Purgatory theory.

Each character at the camp is essentially there due to a past sin or vice. Boyd, a coward, Toffler is weak, Hart is obsessed with knowledge without understanding, Reich is wrath, Knox and drunkenness, Cleaves with drugs, George with his embrace of Cleaves, and Martha dedicated to George.

While each is subject to tedium and desolation, they encounter Calhoun/Ives who has embraced evil. He even drags the members into the hell he created to trap them.

He slaughters and Consumes some while enticing and manipulating Knox and Boyd. Boyd, being trapped in the hell embraces evil out of desperation to return to the camp. Knowing it damn him.

The final struggle between Ives and Boyd are not about salvation but the destruction of damnation. Both are damnned. One realizing it must end (Boyd in Blue) and the other attempting to further damnation (Ives in Red) confront eachother in a brutal fight.

When the battle is complete, the only salvation cones to Martha as her only vice is gone. The nature of good has a possibility.

But, the nature of the evil Is not fully defeated as the Stew a la Knox is tasted by General Slausen.


Just my thoughts on the themes of the film.