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Raw (2016)

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Rayting:   7.0/10 61.1K votes
Country: France | Belgium
Language: French
Release date: 20 April 2017

An innocent teenager, studying to be a vet, develops a craving for human flesh.

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trublu215 7 March 2017

Raw is the latest horror film that has become the target of (almost) universal acclaim. The question remains as to why, considering the fact that Raw is just a schlock fest attempt at shock value that grossly (both literally and figuratively) underwhelms. The film chronicles a teenage vegetarian who attends a boarding school for the veterinary arts and is then subjected to a grisly accident that costs her her finger...and her sanity. As the film progresses, it becomes more and more apparent that this young girl is developing an sensational lust for sex and human flesh directly borough on by her unfortunate mishap.

The film falls into the category of attempted shock and fails to really shock you. It parades an abundance of sex and gore on screen but none of it holds any weight. The violence and gore that ensues becomes a rote exercise in the type of horror that this past decade has been known for: a big build up to a no nothing pay off. It is about as frustrating as it could get when it comes to satisfying. Much in the vein of Salo: 120 Days of Sodom and last year's The Neon Demon, Raw delivers very lightly and makes promises it can't deliver. The screenplay is boring and under written and features a couple memorable moments surrounded by a whole lot of blood drenched fluff that is brought out by some gorgeous cinematography.. It is woefully unsatisfying even to the most hardcore of horror fans.

Overall, Raw is yet another horror movie that feels a little more hyped up than it ought to be. Instead of living up to it's potential, the film falters under the pressure which is frustrating considering this is a very original idea. Overall, I felt let down by Raw and I really wanted it to live up to the hype that it brought on when it was making festival runs. Instead, we get a film that feels half baked even if the presentation of it looks very nice.

missraze 26 June 2017

Fmovies: Now I've said in other reviews that I don't mind gross, bestiality, disturbing in films I watch. As long as it's not gross or sexual just for shock factor. However this was the most boring, unsexy, uncool, stupid movie I've seen in a while. I went from excitedly clicking on it and downloading and nibbling fries, to wondering what I'm gonna wear tomorrow. Once she started getting cannibalistic and going ballistic, ironically the movie got boring, haha. I'm sure that's when the movie was supposed to get exciting but I don't understand what her problem is, really. An hour, 15 minutes in, with 20 mins left, I don't understand yet why she's eating meat so obsessively, particularly raw unclean meat, and human meat? Other than the cliché insufficient excuse: "because she's losing it." OK, I get that, but WHY. I can infer all day, but what about doing your job as a script writer and filmmaker to answer every question your movie raises? What about an end goal? Was the purpose just to subject me to images that would damage my psyche? Why would someone do that? I mean, you learn how to answer a thesis in high school...maybe these filmmakers didn't go to high school.

See there's a ton of similar movies, even in France, about carnivorous self-harm and the pathology behind it is explored in the film. Even if the movie sucks in general the main idea was addressed. Whether the person hates their self, is being pressured, or is trying to get closer to their self, or is traumatized, or changing into a freaking werewolf like in Ginger Snaps, the reason someone breaks down mentally to the point where they start picking at their skin like it's infected is explained. Here, I don't know, the only explanation was from the university nurse or someone: "It must be food poisoning." So this movie is basically exaggerated vegan propaganda, or anti-vegan satire, or? What?

This movie is like Ginger Snaps meets Black Swan, except Black Swan is a bit tame and inhibited, but still manages to present itself as dark. This movie went way beyond the line Black Swan did with the gore and sexual scenes, and still was not dark nor scary, not even with that blasphemous rap song that apparently was helping her "transform" into a ravenous lust bot.

The only thing good about this is the attempt to link the location to the psychosomatic downfall of the main character. I think the university setting wasn't for just any reason. Like The Shining, the location drove him mad. It forced him to mentally cave into himself because he had no distractions in such a desolate place as that hotel, and once he was distracted he lost it. Here, she loses her mind at the university. She's without her controlling mom for the 1st time, so she's having separation anxiety, and her older sister is a piece of **** anyway as she didn't even welcome her to the school or protect her, nothing. All her sister does is act as a catalyst to the main character's internal fray. It shows how ****ed up hazings are and what trying to fit in away from home for vulnerable young people can do if you don't have a strong value system. She did not have such, she had her mom forcing ideas like not eating meat down her throat which is why she was able to literally get meat shoved down her throat by her second-in- line guide, her older sister, who is sick in the head. Maybe she wants to relate to her older sister, connect to her, by involuntarily becoming like her, to cope with being

billcr12 14 December 2017

I do not know how this garbage is receiving a 7 rating on IMDB. RT is also giving mostly positive reviews. I must have seen a different movie. Two sisters are vegetarian students at a veterinarian school which was also attended by their parents. The younger girl is subjected to some vicious hazing by older students. As it goes along, the sisters fight and this leads to a ridiculous encounter between the two as the older girl bikini waxes the younger one in a very private area. A dog in the room checks out the pre shave spot. I am not making this up. Even more bewildering is the fact that this stupidity was written by a women. A few unnecessary night club scenes with blaring music are included, making the film even more excruciating. Take my advice and avoid Raw like the plague.

ctowyi 18 March 2017

Raw fmovies. We have all seen the umpteen coming-of-age or sexual awakening story, but when is the last time you saw a becoming-a-cannibal story? This is one incredibly muscular piece of filmmaking, marrying visual poetry with slow-burn horror into one potent and delectable dish. Debut writer-director Julia Ducournau knows exactly what she wanted to do and did it, and the resultant film is a different breed of horror with no cheap jump scares and with the camera never flinching from all body and animal horror.

