Out of the night comes F.W. Colqhoun (Robert Carlyle), a Scottish immigrant with a dread tale of cannibalism amongst travellers lost in the mountains not that far away.
The Fort's First Nation scout warns of The Wendigo: what a man who has eaten human flesh becomes but nonetheless an expedition to the caves is organised.
No good will come of this.
CW: cannibalism
The late Antonia Bird plays with genre mashup and gives us an occasionally blackly comic horror Western.
There's a dash of supernatural that makes the cannibalism more like vampirism and various of the Fort's characters are despatched in bloody ways.
The soundtrack as odd and jarring while Carlyle and Pearce do performances that almost seem like they're from two different genres. It's messy and very disjointed in a couple of places with that "missing a scene because SUDDENLY we're here" feeling.
Mildly disappointing but unusual 5/10.