Welcome back to Movie Recap. Today I'm gonna show you a 2017 French-language Canadian horror
film called, Ravenous. Spoiler’s ahead. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the video.
The movie begins in a small village in Quebec. It is a normal day in a racing area where racers
are busy completing the tracks. Meanwhile, a racer wearing white suit and a staff are
romantically kissing when they are interrupted by a young woman who is staring at them.
The racer asks the young woman how they can help her but she runs and screams towards them
then bites the staff on her lower neck causing a hiss of blood. The racer yells
for help but no one hears him because of the excessive noise of racing cars.
A lot of things with blood stains are scattered on the road. There is also
an overturned vehicle on the side. Suddenly, a man named Real runs in the forest because
he is being chased by two infected men. A young boy named Ti-cul is crying alone in
the middle of the field. He releases the horse then gets a gun and walks in the forest.
Two friends, Bonin and Vézina are happily exchanging jokes while drinking in the
middle of the forest. They leave the area after burning an infected.
Céline stops in the middle of the road then turns on the radio to its highest volume. A zombie hears
it and runs towards her. She gets her machete and angrily stabs the zombie multiple times.
Blood splatters on the rear window of her car. Céline wearily leans on the steering wheel.
When she raises her head, she sees an infected boy staring at her from the side of her car.
She is a mother and cannot afford to kill a child so she just drives away.
Bonin and Vézina patrol around the area to kill the infected. While roving,
Vézina sees an acquaintance and her daughter standing in the forest. He comes a bit closer
to shoot them but hesitates. He checks the other side of the forest and sees a child on the tree.
When he turns to his side, his infected acquaintance is already there. He shoots her but
it is too late because she already bit him. After that, the other infected chase him. Fortunately,
Bonin and Vézina escape from them. Real is staring at a woman lying on the
floor when suddenly two infected men run towards him. Fortunately, Ti-cul arrives
and shoots the infected men. Ti-cul points the gun at Real thinking that he is also infected.
Real tears his wife's clothes and wraps it around the wound on his legs while uttering
his regret of not killing his wife right away causing the death of their two boys.
Bonin and Vézina lay down at the back of the car while looking at the beautiful blue sky.
They talk about the things they didn't do that they deeply regret.
Later on, Vézina dies. Bonin bursts into tears while driving.
Céline stops over at the gas station to refuel her car when two old women named Pauline and Thérèse,
Vézina’s mother, suddenly point a gun at her and order her to undress. When they are sure
that she isn’t infected, they offer her a drink and talk about the situation.
Bonin goes to a house and sees an armed man. He tells the man that the place is his hunting area
as well. The man happens to know Vézina and is surprised about what happened to him. He buries
Vézina then drinks with Bonin. Bonin goes inside the small house and sees a girl named Tania who is
tied to the bed. The man says that Tania might be infected because of the bite mark on her hand but
Tania insists that it is a dog bite. Bonin goes to Tania to tell her what will happen to a person
who was bitten by an infected person without knowing that she cannot hear him because the
man plugged her ears. She tries to convince Bonin that she isn’t infected but he doesn’t believe.
Meanwhile, the man goes to the forest to hunt the infected but unfortunately was bitten by one.
Bonin hears the scream of the man so he hurriedly releases Tania. They get into the car but before
they leave the area, the man who is now infected jumps in front of the car so Bonin drives as fast
as he could because other infected are chasing them as well. All of a sudden, the infected man
grabs Tania’s neck so she doesn’t have any choice but to shoot his head which traumatizes her.
Bonin unloads the dead body of the man in the car while Tania is cleaning her piano
with Bonin’s map. Bonin stares at Tania’s wound and tells her that he has never seen her before.
Tania answers that she used to stay in her father’s cabin in Trout Lake.
They live in a small village so most of the people know each other.
As Bonin checks which road to take, they are suddenly startled by a man named
Demers who still has no idea of what is going on.
He wonders why one of their neighbor’s tried to bite him. After a while,
he bids goodbye to Bonin and Tania to surprise his family that the prodigal son has arrived.
