost high in the Sierra Nevada (U.S.) commanded by the weary but genial Colonel Hart, and staffed by a motley array of misfits; the pious Private Toffler, the drug-addicted Private Cleaves, the drunken Major Knox and the ferocious Private Reich, in addition to the Native American scout George and his sister Martha.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Captain John Boyd
Colonel Ives / F.W. Colqhoun
Private Cleaves
Private Toffler
Gen. Slauson
Col. Hart
Knox
Private Reich
