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Ravenous
Ravenous
is a 1999
Czech
-American
black comedy
horror
-
suspense film
directed by
Antonia Bird
and starring
Guy Pearce
,
Robert Carlyle
,
Jeffrey Jones
and
David Arquette
. The film revolves around
cannibalism
in 1840s
California
and some elements bear similarities to the story of the
Donner Party
and that of
Alferd Packer
. Screenwriter
Ted Griffin
lists Packer's story, as recounted in a couple of paragraphs of
Dashiell Hammett
's
The Thin Man
, as one of his inspirations for Carlyle's character.
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