Soft-spoken, timid, devout, and youthful, Private Toffler is Fort Spencer's Christian ideologue. He reads hymns, writes hymns and hums hymns, and prays constantly. He watches over Colqhoun when he first arrives, and he is the most reluctant of the group to head off and find Colqhoun's missing party in the mountains. Toffler is aided often by Reich, who seems to have a brotherly affection for him. When Toffler falls down a rocky slope, Reich is the first to jump to his rescue. Reich helps to clean and bandage Toffler's wounds. Toffler is licked by Colqhoun at night when his wounds are still bloody, and this encounter causes the entire group to become edgy and frightened by this new-found stranger. This meek Private is terrified, chased and eaten by the ravenous Colqhoun at the cave. Jeremy Davies is adorably quirky in this part and his scene at the cave when Colqhoun goes berserk is one of the most riveting scenes in the film.

Major Knox (Stephen Spinella )

Slothful, drunken, and unattentive, Major Knox is a comical figure, a gentleman with a Southern drawl who used to be a veterinarian and acts as the doctor of Fort Spencer. He rarely interacts with the other men of the company, usually being too much in a drunken stupor to care. He completely misses the event of Colqhoun's arrival, and later on, when Boyd returns, he cannot help identify Ives/ Colqhoun whatsoever. He easily accepts the arrival of Ives, and becomes quite comfortable with the Colonel's presence--even commenting that he is a `sentimental fellow' after Ives explains his refusal to eat ribs for dinner. After the discovery of the dead horses and Cleaves, Major Knox mistakes Boyd as the killer and proceeds to knock him out cold. When the real killer shows up--that being the revived Colonel Hart--Major Knox is his next victim. Then it's stew `ala Major Knox'!!

Martha (Sheila Tousey)

Logical, quiet, a Native American Indian and the only woman at Fort Spencer (and in the movie for that matter), Martha is an intriguing character. She leads Boyd into his Fate like a silent angel, and leaves Boyd and Ives at the end, running off into the forest unscathed. She possesses both wisdom and patience and she is a calming female force in this male-oriented struggle. She cannot comfort Boyd when he is obsessing over his obvious disintegration. She bluntly points out that fact that he must die in order to escape his addiction to human flesh. Martha is also the only person at Fort Spencer who survives--the fact that she is a woman is symbolic as well. Since the action takes place only between men `eating each other', this leaves her out of their path of destruction.

George (Joseph Runningfox)

A Native American as well and the brother of Martha, George is the first person to become truly alarmed and wary of Colqhoun when the bedraggled Scotsman first appears. His Indian knowledge and his instinctive connection to Nature may be the reason for this--he watches Colqhoun suspiciously and explains the Wendigo myth to Colonel Hart and Boyd. He bravely joins the group to go find the lost settlers at the cave. When Colqhoun is discovered `licking' Toffler's wound, George is the most adamant to insist that Colqhoun is bound for the rest of the journey. George dies at the cave, shot by Colqhoun as he attacks Colonel Hart.

Private Cleaves (David Arquette)

Wacky, laid-back, and completely unreliable, Cleaves is the Fort's cook. He spends most of his time, however, with George smoking peyote and other `medicinal' delights. He leaves with Martha to pick up supplies, and when he returns with her our other wayward characters are having their adventure by the cave. Boyd is the only one to return, and Cleaves is the first to greet him. Cleaves, along with the others at the fort, completely discounts Boyd's story and assumes that Boyd is the `reason nobody come back.' Cleaves becomes the object of Boyd's `cannibal fantasy' as he dreams vividly of gashing Cleaves' chest open with a knife and eating raw meat from his body! Cleaves, unfortunately, receives this exact treatment later in the movie when Colonel Hart returns (although we don't get to see it)--his body is discovered by Martha, his closest friend, on the Fort's rooftop, his stomach gashed open savagely. David Arquette is great in this part, and he really uses his off-center personality to create a fun yet believable character.

General Slauson (John Spencer)

Haughty and confident, this General is first seen in Mexico when he is awarding Captain Boyd a medal of honor after the battle has been won. At the banquet table, Slauson continues to eye Boyd suspiciously before the later jumps up from the table in disgust to regurgitate what was left in his stomach. General Slauson condemns Boyd to his fate at Fort Spencer in order to get rid of him. Later on, General Slauson appears at Fort Spencer to investigate the disapperance of Colonel Hart's rescue party. He disbelieves Boyd's fantastic story and watches in dismay as Boyd swoons and collapses at his feet with the appearance of Colonel Ives. General Slauson is one of the men Ives wants to win over as a cannibal, and at the end of the movie, with General Slauson greedily sniffing human 'stew ala Major Knox', we are left to consider the possibility that General Slauson may have been a cannibal all along!

Lindus (Bill Brochtrup)

Lindus first appears as the announcer at Lt. Boyd's somewhat tense Mexican-American War ceremonial presentation. Lindus comes across as the ideal lackey--he follows obediantly at the heels of General Slauson throughout the story. He also seems to do most of the military interrogations--his skeptical voice is always heard in Boyd's mind when he experiences a flashback. Lindus' voice encompasses all the incredulity and disdain in which the military establishment regards Boyd. Lindus later arrives with General Slauson at Fort Spencer to investigate Boyd's equally unbelievable story about 'Wendigo." He unwittingly acts as a coat-rack to the elegant wardrobe of Colonel Ives when that later is asked to reveal a miraculously unscathed shoulder. We last see Lindus as he observes the eeriely abandoned Fort Spencer along with Martha and General Slauson. Luckily for Lindus, he is one of the few people to survive the harrowing horror of Fort Spencer. And perhaps in his own closed-minded way, he represents the aloofness and contempt of the civilized world towards the type of outsiders -including cannibals!- that seem to dominate the wilderness of Fort Spencer.