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Its a disgusting movie, i dont like it, actualky i very hate it and thats all. Not even worth a word.

Low budget amateurish film about cannibalism. The acting is good, but the story and the plot is not making any sense. The depth of depravity is average, but almost interesting. There is a vegetarian girl who switch her taste for some flesh, i would recommend DO NOT EAT WHILE WATCHING THIS FILM. There are a lot disgusting scenes, pointless and stupid. Is highly over rated, and kinda boring. But most of all: DISGUSTING, DISGUSTING, DISGUSTING.

Now I've said in other reviews that I don't mind gross, deviancy, 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 away from home and going against what she knows for social survival. However, as deep a thinker as I am, the movie did NOT address this or state this! Not in script, not in visuals. This is me trying to make the most of time otherwise wasted.

This movie wasn't even disturbing! It was worse than dammit Dogtooth. This was supposed to be scary and unsettling, huh, hence the little zoo porn stunts they keep pulling, the unnecessary gay sex, and of course the gore. But how with all of that, was it still boring?! It was. No idea why some critics have rated this so well, their pretentious egos must be getting stroked watching, rubbing their little chinny chinny chins at how profound and edgy they think this is, haha. It went from being a psychological breakdown of the main character, to some campus zombie f*ck fest, to some family cult.

One girl in the movie said to the main character who was ill: "Use two fingers. It makes the puke come up faster."

I think I'll do that.

People were obviously paid to positively review this film. Do not waste your time. Nothing about this film is scary or gory. The writing was horrible. The acting is horrible. Completely unrealistic film. *spoilers* no version of a medical school, doctor or veterinarian would allow a continued hazing ritual or the continued wear of extremely dirty clothing. No true vegan would allow themselves to eat meat, hazing or not. No gay man would just convert to sleeping with a woman. The goriest part was the main character eating an obvious rubber finger. Anyone who walked out or vomited from this movie did so because it sucked. Not from gore. Any awards this movie won, were paid for. Don't believe the hype. This movie is just trash with no rhyme or reason for anything in it.

Seriously, how have the french been getting away with this?

If a French person makes a movie filled with sex, drugs, and actual cannibalism, it gets called art. If an American makes the same thing it's called exploitation. Just because of the differences in the cinematography. This is some type of cinematic discrimination.

The only thing I got out of this film was insane boredom. It was incredibly poor. How I watched the full film to the end is a mystery in itself. Horrendous script, very poor directing and acting which left a lot to be desired. Scary this film was not. The vast majority of horror films made since the 90's have been simply awful. This is yet one more to add to a long list. Avoid.

What a mindless, horrible scenario. I'm fan of horror movies, but this movie is not horror, it's just horrorible. I'm really wonder how this movie got such high ratings.

There are good movies about cannibalism. Cannibal Holocaust is one. The Green Inferno is another. Bone Tomahawk is yet another. And then there are a couple about real-life cannibal Armin Meiwes. ANY of these are masterpieces compared to the garbage that is "Raw."

Long story short- pointlessly disgusting scenes that have no relevance to the "plot" (what little of one there is), not a single sympathetic character you don't want to die in the first 5 mins of the film, and an unexplained, under-developed plot-line that might as well not exist as it doesn't seem to culminate to any striking or exciting moment throughout the film. If you want a good cannibal movie, try the ones I mentioned and AVOID this refuse at any cost.

I like to watch a horror movie every Halloween. Seeing that Raw had been well received and noted for its goriness, I thought, why not? Well, it is surely one of the worst movies I have seen in recent years. It not only has nothing whatsoever to say about the real world out there, it fails to make sense of its own ludicrous narrative. The themes are abstracted into utter meaninglessness.

George Orwell's 1984 works as an exaggerated dystopia because he explored its themes with Stalin's Soviet Union and Hitler's Germany anchoring his creativity. Julia Ducournau created an impossible world so different from our own that it undermines its own themes by insisting on an incoherent narrative that reduces its disparate, disjointed scenes to a mere shock value that is itself oddly restrained and diluted by the incoherence.

This is glossed-up, crap-for-brains storytelling. The setting is a school for veterinary medicine, and yet, how many of those who rate it a 7/10 or better would trust any of the characters with a houseplant, let alone their pet? In my opinion, The Handmaiden (also 2016) was interesting and very well made without saying much about life in general; a film absorbed in its own world, but coherently so.

I very rarely review movies I hate, so I suppose this one is intriguingly loathsome and therefore not garden-variety dreck, to say all I can for it.

This is not art, this is anti-art, a pathetic, tasteless attempt to create something "unusual".

Oh, and why do I have to write 150 characters about this garbage if there's little to say?

I can imagine a truly raw movie showing the entering into womanhood as a barbaric, cannibalistic act even. This one fails miserably to fulfill its promise though and extracting feces from a cow's ass doesn't do much to help. Actually women are capable of much worse but it doesn't necessarily look gross, sometimes it's even fascinating.

I am sure there are worse movies than this but theese i do not want to see.I must admit i watched just twenty minutes of this crap but that was enough for me,i felt sick in my soul watcing it.I do not want even to explain the story of the movie and i must warn people with a faint heart not to watch it.What kind of sick people makes movies like this?.I do not know much about moviemaking but people who give it ten and saying it is the best movie ever must have a really bad taste and i do not want to ever meet them or the director....ever.Go watch another movie,please.

I'm amazed how some people give this nonsense such high ratings... It's just a messy and ruined piece of junk! ... Undeveloped and meaningless characters, goalless and empty plot, and disasterous ending! Take my advice... Be kind to yourself... And don't waste your time by watching this nothing!!! By the way... Horror lovers find nothing out of it too!!! 0/10

I've never wished I could un-see something more than this film. The images are just so reviling. I've seen my share of grisly violence and eye-opening realism on screen, but some images are just unrealistically disgusting. I kept having to tell myself it was just special effects just to keep my stomach settled. Like another reviewer said, I really wish this movie hadn't been made.