It struggles to meld satire and atmospheric horror, but Antonia Bird's 1999 cannibal Western is endearingly unconventional. Robert Carlyle's man-munching works well as a metaphor for the rapacious consumption of the North American continent during the frontier days and Guy Pearce's young soldier tempted by the forbidden flesh is impressively controlled.
DVD Extras:
Trailer, costume designs, set designs, deleted scenes, three commentaries.The basics are well covered, with plenty of original design work and excised scenes. But the best features are the commentaries: Robert Carlyle (rather sparse), writer Ted Griffin and actor Jeffrey Jones (chatty) and, the pièce de résistance, Antonia Bird and co-composer Damon Albarn. Thepair discuss the obstacle-strewn production in detail: apparently the final straw came when fake blood supplies ran out - a bit of a downer on a cannibalism flick.
