![]() Boyd has barely had time to settle in at the sparsely-populated outpost when weary traveler F.W. Boyd's commanding officer General Slauson (John Spencer), unsure whether to punish or reward him, reassigns him to the Sierra Nevada to keep him out of sight, out of mind. Boyd became an accidental hero when he played dead during battle and was hauled behind enemy lines with his really-dead comrades. Guy Pearce plays John Boyd, a cowardly soldier fighting in the Mexican-American war. What the two works do have in common is that they're both stories about people on the edge of civilization, goaded by supernatural forces to devour their fellow man. Released in 1999, the film's genre is just as hard to pin down as that of "Yellowjackets" - "Ravenous" oscillates from horror to bemused comedy, sometimes in the same scene. ![]() "Ravenous," directed by the late Antonia Bird. ![]() Fear not, antler queens, because there's a movie out there perfect to tide you over. ![]()
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