Ravenous

Ravenous (2017)

Les affamés

In an isolated rural community of Quebec, Canada, some inhabitants attack other people, hungry for human flesh. A few survivors gather and go deep into the forest to escape them.

Date of release
2017-09-23
TMDB
5.9 / 10 (504)
Runtime
1h 44m
Genres
Horror, Drama, Science Fiction
Director
Robin Aubert

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 2 · Nominations: 0. Including: Toronto International Film Festival Award for Best Canadian Film; Prix Luc-Perreault

Ravenous is a 2017 French-language Canadian horror film written and directed by Robin Aubert and starring Marc-André Grondin, Monia Chokri, Brigitte Poupart, Luc Proulx, Charlotte St-Martin and Micheline Lanctôt. The film depicts the residents of a small town in rural Quebec as they deal with an outbreak leading to an attack by zombie-like people.

Production

Aubert cited the cinema of Robert Bresson and Andrei Tarkovsky as influences. Aubert cast Brigitte Poupart over Facebook, after asking her, without explaining he was working on a story about a zombie-like infection, "Oh, by the way, have you ever trapped an animal?" Ravenous was made on a production budget of CA$3.7 million, of which 1.05 million came from the Société de développement des entreprises culturelles (SODEC) and 1.15 million came from…

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