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- BFI identifier498930
- Date1999 (Copyright)
1999-09-10 (Release) - Production countryUSA, United Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisSet in the Sierra Nevada mountains in the mid-1800s, a horror story about a disgraced US Army captain who is sent to a remote outpost as punishment following a dishonourable incident in the Mexican-American war. A stranger stumbles half-dead into the fort, and identifies himself as the survivor of a group of settlers snowbound in a mountain cave, who had turned to cannibalism. The inhabitants of the fort get caught up in his tale. (Synopsis) As the title suggests, a tale of cannibalism set in the 1850's in the region of Sierra Nevada. John Boyd, a disgraced US army captain, is sent to an outpost as punishment for perceived military cowardice while fighting the Mexicans. Colqhoun, a mysterious, unkempt Scottish traveller, arrives at the outpost, telling a gruesome tale which concerns his party of settlers being led off course by their guide and eventually resorting to cannibalism to stay alive. (Synopsis)
- Work historyMilcho Manchevski replaced as director three weeks into production. Raja Gosnell briefly involved as replacement.
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- CreditsDirected by: Antonia Bird
©: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
Production Company: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
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Title
Ravenous (Original)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/ACD9-86E6-ED97-B1E6-278F-JCategory
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
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- StillsPhotograph: film still - Landscape - SPD-2012580
Photograph: film still - Landscape - SPD-2012581
Photograph: film still - Portrait - SPD-2012582
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view all - ArticlesFilm Tutti i Film della Stagione v6 n42 Nov/Dec 1999 - Credits, Review, SynopsisTotal Film n28 May 1999 - PreviewPremiere v11 n9 May 1998 - ArticlePremiere v11 n9 May 1998 - Articleview all
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- Ravenous
Work - 498930 - 1999 (Copyright)
USA - Film - Fiction
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