In Justine’s family everyone is a vet and a vegetarian. At 16, she’s a gifted teen ready to take on her first year in vet school, where her older sister also studies. There, she gets no time to settle: hazing starts right away. Justine is forced to eat raw meat for the first time in her life. Unexpected consequences emerge as her true self begins to form.
"While filmmakers and audiences tend to gag at the thought of the other C-word onscreen, writer/director Julia Ducournau and her fearless leading lady Garance Marillier launch themselves teeth first into their bloody and occasionally brilliant cannibal horror pic..."
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Sex, drugs and rock & roll. What more could you possibly ask for in your "Fucked-Up-Coming-Of-Age" movies... Cannibalism? No dramas. Raw has got you sorted.
Final rating:½ - I really liked it. Would strongly recommend you give it your time.
An extreme desire for blood and flesh!
Totally unexpected. I had no idea what I'm about to watch. Because usually I do small research of films I watch before the click play. I did not know it was even a French film or a horror. But it was not actually a horror in a sense. Seeing the initial set up, I thought it would be about a freshman medical student. Then things turned out strangely. Like it was decades ago when I was young, I have felt uncomfortable for those intentional film. For this, it felt all real. As the contents, I disliked them. But the film succeeded if that's what it's intended to give to its audience.
It lived up to what the title meant. But on the other hand, I thought it was making fun of vegetarians. You usually...
I have wanted to see this movie for a while, and it did not disappoint. Beautifully shot. Not for the timid. My wife had a hard time with a couple of scenes. Granted, it is a bit of a "gross for gross sake", but I loved every minute of it.
Justine (Garance Marillier) is a fairly robust young vegetarian who has just started attending veterinary school when she is hazed into eating some raw rabbit liver by her popular elder sister Alex (Ella Rumpf) and then unsurprisingly feels sick! Thats just the start of her problems though as it turns out her new roomie in the entirely functional gay lad Adrien (Rabat Nait Oufella) and their first week is going to see them undergo loads of frat-style challenges at the hands of their elders. She develops a nasty looking rash for which she gets some ointment but the rash appears to be symptomatic of something way more worrying. She is developing a taste for meat - and its cooking appears to be entirely optional. Its beyond a craving, and - we...