During a screening at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival, some viewers received emergency medical services after allegedly fainting from the film's graphic scenes. IMHO, this notoriety does it a huge disservice. Perhaps the viewers went into the cinema with an empty stomach or have a weak disposition for copious blood and body horror because Raw is never tacky or cheesy in its depiction of its terror. Ducournau knows the medium well and employs a plethora of aesthetics to drive the terror home. The cinematography is fluid and complicit in the sinister going-ons; it somehow manages to glide seamlessly to places we don't want to go (under the bed covers, in a toilet where blue and yellow collide) and see stuff that we don't want to see (rashes on young flesh). I am never ever going to forget a scene in which a poor horse get tranquillised, a mouth restraint slapped on it, gets tied up and turned upside down in a harness. It was spine-chilling and my mind kept whispering prayers that it will be fine. The takes are long and languid, but purposeful and place us in the thick of things. It felt like I was given full access to an accident site and I was led to study in closed-up the twisted metal and the mangled bodies. I couldn't look away even though I wanted to. The shots are superbly lighted, disconcerting and symbolically rich. Ogle in amazement as the camera follows Justine in the first night of hazing to a make-shift discotheque that resembles hell itself.

IMHO the genius of this lean and mean film is that it manages to make us feel for Justine. We feel the revolting disgust churning inside her as she, a lifelong virginal vegetarian, is forced to swallow a raw offal from a rabbit. The angry crimnson rash that flares up all over her is a manifestation of her disgust, but soon it awakens her cannibalistic core. In Garance Marillier, Ducournau has found the perfect Justine. Her transformation arc is magnificent and her multi-layered performance is career-defining. I still cannot forget the scene of her jiving sexily in front of the mirror, becoming aware of herself sexually. She exudes an animalistic energy so thick and heavy, she fused the scenes together in absolute dread. Her eventual deflowering scene, coupled with the birth of her cannibalistic leanings, is presented in total nerve-wrecking literalness.

Raw isn't for everybody. I wouldn't even say a horror fan will like it. It has an art-house feel to it that may turn some people away. But it is a bold film, sublimely realised, erotic, feral, primal and it will play on your senses long after it is over.

ryanpersaud-59415 29 June 2017

I heard the hype. How this film was "so horrific" that people left midway through the film after being so repulsed, they were physically ill. I went in with the - negative - expectation that this was going to be a gore fest. SPOILER: it's not. What we have here is a particularly grisly, but effective coming of age story, a genre the French have a penchant for. For a film about cannibalism, it's surprisingly subtle and is generally a slow burn that builds tension well. I found the performances uniformly strong, especially from Garance Millier. Her transformation from shy and socially awkward to animalistic and unhinged is a joy to watch. The atmosphere is well developed, especially those incredibly effective party scenes that perfectly capture what it's like at a wild college party. And I have to say, for such a twisted film, it's surprisingly sexy. Again, thank the French.

No, it's not for the faint of heart and yes, some of the imagery is quite brutal. It could've have fleshed out - heh - some of the relationships between certain characters better, but overall, I'd recommend this to people with open minds and strong stomachs.

tp-Isle 7 June 2017

Walk outs in film are a dime a dozen, Bad acting , Terrible script or maybe the vibe is all off, it's all part of the Hollywood game. When 20 people walked out of RAW in Paris last year at it's first screening it was for none of these reasons. The reason 20 people walked out and two fainted is because RAW is one of the most intense films to come out of the European state in quite awhile,

The crime of RAW is not that it is provocative it is that has the intelligence to smooth it over with focused direction and smart writing thanks to the helm at both ends, Julie Doucornow in her debut.

Justine,played by an excellent Garance Marillier is a strict vegetarian in first year in veterinarian school On the first night her dorm is raided by senior students and so begins the process of a week long hazing exercise, One afternoon she is forced to eat a raw rabbit kidney. The results are almost immediate as she discovers within herself a craving for meat and as with the title preferring the raw variety. With all these events happening at the same time she struggles to find her place in school. Juggling students, family, teachers with a crippling disease I found my self drawing similarities between this and Brian De Palma's CARRIE.

Justine, at a loss slowly succumbs to cannibalism but you won't see any zombies or Italian inspired cannibals here. The second act leads us to the reasons all those people walked out and missed the payoff and satisfying end. At heart a cannibal film but also and more importantly a story of young woman trying to find her feet and the most blistering of circumstances.

An original film from a first time director and something you can surely sink your teeth into.

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