Ravenous Soundtrack - Colqhoun's Story 

Here's the actual story, if you want it: I suppose I owe you gentlemen a story. We left in April. Six of us in all. Mr. MacCready and his wife, from Ireland. Mr. Janus, from Virginia, I believe... with his servant, Jones. Myself - I'm from Scotland. And our guide... a military man, coincidently. Colonel Ives. A Detestable man... and a most disastrous guide. He professed to know a new, shorter route through the Nevadas. Quite a route that was. Longer than the known one... and impossible to travel. We worked... very, very hard. By the time of the first snowfall we were still a hundred miles from this place. That was November. Preceding in the snow was futile. We took shelter in a cave. Decided to wait until the storm had passed. But the storm did not pass. The trails soon became impassable... and we had run out of food. We ate the oxen... all the horses... even my own dog. And that lasted us about a month. After that we turned to our belts... shoes... any roots we could dig up, but you know there's no real nourishment in those. We remained famished. The day that Jones died I was out collecting wood. He had expired from malnourishment. And when I returned, the others were cooking his legs for dinner. Would I have stopped it had I been there? I don't know. But I must say... when I stepped inside that cave... the smell of meat cooking... I thanked the Lord. I thanked the Lord. And then things got out of hand. I ate sparingly. Others did not. The meat did not last us a week and we were soon hungry again only, this time our hunger was different. More... severe... savage. And Colonel. Ives, particularly, could not be satisfied. Janus was the first to be killed. And then Mr. MacCready. That left Colonel Ives, MacCready's wife, and I alone and I knew that in that company my days were numbered. I'm ashamed to say that I acted in the most cowardly manner. It would have been nobler, I know to have stayed and protected Mrs. MacCready from Ives, but... I was weak. I fled. It was nothing less than pure providence that I arrived here.

what stuns me about this track is the layers. it just delves deeper and deeper into darkness and chaos but beneath it all that jaunty march is still going. genius.

One of my all-time favorite film scores.

Someday, this soundtrack is going to get the props and attention it truly deserves...Ditto for the movie!

This is what madness must sound like, a slow descend into a dark abysal place.

One of the best movie soundtracks EVER,,,how did this gem of a film sink without a ripple?

'You know, Ben Franklin once said Eat to Live, don't Live to Eat...uh...uh?!" One of the most underrated soundtracks out there. Just awesome throughout

This, followed The Cave and The Pit, just shows how incredible - hilarious, eccentric, and terrifying - Ravenous and its soundtrack are.

I love the way the music builds and builds, getting more and more ominous. Truly a great soundtrack to an underrated film.

"Then things got out of hand..." This movie in six words

I walked home one day from a far distance through the forests of Great Falls, V.A. I was listening to this soundtrack on headphones as I traveled. The sky was grey and a storm was on it's way. The music mixed perfectly with the weather and setting where I was. Great music for a journey into the woods...

Good stuff,,,really symbolizes the bleakness the protagnonist was feeling during the Colonel's "recruitment speech" when they are looking out over the wilderness! How this unseen gem of a film isn't better known is a mystery to me!

Eat to Live, Don't Live to Eat.

6/5 stars for the film and 650/5 for the OST

One of the few horror movies that uses a brilliant contrast: in parts, the more horrific the images become onscreen, the more sublime the music becomes!

I was writing a report one night with the tv on and this movie came on. This scene really got my attention and I coulnd't write anymore, I had to watch the whole movie! "I said we had no food, I didn't say there was nothing to eat..."

Best OST EVER !

3:12 God, I want a whole song of just this.

The music begins with a fairly jaunty feel to it but as it progresses the mood gradually darkens. This begins with a somewhat subversive melody being played under the primary melody and than at about 3:15 the secondary melody, which has been building and changing this whole time totally overwhelms the primary melody. This reflects how Colqhoun's expedition began innocently enough and than degenerated into the cave of horrors that Boyd and the rest find. And then Col. Ives finds them...

@pk000 The main instruments used (according to the booklet) are violin, guitar, jew's harp, banjo and squeeze box. Although this track was done largely by Damon Albarn, also using samples.

Movie was good but the soundtrack was phenomenal and this is my fav one on it

This is one of the best pieces of music I've ever heard. The whole soundtrack is phenomenal, which is why I paid through the nose for it. The movie is great, too--even if it treats the subject matter a little too dismissively in parts (like it doesn't know how good it really is). Damon Albarn really is a juggernaut of music.

That must be how hell sounds. I love it!

So chilling, with that guitar especially. It suddenly turns from being an innocent folk-party tune to something sinister, like a disturbing childhood memory almost. Pretty.

My favorite track from this score, all of which I like very much... the underlying rhythm is really kind of hip-hop!

MIND BLOWN. Other day, I had to do a sound design paper, and so listening to the first 20 min leading up to this point, I realized that 1: Not 2 min or so go by without the mention of something consumable. 2: The mood setting music. 3: Every single minute eating/drinking sound greatly amplified. 4: Boyd doesn't speak a full complete sentence until 25 min in. 5: They bring in Colqhoun, warm him up by essentially preparing him as dinner (warm water rub, wrapped, and placed by a fire)

The beginning leading into Ives’ theme Manifest Destiny is twisted and beautiful and I love it

One of my favourite moments in this film. The tension from here on is great. Scary music and of course a GREAT film!

good God what a horrifyingly creepy soundtrack for a film I can just imagine colqhoun listening to this acting all creepy n shit like he does. marvellous score marvellous film. 10/10.

