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The strength of this French language zombie film is that is relies on tension rather than action to produce thrills. Set on the Canadian countryside, a group of survivors are hunted by hungry zombies, creatures whose behavior at times eerily echoes of their previous consciousness. The story's rather small scale, the lack of a universal scope to this zombie apocalypse, gives it an intimate feel. And the silence of the rural setting, occasionally broken by zombies screaming, is as haunting as it is strangely moving.

I feel this movie could fade away into the myriad of zombie images if I were not to write a passage down about it. It plays out something like an episode of The Walking Dead season IV where they're on the road again. It's altogether quite serious, and yet it has some slapstick dark comedy thrown in at unexpected moments. In its quiet, subtle way, it leaves some of the most haunting, ghostly imagery imprinted on the mind, something like of a recurring dream. As in The Cured (2017), it hints at maybe a sort of pack mentality or unconscious motive shared by the zombie horde. Is there a celestial theme also suggested by the strange furniture shrines erected? Maybe the best aspect of this movie are the unanswered questions, allowing us to vicariously live the anxiety of the protagonists.

This film manages well to give anxiety to the viewer even if it is very slow and without much sense accomplished to exist. The majority of the film is carried on thanks to the stupid choices of the protagonist that generate a terrible cascade effect.

I really wanted to like this. I was highly anticipating it, and it looked absolutely awesome. Unfortunately, while the score is very appropriate and the cinematography is beautiful, there's no other reason to watch this. There's no plot. No character development. There no reasoning for anything they do or for what happens. There is a lot of silence, standing around, and making bad choices, though.

Honestly, a huge disappointment for me.

The infected are confused and hostile they roam the land looking for healthy people to bite - this time with a French twist.

It is nice to have a change from the glut of U.S and U.K offerings; despite the obvious similarities in setup the style is definitely different.

Two groups of survivors do their thing: running, fighting, crying, dying. There are elements of dark humour and a few surreal moments that were welcomingly unexpected.

The film does become a bit stereotypical French artsy. Some of the shots of scenery are a bit long and strange - almost as if the director really wanted to do something more high-brow than a zombie movie.

This is fairly straight forward. Details of some of the zombie-law are left to the viewers discretion. The ending was too artsy and open for me.

If you have a lot of zombie films under your belt then sure give this a go. If you are fairly new to the genre then this may feel like a waste of your time and I would direct you towards the likes of "REC", "Carriers", "28 Days Later" or "Day of the Dead"

After an apocalypse where most of the population in a small location in the woods has turned into ravenous zombies, survivors join forces expecting to go to the protection of the big city. However their journey becomes hopeless when they learn what happened in other locations.

"Les affamés", a.k.a. "Ravenous", is a dismal and hopeless story of a sort of zombie apocalypse. The screenplay keeps the mystery and tension in the beginning with the lack of explanation to what is happening (and has happened). The lack of explanation why the ravenous creatures stack chairs and other objects and then stop to stare is another flaw in the story. The fool character has the intention to break the tension but is annoying indeed. In the end, "Les affamés" has a promising storyline that should (and could) have been better and better. My vote is six.

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As a massive zombie & horror movie lover i was super excited about the awesome reviews for this movie but during the whole film all i could do was ask WHY?WHY are you just standing there,WHY are all your windows open,WHY are you going off by yourself, WHY are you walking TOWARDS the danger and WHY are the zombies stacking furniture(huh?) etc.etc.etc.Not to mention the WHY of the ENTIRE movie.No explanations to ANYTHING!This movie was an accumulation of people staring,people walking and hearing zombies scream like a cat having it's tail pulled!You never get to know the character's backstorys and there's no reason of how they got to be where they were.Again i emphasize i LOVE zombie movies,i guess if i hadn't gotten so excited over the reviews,maybe i wouldn't have felt so ripped off.

If you're like me - a fan of zombie films for more than just gore or action, a fan of creative new takes on the zombie film genre - then you won't waste your time with this one.

I will warn you: it's slow-paced, and many complain about the lack of character development. I disagree with that point. The characterization isn't spot on, but it's not nonexistent. People also have complained about the ambiguity.

