FilmRBody Horror Psychological Folk Horror

Raw2017

Name: Raw
Genre: Body Horror, Psychological, Folk Horror
Released: 2017-03-10
Rating: 7.2

“What are you hungry for?”

Directed by Julia Ducournau

7.2

Crypt Score

Blended from 4 sources

IMDb 6.9Rotten Tomatoes 92%Metacritic 81TMDB 7.0

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Year

2017

Runtime

98 min

Box Office

Budget

$3,500,000

Revenue (worldwide)

$4,100,000

Domestic

$514,870

🏆 25 wins & 45 nominations total

The premise

Stringent vegetarian Justine encounters a decadent, merciless, and dangerously seductive world during her first week at veterinary school. Desperate to fit in, she strays from her principles and eats raw meat for the first time. She soon experiences terrible and unexpected consequences as her true self begins to emerge.

Horror Vault's take

When a sheltered vegetarian freshman arrives at a prestigious veterinary school, the brutal hazing rituals force her to abandon the strict dietary principles she has followed her entire life. What begins as a desperate need to belong quickly spirals into something far darker and more primal, as cravings she cannot explain begin to consume her from the inside out. Julia Ducournau's debut feature is a ferociously confident piece of body horror that uses flesh and hunger as a lens for examining identity, desire, and the chaos of self-discovery. Expect to be disturbed — and to think about it long after the credits roll.

Content: Graphic Depictions Of Cannibalism, Body Horror Imagery, Raw Meat Consumption, Sexual Content, Hazing And Humiliation, Brief Self-Harm Imagery