History Film / Ravenous

* AmbigousDisorder - Private Toffler

* EvilRedhead - [[ExaggeratedTrope Exaggerated]] [[spoiler: When Hart turns wendigo he becomes younger and his hair turns from grey to red. When he dies it [[DyingAsYourself goes back to grey again]]]]

* EvilRedhead - Exaggerated [[spoiler: When Hart turns wendigo he becomes younger and his hair turns from grey to red. When he dies it [[DyingAsYourself goes back to grey again]]]]

* HealingFactor - The effect of the {{Wendigo}}, but with the side effect of HorrorHunger.

* TroubledProduction: They went through a few different key crew members, the weather didn't cooperate, and they didn't have the time/money to shoot a lot of what was in the script, and the screenwriter went back home early in the shooting schedule. Needless to say the actors had to do [[ThrowItIn a lot of improvising.]]

* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor - [[spoiler: Colonel Hart]]

* EvillyAffable - Again, Ives, who manages to make Boyd look absolutely insane by virtue of being so damn convincingly charismatic to everyone else.

* HealFaceRevolvingDoor - [[spoilers: Colonel Hart]]

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Major Knox can possibly qualify, thanks to his AndThisIsFor moment. Or maybe he just need to get sober.

* ItGotWorse: Colqhoun story, and how! The music matches it just brilliantly.

* HoYay - Boyd and Ives got a lot of it, especially since there's no other love interest in sight. [[spoiler: And they end up dying lying on top of each other in a forced embrace...yowza.]]

* TeachHimAnger - Ives to Boyd. Which ends in [[spoiler: a very bloody {{PygmalionSnapback}}]].

* ItGetWorse: Colqhoun story, and how! The music matches it just brilliantly.

* TookALevelInBadass - Boyd spends the entire film as the designated wimp (he even gets a medal of cowardice), until the last 3 scenes when he decides to fight Ives, using all of his new cannibal superpowers.

* BeyondTheImpossible - The final fight was so over the top the production ''ran out of fake blood.''

A drama/horror/black comedy released in 1999, written by Ted Griffin and directed by Antonia Bird. ''Ravenous'' did poorly in theaters, managing only approximately one quarter (~$3 million) of its 12 million dollar budget, but has since become a minor cult favourite. Starred [[{{LAConfidentialGuy]] [[{{Memento}} Pearce]], RobertCarlyle, Jeremy Davies, Jeffrey Jones, David Arquette, Neal [=McDonough=].

A drama/horror/black comedy released in 1999, written by Ted Griffin and directed by Antonia Bird. ''Ravenous'' did poorly in theaters, managing only approximately one quarter (~$3 million) of its 12 million dollar budget, but has since become a minor cult favourite. Starred Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, Jeremy Davies, Jeffrey Jones, David Arquette, Neal [=McDonough=].

* SuicidalGotcha - Messy, and without the common convenient landing spot. Boyd actually jumps off a cliff, falls down through tree limbs and into a PitTrap, breaking the ever-loving crap out of his leg in the process. Also, [[spoiler: the end of the movie, where Boyd lures Ives into a bear trap, which kills them both.]]

* IndulgentFantasySegue - This is probably the only movie ever made where the protagonsit fantasizes about eating David Arquette.

Lieutenant Boyd, a soldier in the Mexican-AmericanWar of the 1840s, has a freak-out when his commanding officer dies in front of him and decides on PlayingPossum. The Mexicans thus load him into a cartful of corpses and (for some reason) taken back to their base. Then some blood drips into Boyd's mouth, giving him an intense adrenaline rush during which he single-handedly captures the enemy command, winning the battle. But everyone realizes (most of) what happened when he throws up at the victory barbecue. He thus gets a MedalOfDishonor and a [[ReassignedToAntarctica Reassignment To Fort Spencer]], a rarely-visited ramshackle mountain pioneer stop in the [[MiddleOfNowhereStreet Middle Of Nowhere]] populated solely by [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits drunks, layabouts and crazies.]]

Lieutenant Boyd, a soldier in the Mexican-American War of the 1840s, has a freak-out when his commanding officer dies in front of him and decides on PlayingPossum. The Mexicans thus load him into a cartful of corpses and (for some reason) taken back to their base. Then some blood drips into Boyd's mouth, giving him an intense adrenaline rush during which he single-handedly captures the enemy command, winning the battle. But everyone realizes (most of) what happened when he throws up at the victory barbecue. He thus gets a MedalOfDishonor and a [[ReassignedToAntarctica Reassignment To Fort Spencer]], a rarely-visited ramshackle mountain pioneer stop in the [[MiddleOfNowhereStreet Middle Of Nowhere]] populated solely by [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits drunks, layabouts and crazies.]]

* StandardRedshirtProcedure - Private Reich again.