But. The cinematography, as some have said, is beautiful to watch. The characters are believable. The soundtrack is well done. And the ambiguity, to me, was kind of the point. We don't always know why a zombie does or does not act in a certain way, or where the virus originated, or whether the military is still out there.

If you feel like watching something thought-provoking, and aren't just looking for some cheap laughs or scares, give this a try and stay the course. Then tell me what you think. 👍

This one went straight under my radar and I simply hadn't heard of it, had it not been for a recommendation I may not have come across it at all.

A multi award winning French Canadian effort this could be compared to the 28 Days Later (2002) franchise. In that our antagonists are not zombies but arguably just feral people.

I was struck by the creators choice to have the movie filmed in French. Canadian movies rarely are and it seems like a baffling choice, surely they know that English would have made it more accesible and how many people do not like subtitles.

Thankfully I'm not one of them so despite this weird choice I gave it a go and was left rather undecided.

Without a doubt The Ravenous is a pretty film, the cinematography is fantastic as is the score that goes with it. It tells your usual story of a group of survivors doing everything they can to stay alive during this outbreak and the characters are interesting enough.

Sadly it comes across really rather dull. I didn't expect nor want wall to wall action, that's not the issue. The issue is it just comes across quite lifeless, almost like creators knew how to make a visually impressive film but didn't know how to tell a story.

The Ravenous isn't bad, it's just underwhelming and despite it's multiple award wins I think it's still a title that will only appeal to a certain type of moviegoer.

With its junior Walter White lead and unexplained confusing plot points this failed to impress.

The Good:

Beautifully shot

Well scored

The Bad:

Frustratingly dark in places

Leaves a tad too much to the imagination

Things I Learnt From This Movie:

Musical instruments should be a no.1 priority during the apocalypse

I really liked this film. Its a very different take on the genre, with the emphasis on the need to be quiet to avoid attracting the zombies. Its a slow burn, but I think that helps build the tension, and it relies more on that than shock scares. The gore is minimal, but effective when used. It suggests there is more to the Zombies than just mindless eaters, but it doesn't really answer what. So it has a bit more brains in it (pun intended...) but is a good addition to the genre. Unlike many of the other Zombie films I've seen, most of which are over padded shorts.

I like the plot, but this is like watching another zombie in different place.. plot could improve and make it better since this a survival movie..

Just a thought, why their houses are easy to break in? Seems like all zombie movies doesn't shelter anyone since the houses are made to break.. could make a better realistic scene since houses are supposed to be strong to withstand any catastrophe, especially breakins of mindless zombies.

I can only assume that the writer or director had some idea for some scenes and said "Let's make a movie out of these scenes and find some reason to create that scene." "Should we bother with a plot or character development?" "Nope. I want a scene where a lady is in a field and is hiding in the plants from a zombie." "Why would someone in the middle of a zombie apocalypse be out there without a weapon?" "I don't know and don't care. Then I want a scene where a lady drives into a town and turns on her car radio to attract zombies, she kills one, and then drives off." "Why?" "I DON'T KNOW AND I DON'T CARE!"

This is one of those movies where it's impossible to imagine these characters surviving for five minutes. They constantly make stupid decisions for no reason at all. And the zombies can apparently teleport and go from being 500 feet away to 5 feet in a matter of moments just so that they can get in a cheap jump scare and kill another character. The good news is the characters are so flat and boring you won't care.

What we're left with is a movie with a lot, and I mean A LOT, of shots of people standing around staring. The zombies stare. The character stare. And after some staring they either chase or fight each other. But I can only assume that their budget couldn't cover any decent special effects so it's a lot of people being killed off-screen.

After the first twenty minutes I was just watching it in a sort of fascinated horror waiting for any sort of hint of a plot. But none ever arrived. Spend your time on ANYTHING else.

P.S. The character who is blissfully unaware of what is going on was kiiiinda a funny idea but the idea that the main characters wouldn't even bother to tell him was just as stupid as the rest of their decisions. Especially since he too can teleport like the zombies do and apparently cannot be seen in the side view mirror on cars.

