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After a brutal hazing ceremony forces this young vegetarian to eat meat, she develops an insatiable hunger for flesh that begins to consume her. Raw is as much an intense body-horror (not for the squeamish) as it is an astute psychological drama.
- Alexis Julemont
- Female Director, Julia Ducournau
Oct 8, 2021 · Justine’s grisly eating habits lead to a switch in heavy meat-eating (cooked and raw) with a ravenous and insatiable hunger that distracts her from school, her growing friendship/relationship...
- List Writer
Alexia faints, and Justine picks up the finger, tastes the blood, and starts eating it. Alexia wakes up to find Justine doing this but later tells their parents that her dog, Quicky, ate it. The next morning, Alexia takes Justine to a deserted road, where Alexia jumps in front of a car, causing the two people in it to crash into a tree.
Mar 17, 2017 · But lest we bury the lede for too long, Raw is also an abrasively gross film throughout. As you might expect from a film about a different kind of carnivore, Ducournau adorns the film’s violent setpieces with unfussy photography, hardly shying away from the repulsive nature of Justine’s awakening.
- Boundary-Pushing Gore
- New French Extremity
- The Best Pro-Vegetarian Horror Movie Since The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
After the 2000s-era “torture porn” craze, it might seem unlikely that a horror film’s depiction of gore could still have the ability to shock. The slew of grisly Saw sequels numbed horror audiences to excessive portrayals of blood and guts. But with Raw, Ducournau managed to bring back the shock factor of gore. The movie’s graphic content was highl...
The blood-soaked terror of Raw earned Ducournau a spot alongside directors like Gaspar Noé and Alexandre Aja in discussions of “New French Extremity.” New French Extremity is a term coined by Artforum’s James Quandt to refer to a 21st-century French film movement seemingly determined to break every remaining cinematic taboo. In the case of Raw, the...
Raw’s use of a cannibalism storyline to satirize the meat industry is reminiscent of Tobe Hooper’s 1974 slasher masterpiece The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. In the opening scenes of Hooper’s classic, it’s established that the Hardestys have profited from slaughterhouses for years. Supply-and-demand for the flesh of sentient beings consistently provide...
- Ben Sherlock
- Staff Writer
Mar 28, 2022 · The lurid film follows a young vegetarian named Justine (Garance Marillier) who attends veterinary school where she tastes meat for the first time and develops a craving for flesh — including human.
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Apr 4, 2017 · Eat as much meat as you can before you settle down into a theater seat and watch Julia Ducournau’s feature-length directorial debut, Raw, because it’s a dish that may give you pause for...
