Upon receiving reports of missing persons at Fort Spencer, a remote Army outpost on the Western frontier, Capt. John Boyd investigates. After arriving at his new post, Boyd and his regiment aid a wounded frontiersman, F.W. Colqhoun, who recounts a horrifying tale of a wagon train murdered by its supposed guide, a vicious U.S. Army colonel gone rogue. Fearing the worst, the regiment heads out into the wilderness to verify Colqhoun’s gruesome claims.
Celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, Antonia Bird’s Ravenous has been called by Vulture one of the best horror movies since The Shining while the A.V. Club finds it to be “one of the genuine studio-backed curios of the 1990s” whose “uniquely kooky sensibility has given it a surprisingly long life as a cult favorite.” Check it out for yourself at IU Cinema this Friday!
“Antonia Bird’s pitch-black comedy is a patchily hilarious triumph.” — Simon Braund, Empire Magazine
Ravenous will be screened at IU Cinema on January 26 as part of the Not-Quite Midnights series.