Harper (Annabelle Dexter-Jones) is looking to take the photo of the red snake in the fictional Watchatoomy Valley (filmed in Somerset, Va.). She captures a group of men killing a man. She is espied, captured, raped (off-screen) escapes, recaptured, etc. You know the drill. She does meet Bruce Dern and PLOT SPOILER, like everyone else he dies, 7 minutes on the screen.

We know she survives because she is telling the story from a hospital bed.

Do we really need another "I spit on your corpse" light? The acting was good for a bad or trite script. We did get a change-up on the ending but by then I was uninterested.

Guide; F-word. No nudity.

Successful rape/revenge movies follow a simple formula: an innocent woman is subjected to a harrowing sexual ordeal, usually shown in a graphic manner to drive home the horror of the situation, after which she takes revenge on the perpetrators. The viewer derives satisfaction in seeing the villains getting what they deserve at the hands of the wronged female.

Ravage does it all wrong: director Teddy Grennan neglects to show us what makes the film's protagonist, nature photographer Harper (Annabelle Dexter-Jones),so mad (I was unsure whether a sexual assault had even taken place). Harper then proves to be a female McGuyver, getting the better of several men by setting deadly traps, but ultimately fails to settle the score with the ringleader. The film cheats the viewer, and its protagonist, out of the revenge that is so intrinsic to the genre. It's hugely disappointing.

One victim is killed when Harper lowers a packet of bullets into his camp fire, a motorcyclist is decapitated by a wire stretched across a path, Bruce Dern accidentally injects himself with an overdose of drugs and is blasted by a shotgun (off-screen),and in one particularly daft moment, Harper shoots a bloke by a river, the woman having somehow waited underwater to surprise him.

But that last man, the ringleader, remains alive by the end credits. Harper, so resourceful earlier on, makes a really dumb mistake, is captured and sewn up inside the carcass of a cow (yes, you read that right!). It's never explained how she gets free.

4.5/10, rounded up to 5 for the music, which deserves to belong to a much better film.

Imagine being our and about and just minding your own business ... and then being witness to something horrible. Now imagine trying to run away and do the right thing. Report to the authorities. Sometimes it is better to know where you are - and this makes good use of rural areas and what or how people help each other.

So the tension is high and there can be almost not be expected any help from anyone else. At least that should be clear for our main character one may think. But she doe choose to act in certain ways that might frustrate you - understandably. On the other hand, the violence and gore on display will probably please those who are here for that and they won't mind any "logic" issues. And that endind ... I just loved it ... but could not help make certain flaws go away. The main actress is a powerhouse, if only her character would have been a bit more nuanced ... but hey can't have it all, yes?