Ravenous

Ravenous - 1999 | 100 mins | Drama, Comedy, Horror | Colour

The Production Team

Director: Antonia Bird.
Producer: Adam Fields and David Heyman.
Executive Producer: Tim Van Rellim.
Script: Ted Griffin.
Cinematography: Anthony B. Richmond.
Editing: Neil Farrell.
Art Director: Adam O'Neil and Ricardo Spinace.
Production Design: Bryce Perrin.
Costume Design: Sheena Napier.
Make-up Dept: Fae Hammond and Anne Oldham.
Sound: John Larsen, Roger Mitchell, Mike Holding and Fernando Camara.
Music Composers: Michael Nyman and Damon Albarn.

The Cast

Guy Pearce - Capt. John Boyd
Robert Carlyle - Colquhoun
Jeremy Davies - Toffler
Jeffrey Jones - Hart
John Spencer - General Slauson
Stephen Spinella - Knox
Neal McDonough - Reich
Sheila Tousey - Martha
Bill Brochtrup - Lindus
Joseph Runningfox - George
David Arquette - Cleaves

Plot Synopsis

Antonia Bird's stunning yet uncomfortable blackly comic tale of cannibalism set during the American-Mexican war. When Captain John Boyd (Guy Pearce) is banished to a desolate military outpost in the high Sierra Nevada mountains he meets Colqhoun (Robert Carlyle), a starving Scot who claims to be the sole survivor from a group of settlers that were snowbound, and forced to seek refuge in a cave. In order to stave off starvation, Colqhoun claims the settlers resorted to cannibalism. Answering the call of duty, the camp commander, Colonel Hart (Jeffrey Jones), insists that his ramshackle band of men form a search party and follow Colqhoun to rescue any remaining survivors.