Real tells Ti-cul that he hears on the radio to wait for help but unfortunately it never
comes so he escapes with his wife and children but unfortunately, they didn’t survive. While Ti-cul
shares that he kills his infected loved ones even against his will.
Bonin and Tania continue their journey and arrive at Gingras Farm.
They check the house if there are things that they can use. Bonin sees mouse traps and puts them
inside his pocket when he suddenly hears a noise in a room. He checks it and finds kittens. Tania
is in the kitchen and hears a noise upstairs. She bravely checks it with an ax on her hand
and finds a young girl named Zoé who is hiding in the room. Tania cleans Zoé’s face and brings
him to Bonin and they continue their trip. Bonin tries to lighten the mood inside the
car while driving by telling jokes that he and his friend Vézina used to enjoy. Zoé and Tania
don’t find it funny though. They rest in a small house in the evening.
In the morning, Tania goes out and takes calls of nature when she suddenly hears a strange scream.
She sees an infected woman so she hides and crawls in the ground with a lot of plants.
Unfortunately, she is captured by the infected. Luckily, Bonin arrives and kills it. Tania talks
nonsense to release her stress which Bonin and Zoé cannot understand clearly. When Tania enters the
car, Zoé tries to comfort her by telling the story of her cousin whom she greatly misses.
When they are about to leave, Demers scares them again. This time, Bonin already gets angry
and shouts at him. After that, Demers warns them that there is something off in Route 8.
Bonin gets out of the car and checks the area. He is very surprised upon seeing that the infected
are making a tower of stacked belongings. It seems like they are doing a ritual. An
old infected sees Bonin so he screams out loud to call the attention of the other infected.
Bonin runs and drives the car as fast as he can. Fortunately, they successfully escape the area.
Bonin arrives at Vézina’s house. Thérèse, Vézina’s mother, slaps Bonin after knowing
that her son didn’t survive. She enters the room then cries while hugging his son’s belongings.
In the kitchen, they talk about the situation outside. Tania suggests that they should go to
the city because the survival rate is high there because the government will surely
protect the cities first before villages. Thérèse, suggests for them to just barricade their windows,
save the ammo and do not make noise so that the infected will not know that they
are there but Céline disagrees, she says that they should leave the house because
the infected probably know that they are there for the house is right on their path.
Bonin scatters the mouse trap that he gets in the farm with the help of Pauline. He mentions
to the group that he knows a bunker where they can hide but they need to pass the farms on Route 8.
All of them gather in the kitchen to plan their trip. They look at the map to check their route.
Meanwhile, outside the house, Céline sees Tania vomiting
and stares at her wound. Tania explains to her that it is only a dog bite.
Pauline and Thérèse go to their food storage to check the foods that they
can bring and decide to bring a jar of pickles, their favorite.
Unfortunately, they cannot bring a lot of food because it will be hard to carry.
Bonin is in a room quietly listening to music while wearing a headset to avoid creating noise
that will signal the infected that they are there. At dawn, Tania goes out downstairs
and finds that the group is talking about her wound. She gets disappointed with Bonin for not
convincing them that it is only a dog bite. During their argument, Thérèse informs them
that she hears that something is trapped on the mouse trap that they scattered outside.
Bonin goes out to check it, after a couple of minutes, they hear the scream of the infected.
They hurriedly go inside to get Zoé then run to the forest as fast as they could.
Tania and Zoé hide near the tree but unfortunately, an infected woman attacks Tania.
When she is about to be bitten by the infected, Zoé successfully stabs it. Tania gets the knife to
Zoé and stabs the infected again. Another infected comes, luckily, Céline comes and stabs it.
Dead people are all over the forest. Luckily,
the team is still complete without injury. Tania hugs Bonin tightly after seeing that he is alive.
They stop over to a river where they clean themselves when suddenly,
Real and Ti-Cul arrive. They feel that they are not welcome to the team so they just pass by.
Thérèse teaches Tania how to use a gun, she successfully learns fast.
