When it was screened at the Toronto International Film Festival this past September, Julia Ducournau's cannibal coming-of-age story Raw attracted widespread media attention, after it was reported that people were fainting during screenings and ambulances had to be called. I can say with assuredness that the level of gore and violence on display in Raw is enough to make even the most ardent fans of violence a little queasy, as it ranks among the best debut films in recent memory.

Justine (Garance Marillier) is about to start veterinarian school, following in the footsteps of her mother, father, and currently enrolled older sister, Alexia (Ella Rumpf). This is also a strictly-vegetarian family, though once Justine settles in and begins to experience the distressing hazing rituals that come for freshmen, she is forced to at one point, eat meat. And when this happens, she begins to develop an inner-frenzy for flesh that, as the plot plays out, results in a series of voracious and disturbing ways.