Ravenous will doubtless find some sort of cult following, but that cult will be following a lousy, ill-conceived movie.

| Oct 29, 2019

I]f anyone could make a good adaptation of either of Lansdale's Jonah Hex comic mini-series or his great standard "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road," it's Bird and Griffin.

| Oct 29, 2019

Antonia Bird's pitch black comedy is a patchily hilarious triumph. But the queasy and squeamish have been warned.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 29, 2019

Ravenous is a stupid black comedy set in the same place and the same year but more a Western version of Night of the Living Dead.

| Oct 29, 2019

It's "Eating Raoul" in buckskins. But the movie is also coarse and bloody and uses far too many horror movie tricks, like the shock of the mutilated body or the unexpected plasma squirt.

| Oct 29, 2019

Imagine a film that makes A Modest Proposal-style satire out of Dracula's gothic horror tropes in the spaghetti western milieu of The Great Silence. It's a pitch-black comedy about Manifest Destiny and cannibal frontiersmen.

| Jun 17, 2014

There's an awkwardness to Ravenous' more violent scenes, and while Carlyle and Jones give zesty performances, the rest of the supporting cast is quirky to a fault.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 2, 2014

[A]ll the blood in bloody Ravenous is just so much barbecue sauce.

| Original Score: C- | Sep 7, 2011

"Ravenous" is a largely unappetizing stew enlivened at times by the struggle of its characters to be, or not to be, cannibals.

| Jul 6, 2010

Carlyle acts his socks off, Pearce endures against terrible odds, and the action is confidently handled. As bizarre as its Michael Nyman-Damon Albarn bluegrass score, this is a gourmet dish for midnight movie ghouls.

| Feb 9, 2006

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 22, 2002

The looks of satisfaction on the faces of Guy Pearce and Robert Carlyle as they tear into human flesh in "Ravenous" are clear. But there is little to quell the viewer's appetite for entertainment from this raw mess.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 17, 2001

If there's anything worse than a cannibal movie, it's an undead-cannibal movie with pretensions about Manifest Destiny in the American West. And the problems with Antonia Bird's "Ravenous" don't end there.

| Jan 1, 2000

Of course a vampire is simply a cannibal with good table manners, and Ravenous is a darkly atmospheric film about an epidemic of flesh-eating and the fearsome power that it brings.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 1, 2000

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

It's one crazy-ass movie, and it's pretty startling that I liked it at all. But I did. Sort of.

| Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

In an age of fast-food horror films, Ravenous is that rare and well-seasoned meal that leaves you hungry for more. Eat it up.

| Original Score: A | Mar 19, 1999