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Boyd's just settled into his life of failure when a rambling loon by the name of Colqhoun stumbles in with a horror story; he was part of [[No Party Like a Donner Party|a party of six pioneers who found themselves trapped in a snowstorm. When they ran out of rations, they ate the pack animals. When those were gone, they ate their leather clothing. When those were gone, one of them starved to death. But instead of burying him... they ate him]]. A few weeks later, they ate the next one who died of starvation... and found themselves looking at each other oddly...
Colqhoun begs them to come rescue whoever may still be alive, and the seven residents of the fort agree, out of boredom as much as anything else. But when one of them is hurt, Colqhoun wakes him up licking the wound...
Essentially, it's a ''[[Wendigo]]'' story filmed with a morbid sense of humor about [[Manifest Destiny]], [[I Did What I Had to Do]], and the varied joys of [[Black Comedy]]. The soundtrack absolutely cements its ambiguous character, ranging from a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHVXAMVC53M carefree organ piece underpinned with a dissonant string part], to a simple string dance piece which is played during a strangely funny murder scene.
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* [[The Alcoholic]] - Major Knox.
* [[Anti-Villain]] - {{spoiler|Col. Hart at the end.}}
* [[Artistic License Gun Safety]] - ''Private'' Reich has to remind ''Captain'' Boyd not to point a loaded rifle at him. A nicely subtle way of reinforcing how useless Boyd is as a soldier.
* [[Author Tract]] - The writer, the director, and the leading actor are vegetarians, and take every chance they get to show their disgust of meat. A constant theme is comparing the flesh of animals to the flesh of humans. However, [[Tropes Are Not Bad|the honesty of that disgust enhances the horror beautifully]].
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* [[The Stoner]] - "The over-medicated Private Cleaves".
* [[Teach Him Anger]] - Ives to Boyd. Which ends in {{spoiler|a very bloody [[Pygmalion Snapback]]}}.
* [[Took a Level
* [[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]] - Boyd at the beginning of the movie. He, however, doesn't exactly [[Playing Possum|fight his way out]].
* [[Word of God]] / [[Shrug of God]]: Pertaining to the identity of the villain. Did Reverend Colqhoun take Colonel Ives' identity after killing him? Or was he Ives all along? Director Antonia Bird says Ives ''is'' his real name, and the Reverend was a false identity. Conversely, screenwriter Ted Griffin has literally said he doesn't know one way or the other, and that the audience can make up their own minds.
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