Nevermore The Raven Effect 12/25 Blu-ray (Rental)
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"Wrestling is such a brutal business, it doesn't surprise people that it attracts sociopaths, fame whores, coke whores, and adrenaline junkies. But why did it attract an artist?" asks Billy Corgan, frontman of The Smashing Pumpkins and wrestling promoter. It is the central question of Nevermore: The Raven Effect, a documentary examining a pivotal shift in wrestling history through the eyes of Scott Levy — Raven — a brilliant, self-destructive performer who helped shape the style and tone of the no-holds-barred ECW, the notoriously extreme promotion known for bloody matches and real weapons. Fired from WCW and WWF, Raven arrived in ECW with a darker, more rebellious energy that electrified fans and helped ignite the 1990s wrestling boom, while backstage chaos — drugs, alcohol and sex — blurred the line between performance and reality. Moving between Raven's present-day reflections and his devil-may-care past, the film charts a wild ride marked by untimely deaths and the shadow of CTE, with interviews from legends including Chris Jericho, Tommy Dreamer, The Sandman, DDP and Rob Van Dam, and moments of tenderness and nostalgia as Raven and his peers look back on what they built.