A plot that thrills with a formula that combines suspense, action and enough zombie gore to satisfy fans of "The Walking Dead". It can be very boring. Nonetheless, fans of zombie genre should at least try watching this, lethargic and whimsical fiasco.

I liked it, it was a interesting and a cool movie. The little girl was adorable and she made the movie better...kr.kr2);82kr:72kr:72!kr32kr7:kr273)37364672kr4kr47kr374kr I uhee.

"Ravenous" (2017) is a slow, morose movie about a group of incredibly stupid, French people trying to survive a zombie apocalypse.

The movie is set in rural, northern Quebec a couple of weeks after a 'Rage' virus-type plague has decimated the population and destroyed organized society. There is no mention of any help coming from anywhere else so presumably the virus has caused a worldwide collapse. As in "28 Days Later", the archetypal film of the FZ (Fast Zombie) sub-genre, the zombies are not dead per se, they are living humans infected with a virus that wipes out their intelligence while radically amping up their aggression. The 'Infected' of "Ravenous" are a bit smarter than their counterparts in other movies, being capable of exercising stealth and simple ambush tactics while also preserving some kind of symbolic awareness.

The cinematography in the film is often beautiful and the characterization is pretty good. I know a lot of the other reviewers here didn't think there was much characterization but on that point, I have to disagree. I suspect the problem is they just didn't like the characters which is understandable since, with the possible exception of the little girl, they're all as dumb as rocks. However the fact is the movie is a pretty good character study IF you can get past their lack of tactical intelligence.

The great weakness of the movie is it's lack of respect for the genre. Writer-director, Robin Aubert, seems to have never thought about any of the practical issues that would arise in an apocalyptic, SHTF (S*** Hits The Fan) scenario. I wouldn't hold the idiocy of his characters against his movie if there was any sign that their stupidity was deliberate (ie a conscious artistic choice) but there isn't. They're dumb because he is... at least as far as survival issues anyway.

Summing up, the ultimate joke in all this is that the Infected in this flick are smarter than the characters are. I rate "Ravenous" as a '3' because in IMDb's weird rating system '1' equals zero and (as previously stated) there are only two good things about this movie, thus making it a three.

Ok, first things first. I am not a critic. I am just a normal audience watching 1 movie a day. I hadnt seen the trailer, so I had no idea what I was expecting. the Genre "drama & horror", is given to the movie. Where there is some drama, the horror part is no where to be seen. Positive: great landscapes. I guess the first zombie movie with such scenery. some effective humor here and there. Negative: It is DULL: very slow pacing, camera focus on a character for 30 secs, without anything happening. no expressions, no message. just dullness. It is Dumb: the characters do not live in real world. OR they all are in total shock (which is hard to beleive since it has been weeks and months they have been living like this). The decisions made make no sense. for example in an important scene a group of people while realising they have been ambushed, live the house on foot (there are cars around which they can use). but they dont. No idea why. Zombies are like ghosts, they appear out of no where. In one shot a character is alert holiding a gun in open, next shot she is bitten by a single zombie. why didnt she shoot her, how did she not see her coming? not answered. I like when a director leaves a hint and let the audience use his/ her imagination but in this case my imagination couldnt catch up. I was left clueless. Verdict: if you are looking for a zombie horror movie, skip this. you will be disappointed.

Zombies are way overrated, and I don't get the cultural obsession with them over the last 10 years , pushing aside the classic ghosts and vampires. So when a Canadian zombie movie went to TIFF, start salivating! The Toronto festival awarded it Best Canadian Film seemingly just for showing up. Billed as a fresh reinvention of the zombie genre with loads of political allegory, Ravenous gives us zombies who can run rather than slowly saunter, but really nothing else original.

The cheapness of the production shows through over and over again. Anyone can shoot people walking through a grass field on a shoestring budget, with zombies who are just people wearing the most minimal makeup. The odd gory special effect doesn't add much to the impression the film makes as a technical achievement. At best, some sequences are entertaining in their action. As an allegory, though, there's nothing here, and no message. Like the genre itself, Ravenous ends up overrated.

I happened to sit down to try to get through the 2017 for the second time again now in 2020. I tried it the first time back in 2019, but had to give up out of boredom. And I managed to sit through it now in 2020. And me giving up on a zombie movie is almost sacrilegious.

