h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

A film called 'Ravenous', starring British actor, Robert Carlyle, and Australian actor, Guy Pierce, which was released in 1999 follows a *very* similar story to this one. It's a macarbe, dry and funny black comedy. Army captain trekking in wilderness in 1840's turns up ill and bedraggled at a remote army camp in the Sierra Nevadas - takes members of camp to site where his fellow companions were to have died in extreme conditions, having cannibalised eachother. Attacks his escorts for dinner. Continues to ravage the camp afterwards, having run out of human flesh and having acquired a 'taste for it'. Worth seeing, if you enjoyed this article - you sick bunny

I agree. *Very* similar story, even with the Native American angle - Ravenous makes good use of the Wendigo tales.

I'm gonna have to give this Entry a number of links in the h2g2 Historical Society - at least one in the History of Food & Drink Wing!

http://www.h2g2.com/A261613

Ravenous was one of those films that I have a fuzzy opinion about. I'm not sure whether it was good or not. Was it a comedy of something more serious...?...I think it had something to do whith having the strangest soundtrack I have ever heard.

it was a comedy... a very black comedy that missed it's mark in the states, sadly However, it is having a rather heavy campaign on IFC.

"...sneaky."

"Delicious..."

Two cannibals were sitting by the stream one day. One turns to the other and says, "You don't look too good. Was it something you ate?"

"Yeah," the other replies, "It's my mother-in-law. She doesn't agree with me."