Want to avoid Mrs Brown’s Boys, The Queen’s Speech and whatever else TV trows at us this Christmastide? Of course there’s the great Ghost Stories for Christmas drama series and re-watching childhood favourites such as The Box of Delights but here we take the snow shovel and dig up some other possible additions for your alternative winter watching on the cold dark nights …
CREEPSHOW (1982) | THE FOG (1980) RINGU (1998) | DEAD SILENCE (2007) THEATER OF BLOOD (1973) | RAVENOUS (1999) DEAD RINGERS (1988) | ONE HOUR PHOTO (2002) INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1978) | THE FLY (1986)
Origin: Ravenous “extremely hungry” is a borrowing from Old French that derives ultimately from the Latin noun rapīna “plunder, robbery, pillage”; the sense shifted in Old French from “plunder” to describe people who are likely to plunder and then to the associated personality traits of plunderers, such as “violent” and “greedy,” and eventually came to mean “hungry.” Rapīna comes from the verb rapere “to seize,” which is the source of words such as rapacious,rapid, rapt, ravish, surreptitious, and usurp. A common misconception is that ravenous is related to raven, the black-feathered bird, but raven is of Germanic origin, from Old English hrǣfn, and may be a distant relative of Latin corvus “raven” and Ancient Greek kórax “raven, crow.” (In addition, despite the similar spelling and meaning, crow is not related to corvus—though crows and ravens are part of the genus Corvus.) Ravenous was first recorded in English in the late 1300s.
“Locusts are ravenous eaters. An adult desert locust that weighs about 2 grams (a fraction of an ounce) can consume roughly its own weight daily. And they’re not picky at all.” - PRANAV BASKAR, “LOCUSTS ARE A PLAGUE OF BIBLICAL SCOPE IN 2020. WHY? AND … WHAT ARE THEY EXACTLY?” NPR, JUNE 14, 2020
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