What would your thoughts be if you found yourself starving in the woods, and possibly even possessed?
While we’re still seeking answers to all the mysteries behind Showtime’s Yellowjackets, we’re still left grappling with feeling simultaneous pity, horror and empathy toward our favorite 1996 high school soccer team turned plane crash survivors. Teenagers can make mistakes all the time. They may have a relationship with their boyfriend or flirt with their adult soccer coach. If they were left alone, however, teenagers would be able to make their own decisions. Everywhere Teens left alone in the woods resorting to cannibalism after being left behind by their parents.
A flash forward of a camp-side cannibalistic feeding frenzy shows that these ’90s teens did not have a typical high school experience one bit.
Juliette Lewis, Christina Ricci, Melanie Lynskey and Tawny Cypress star as the adult versions of these high schoolers who, 25 years later, are still haunted by what happened out there in the forest. The psychological thriller pits past trauma against present-day threats like blackmail, poisoning oh yeah, a few pesky murders.