My fav soundtrack of all time. Its just crazy enough, different enough, driving and the build up too.

"Then things got out of hand..." Love this song.

hell yes to this movie and its soundtrack, and to colquhoun and his story. "It was only by sheer providence... that I arrived here..." what a freaking scene. he's gauging them all, mocking them all, while playing the victim....

I love how oddly cheery it is, considering the tale told to it

Eat Prey Love.

This song would go perfect At the Mountains of Madness.....but then again, this song would go great with any psychological horror/thriller film that takes place in the wilderness out out in the tundra.....you know what I mean damn it.

Saw this in the theater. And on VHS. And on DVD. Awesome. And have the soundtrack.

...And then things got out of hand...One of the best soundtracks, Easily of it's era

Great song. This was a favorite film of mine when I was like... 9 or 10 ha ha!

So, back then this resonated with me, however, I certainly couldn't appreciate it like I do now. SO GOOD!

good song, like that the song starts to get more and more disturbed as it plays

Holy CHEESE!!! THIS IS ONE AWESOME MOVIE!!!! I SO CHEESED OUT AS I WATCHED IT

"then things got out of hand....the hunger became more...severe...savage"

The smell of meat cookin, I thanked the lord, I thanked the lord

They don't make comedies like this anymore.

Obdivuju Damona Albarna a Michaela Nymana.Tatranské hory jsou opravdu drsné,zvlášt když nemáte co jíst....!

Love It

1999 -- what a year!

The rubbing sounds and picture are SO apparent, and DAMN if that's not subliminally establishing of the entire movie's cannabalistic theme. Oh, also, the soldier is sharpening his knife in the shot as Colqhoun begins to (and continues) telling his story, the sharpening noises made quite apparent.

"the meat did not last us a week and we were soon hungry again. only this time our hunger was different...more severe...more savage..."

Black comedy has never been the result of Hollywood pussing out and adding levity to a serious horror or vice versa. It's not a popular genre and tends to alienate the majority who prefer one dominant tone at a time. a difficult mix to get right which is why the few that work work brilliantly as ziegoboy said, it's hardly watering down when both elements strengthen the impact of the other. One consistent tone is something that only happens in movies, reality is absurd and awful simultaneously

Haunting and Brilliant.

I love this soundtrack -- it's got to be one of my absolute favorites ever. It's so creepy and awesome

Simply transcendent

it really is a phenomenal work, a capolavoro as the italians would say. If I were a film composer I think this is the music Id given my left arm to create (and they sure would've eaten it)

did the metaphor linking the cannabilsm with the humans need to consume everything no matter the consequence go over everyone's head.. or it just me who sees this?

Amazing soundtrack for a great movie ! Cult Classic !!!

This music makes me want to go hiking in the wilderness with friends, and then eat them.

Thanks for putting this up friend. I adore Ravenous. The soundtrack is amazing

Ives: You should know, that if you die first I'm _definitely_ going to eat you. Question is, if you die first what are you going to do? Bon appétit. The Greatest last line of a film EVER.

This song is a lot like life it starts off jauntily and Merry and then it starts having some strange overtones and then this sad harmony overplays the whole thing bringing to get her this happy sad bizarre thing we know as life

this is so weird but it sounds so good

incroyable ! pas de mot.

Some people arent't fit to be human, you're one of them.

right as rain

check wikipedia article Donner party

I cant seem to find this great movie, life must hate me..:(

Famine or feast, the choice is yours

it takes a while to like it but great soundtrack

And clapping your heels three times ain't sure as hell gonna take you back.

Albarns best work and most don't know it.

"It would've been nobler I know to have stayed and protected Mrs. MacCready from...Ives but....I was weak...I fled...." [I would've been tricked and killed. Dude totally sold this.]

This music makes me want to go hiking in the wilderness with friends, and tell them stories of deranged cannibalism.

RUN!

Brilliant !!!

I like the other version of this. But this is good too. :)

best of the OST, and manifest destiny

I love real music.

OMG YES FOOD PORN

You never hear folk music the same again...ever

after 3:15 you're not in kansas anymore, dorothy.

This ams brutal.

One of the things I didn't understand was the oxen, horses and dog would have lasted six people longer than a month!

best movie evar

Nicely put

The scene in the movie along with this track are fucking EPIC!

YOU ARE WHO YOU EAT!

brilliant !

@moorevayne it certainly was. it's a satirical movie, with subtle themes promoting vegetarianism and feminism.

i own this soundtrack and this is my fave song on it, also theres another song thats similar to this one called manifest destiny, also an awesome song

If you are here commentating you have your head screwed on straight. Fricking love you all..

Epic!

You are who you eat!

Let me tell you. Playing Minecraft to this was terrifying. Then everything changed when the hunger came...

Alfred Packer, and its similar, not the same, and disputable.

At 3:15 when that cello kicks in, I had an eargasm

From the lead singer of Gorillaz

that movie was cool

DDamon Albarn rules !

yeah this music makes me hungry lol

eat to live don't live to eat