Among Men: Ravenous (dir. Antonia Bird, 1999)
“You’re no hero.”
Ravenous is one of the great horror movies about masculinity, and this is its first spoken line of dialogue. By the time we get there, we’ve absorbed a whole life’s worth of information about “heroism,” and what men do to achieve it. We know that being a hero is not something to want.
Boyd (played by Guy Pearce) is our protagonist, our…