Ravenous

(1999)

★ 6.8 IMDb · 719 votes

Genres: Adventure, Western, Horror, Comedy, Drama

Year: 1999

Runtime: 101 мин

Country: Czech Republic, Mexico

Director: Antonia Bird

Cast: Гай Пирс, Роберт Карлайл, Дэвид Аркетт, Джереми Дэвис, Джеффри Джонс, Джон Спенсер, Stephen Spinella, Нил Макдона, Sheila Tousey, Билл Брочтруп

Plot

After arriving at his new, remote Army outpost, Capt. John Boyd and his regiment aid a wounded frontiersman who recounts a horrifying tale of a wagon train murdered by its supposed guide – a vicious U.S. Army colonel gone rogue. Fearing the worst, the regiment heads out into the wilderness to verify the gruesome claims.

Captain John Boyd receives a promotion after defeating the enemy command in a battle of the Mexican-American War, but because the general realizes it was an act of cowardice that got him there, he is given a backhanded promotion to Fort Spencer, where he is third in command. The others at the fort are two Indians, George and his sister Martha, who came with the place; Chaplain Toffler; Reich, the soldier; Cleaves, a drugged-up cook; and Knox, who is frequently drunk. When a Scottish stranger named Colquhoun appears and recovers from frostbite almost instantly after being bathed, he tells a story about his party leader, Ives, eating members of the party to survive. As part of their duty, they must go up to the cave where this occurred to see if any have survived. Only Martha, Knox, and Cleaves stay behind. George warns that since Colquhoun admits to eating human flesh, he must be a Wendigo, a ravenous cannibalistic creature.