Ravenous

We are brought into a promotion ceremony for Captain John Boyd (Guy Pearce), who is being celebrated for his heroism while out in the battle field. In his honor, a meal fit for military royalty. HA!

The sight of all that rare meat was enough to make, Me sick! And just GROSS, was the way the other soldiers ravenously devoured the bloody slop, as if none had eaten in many months.

After a few less than encouraging words, from General Slauson (John Spencer). Boyd is given his new post assignment, he is being sent to California’s Fort Spencer.

Upon post arrival we meet the chatty Colonel Hart (Jeffrey Jones) as he describes and introduces us to his company, a mockery of military presence.

One night, a near death stranger shows up from out in the wilderness. The company decides to take him in and try to save him. The next day this victim, Mr. Colghoun (Robert Carlyle) tells a tale of horror, despair and guilt. He admits that he cowardly abandoned a defenseless woman to escape his own presumed fate.

Hart immediately demands they set out to retrieve this woman and bring her back to safety. George (Joseph Running Fox) tries to explain and warn Hart of a native myth - Windigo - which tells of a crazed man that feeds off other men and steals their strength and soul. But Hart dismisses the myth and pushes on with the search.

It’s not long before a bloodbath ensues.

Holy Thin Air! I was beside myself when Boyd’s scurvy ass jumped off the cliff edge leaving Colghoun atop in disbelief!

Oh my god! Can you imagine surviving a trauma, and no one around you believes your story? Then you find out your nightmare will now become your commander. Boyd is about to learn that, there are worse things in life, than to die honorably at war.