This provocative stomach churner of a horror movie too often walks an uneasy line between truly horrifying and excessively silly. I will give it points for treating the coming of age and sexual awakening of a young woman in a way I've never seen that particular genre treated before. In "Raw," a young girl coming out of her shell means she develops a taste for raw meat of any kind, and she'll stop at pretty much nothing to get it.
To be fair, it seems to run in the family, as both her sister and apparently mother (in a last minute reveal) have the same tendencies. Gives new meaning to the term "man eaters."
The film tries over time to shock us, and it gets progressively less effective as it ups its own ante. By the time it gives us yet another scene of bacchanalia at a vet school(!), where some random woman is licking the eyeball of some random guy while our protagonist is hunched in the background like a demented savage, practically gnawing on a bone and picking gristle from her teeth, I was chuckling, probably not the reaction I was supposed to have.
Grade: B
To be fair, it seems to run in the family, as both her sister and apparently mother (in a last minute reveal) have the same tendencies. Gives new meaning to the term "man eaters."
The film tries over time to shock us, and it gets progressively less effective as it ups its own ante. By the time it gives us yet another scene of bacchanalia at a vet school(!), where some random woman is licking the eyeball of some random guy while our protagonist is hunched in the background like a demented savage, practically gnawing on a bone and picking gristle from her teeth, I was chuckling, probably not the reaction I was supposed to have.
Grade: B