Right, well "Les affamés" (aka "Ravenous") was by no account an overly interesting movie, and for a zombie or infected people movie, then it was just outright rubbish. And I have no idea what writer and director Robin Aubert was trying to accomplish with this storyline. I mean the infected people - or zombies if you will - were constructing tower-like monoliths out of chairs or toys. What was that all about?

The storyline as a whole was pretty straight forward as the zombie / infected people movies tend to go. So there were no surprises or twists along the way. And in that aspect, you know what you get here, as it is all very generic and predictable.

As for the characters, well, this is where the movie definitely snapped for me. Because the character gallery is just so very bland and pointless that you don't even care an inch about them. It is hard to tell where one character ends and the next begins, as they just blended into one massive faceless mass.

"Les affamés" wasn't running heavily on the usage of special effects, in fact they were scarcely seen throughout the course of the movie. This was also something that took away from the overall enjoyment of the movie.

I managed to sit through the entire movie this time around, but I was by no means overly thrilled or entertained by what the movie turned out to be. My rating of "Les affamés" ends on a mere three out of ten stars.

The negative reviewers missed the nuanced point of this film. I am a huge dystopian post apocalyptic movie and zombie fan...and have seen most of them - even all the foreign ones. This one is refreshingly different, and I enjoyed it immensely, despite its flaws. It's not a film about surviving (such as The Walking Dead), but of just barely existing, and the tricks to the mind it plays.

The entire movie is filmed as if the viewer is in a mental dissociative dream state. Which you would be in a world such as this one. Far too many movies show unrealistic people who are always on their guard, never making mistakes, always able to survive with near super hero powers. Here we see real humans, who make inexplicable mistakes. However, this is a dissociative dream state world, we don't need the details, nor does what we see need to make any sense. There are no deep human relationships in this world...they have been destroyed. The allegory to our materialistic society is deeply amusing - as the afflicted show. There are also many realistic terrifying moments...usually quite fleeting (which makes them even more terrifying).

The musical score and photography are absolutely exquisite. The long creepy pauses, fog, deep forest, strange guttural screams, strange edits all add to a feeling of disassociation. The viewer becomes part of this surreal world. The suspense is found in the absolute quiet minimalism, the tiniest of sounds.

Too many negative reviewers whose movie goer experiences demand factual linear storytelling or action will not like this film. My take is it's an artful film I will watch several times again. Must see the reason for this dystopian world. It's alluded to after all the credits play. If you don't see it, you will never know why this world happened.

In a small, remote village in upstate Quebec, things have changed. Locals are not the same anymore. Something mysterious has happened, their bodies are breaking down and they have turned against their loved ones. A handful of survivors goes hiding into the woods, looking for others like them.

Ravenous is written and directed by Robin Aubert (Saint Martyrs of the Dammed). It stars Marc-Andre Grondin (C.R.A.Z.Y.), Monica Chokri (Heartbeats) and Charlotte St-Martin in her film acting debut.

What I like about this film is that it is all about tension in stead of the usual boring jump scares. The amount of tension makes it hard to watch, which I think works in its favor. It makes you feel that you are unable to breath all the way through the film. The acting is fantastic as well, especially from Marc-Andre Grondin. But what I like most about this film is the simply sublime direction, is easily the best direction I've seen from a Netflix original film, and easily sum of the best direction I've seen so far this year.

Sadly this film isn't perfect, you can tell characters are going to die as soon as you see them. Act one drags on as well, Trust me though watch it up too the 30mins mark and you will start to be entertained. The one thing which I hated most about this film was a character dressed like a soldier who sometimes just pops up randomly to say hello to the main characters. His whole character was so unnecessary, without his character this fil m could be a solid 9/10.

It is a tough watch, but in my opinion its worth it.

7/10

Concept of zombie movies is simple. Load up on food, weapon and resources. I just don't know what the heck people in the movie were doing. They are safe in their home and then they decided to go out and zombies start chasing them. They reach the shelter and then they decided to go out and get killed. No one is questioning anything. No one is scared, or excited. They all are just bored. 1-dimensional characters.