History Film / Raw

Has no connection whatsoever to the series ''Series/{{Raw}}''.

* BodyHorror: a source of a large part of the horrific elements of the film.

* WildTeenParty: the college/vet school version. Expect an underground location, students getting heavily intoxicated, nudity and [[APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy sex in the corners]].

''Grave'' (English title ''Raw'') is a Franco-Belgian horror film released in 2017[[note]]it was presented at the Cannes festival in 2016.[[/note]] and the debut work of Creator/JuliaDucournau. It tells the story of Justine (Garrance Marillier), [[TeenGenius a 16 year old girl entering vet school,]] which her older sister Alex (Ella Rumpf) also attends. Like the rest of her family, she's a vegetarian. What she didn't know was that her new school had a long tradition of hazing the freshmen, which she finds quite unpleasant, unlike her roommate Adrien (Rabbah Naït Oufellah) who just goes with it uncaringly. It becomes even more unpleasant when all freshmen are ordered to eat a raw rabbit kidney.

''Grave'' (English title ''Raw'') is a Franco-Belgian horror film released in 2017[[note]]it was presented at the Cannes festival in 2016.[[/note]] and the debut work of Julia Ducournau. It tells the story of Justine (Garrance Marillier), [[TeenGenius a 16 year old girl entering vet school,]] which her older sister Alex (Ella Rumpf) also attends. Like the rest of her family, she's a vegetarian. What she didn't know was that her new school had a long tradition of hazing the freshmen, which she finds quite unpleasant, unlike her roommate Adrien (Rabbah Naït Oufellah) who just goes with it uncaringly. It becomes even more unpleasant when all freshmen are ordered to eat a raw rabbit kidney.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The opening scene where Justine's mom lashes out on a restaurant employee for letting a meat ball slip into her daughter plate. She appears as a slightly obnoxious StrawVegetarian, but... [[spoiler: TheReveal shows that she has knowingly maintained her daughters on a very strict vegetarian diet because cannibalism is [[ItRunsInTheFamily familial]]. A second foreshadowing happens when Justine bites off the lip of a fellow student. [[spoiler: It foreshadows the origin of her father's lip scar.]]

* VoluntaryVampireVictim: At the end, [[spoiler:Justine's father]] opens his shirt to show several ragged scars where he had previously allowed [[spoiler:his wife]] to feed on him, as a way of demonstrating that [[spoiler:his daughters' cannibalistic cravings are [[ItRunsInTheFamily inherited]].

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The opening scene where Justine's mom lashes out on a restaurant employee for letting a meat ball slip into her daughter plate. She appears as a slightly obnoxious StrawVegetarian, but... [[spoiler: TheReveal shows that she has knowingly maintained her daughters on a very strict vegetarian diet because cannibalism is InTheBlood]]. A second foreshadowing happens when Justine bites off the lip of a fellow student. [[spoiler: It foreshadows the origin of her father's lip scar.]]

* ImAHumanitarian: Justine starts out just liking meat in general, but [[spoiler:eating her sister's accidentally cut-off finger]] awakens her taste for human flesh. [[spoiler:It turns out it's InTheBlood.]]

** [[spoiler:And so does [[InTheBlood her and Justine's mom]].]]

* VoluntaryVampireVictim: At the end, [[spoiler:Justine's father]] opens his shirt to show several ragged scars where he had previously allowed [[spoiler:his wife]] to feed on him, as a way of demonstrating that [[spoiler:his daughters' cannibalistic cravings are InTheBlood]].

* ManlyGay: Adrien.

Has no connection whatsoever to the series ''Series/{{Raw}}'' or the video game ''VideoGame/{{Grave}}''.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The opening scene where Justine's mom lashes out on a restaurant employee for letting a meat ball slip into her daughter plate. She appeared as a slightly obnoxious StrawVegetarian but... [[spoiler: TheReveal shows that she has knowingly maintained her daughters on a very strict vegetarian diet because cannibalism is InTheBlood] ].A second foreshadowing happened when Justine bits off the lip of a fellow student. [[spoiler: It foreshadows the origin of her father's lip scar.]]

!Tropes featured in ''Raw''

* InterruptedIntimacy: Twice. Justine walks on Adrian getting a blow job and later on him watching porn. [[spoiler:The second time, it results in them having sex.]]

* ThousandYardStare: Justine finds Alex half-catatonic [[spoiler:after she killed and ate Adrian.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The opening scene where Justine's mom lashes out on a restaurant employee for letting a meat ball slip into her daughter plate. She appeared as a slightly obnoxious StrawVegetarian but... [[spoiler: TheReveal shows that she has knowingly maintained her daughters on a very strict vegetarian diet because cannibalism is InTheBlood]]; a second foreshadowing happened when Justine bits off the lip of a fellow student [[spoiler: it foreshadows the origin of her father's lip scar]]

* IAmAHumanitarian: Justine starts out just liking meat in general, but [[spoiler:eating her sister's accidentally cut-off finger]] awakens her taste for human flesh. [[spoiler:It turns out it's InTheBlood.]]

* ThousandYardStare: Justine finds Alex half-catatonic [[spoiler:after she killed and ate Adrien.]]
* WildTeenParty: the college/vet school version. Expect an underground location, students getting heavily intoxicated, nudity and [[APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy sex in the corners]].

* EnvironmentalSymbolism: the vet school setting. A grey, decrepit environment full of wild students and animals (living or dead). It symbolised the awakening of Justine to her animal urges (sexual or diet-related).

* ITasteDelicious: As she fights an urge [[spoiler:to have a bite of Adrien's neck during sex]], Justine settles on biting her own arm behin his back.

* KilledOffScreen: Gros Quick, the sisters' dog, is implied to be put down (and later shown dead) after [[spoiler:Alex claims that he was the one who ate her finger to cover for her sister.]]

* PsychologicalHorror: Despite the theme, there is actually very little gore in the film, and it's never gratuitous. The focus is mainly on Justine's internal turmoil and attempts to fight back her own nature, but also to adapt to her new environment as she's much younger than the other students.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: Justine's mom has good reasons to maintain her and her daughters on a very strict vegetarian diet]]; and when Justine bits off the lip of a fellow student [[spoiler: it foreshadows the origin of her father's lip scar]]

* ThousandYardStare: Justine finds Alex half-catatonic [[spoiler:after she killed and ate Adrien.]]

** [[spoiler:Alex is a cannibal as well.]]
** [[spoiler:And so is [[InTheBlood her and Justine's mom]].]]

''Grave'' (English title ''Raw'') is a Franco-Belgian horror film and the debut work of Julia Ducournau. It tells the story of Justine (Garrance Marillier), [[TeenGenius a 16 year old girl entering vet school,]] which her older sister Alex (Ella Rumpf) also attends. Like the rest of her family, she's a vegetarian. What she didn't know was that her new school had a long tradition of hazing the freshmen, which she finds quite unpleasant, unlike her roommate Adrien (Rabbah Naït Oufellah) who just goes with it uncaringly. It becomes even more unpleasant when all freshmen are ordered to eat a raw rabbit kidney.

* MoralEventHorizon: Alex has crossed it long ago, considering [[spoiler:her method to "find her food" (jumping in front of cars so that the passengers are killed in the ensuing accident and she can "help herself").]]