The team decides on what route to take. Bonin suggests passing through the field with the
infected because the route to the river will take days for them to arrive in the bunker.
On their way to the field, Demers once again startles them, to her surprise, Tania shoots
him. Demers tells Bonin that he is just playing around then dies. To calm Tania, the team tells
her that Demers is infected so she doesn’t need to worry then Thérèse gets the gun to her.
They quietly pass in the field where the infected are standing around the stack of things.
Unfortunately, an infected hears the noise of Zoé stepping on a can. Real quickly covers Zoé that
scares the infected. The team with the new members Real and Ti-cul successfully passed the field.
Later that evening, they share a jar of pickles
that Thérèse brought. Tania happily gives a part of her food to Bonin.
While the kids express to each other the hardship of killing a person despite their young age.
The team continue their journey to the bunker. It is a long walk and all of
them are already exhausted. Ti-cul notices that Real is not there so he looks for him,
Céline follows and the rest of the team enter an abandoned house where they see
a letter on the table from a survivor warning them to not go to the town for
it is already invaded by the infected. After hearing that, Tania walks out.
Thérèse goes out to look for food while Pauline watches her in the distance.
Bonin checks the area and sees human bones.
Meanwhile, Real already transforms as an infected and bites Ti-cul. Céline rushes to
them and kills Real. Bonin and Thérèse hurriedly run towards Pauline after hearing a gunshot.
Unfortunately, Pauline is already bitten in the face by an infected woman who
is in front of her. Thérèse gets the gun and shots the infected woman twice.
Céline shows Ti-cul a picture of her family and tells him how she was trained to be a
strong mother. Afterwards, he kills Ti-cul. She washes her face while bursting into tears.
Thérèse asks Pauline if the pickles that she made are good enough.
After that, Thérèse points the gun at Pauline then kills her while crying.
The team continues their journey. They go to the field covered with snow. They hear a crying baby
and see a woman sitting on the ground. With a mother’s instinct, Céline goes to check on
the woman and sees that the baby is only a toy. They are also surprised to see a tower of stacked
chairs. Céline stabs the woman with her machete then the infected shouts to give signal to others.
After that, they are attacked by the battalion of infected.
Thérèse stays back so Bonin and Zoé can escape. Unfortunately, the infected kill
Thérèse. Céline also stays behind and bravely kills the infected that goes along her way.
Bonin gives Zoé to Tania so they can hide while he is leading the infected away from them.
Tania leaves Zoé inside the tunnel and tells her that she is the strongest of them all
then she goes out to help the others in killing the infected.
Blood splashes out everywhere. Céline kills a lot of infected before she was killed by them.
An infected sees the hiding Zoé. She covers her ears and closes her eyes
in fear. When she opens her eyes, she sees an infected screaming in front of her. Luckily,
Tania arrives and catches the attention of the infected near Zoé by playing her piano
then the infected people run toward her. Zoé is once again left in the dark tunnel.
After a short while, Zoé goes out to look for the team.
She enters the bunker and sees Bonin who is about to kill himself. Unfortunately, Bonin
is already bitten by an infected. He tells Zoé to look for Tania so that she will not be alone.
Before killing himself, Bonin utters funny jokes for the last time that makes Zoé smile.
Zoé goes out and looks for Tania while carrying a gun.
She bravely goes to the forest and sees Tania’s piano on the ground. She drops the gun and carries
the piano. She keeps on searching but doesn’t find anything. She enters the forest then the field.
She follows a yellow lane on the road. When she reaches Route 113, she takes a rest while playing
with a lizard on her hand. Suddenly she hears a sound from afar. It is a sound from a race
car. A racer wearing white suit goes down the car and checks if Zoé is infected. He is the
same racer that we saw in the first part of the movie who was kissing a staff. Zoé warns him to
not continue on the road and go in the opposite direction then she rides the car with the racer.
The movie ends with the newly infected Bonin and Tania
standing in front of a tall tower of stacked chairs with a parrot.