Antonia Bird is best known for the unsettling Priest, which tackled the issue of gay clergy head on. Ravenous is devoid of such contemporary sociologi

The film that proves just how dull cannibalism can be.

"Ravenous" is a largely unappetizing stew enlivened at times by the struggle of its characters to be, or not to be, cannibals. Very loosely based on the Donner Party incident, this oddball period piece set at a remote fort in the Sierra Nevadas, circa 1847, essentially approaches its subject seriously, but does take stabs both at horror and grotesque comedy, neither with much success.

Antonia Bird’s Ravenous is an exciting, new kind of gothic horror film.

Of course a vampire is simply a cannibal with good table manners, and "Ravenous'' is a darkly atmospheric film about an epidemic of flesh-eating and the