Wendigo tells the tale of George (Jake Weber) his wife Kim (Patricia Clarkson) & their young son Miles (Erik Per Sullivan) who are on their way to an isolated house deep in the snowy woods not too far from New York City for the weekend, however tragedy strikes almost immediately as they run into a deer & badly injure it. It seems that three hunters had been tracking the deer for 18 hours & one of them, Otis (John Speredakos), is rather annoyed at George for wounding his prey & worse still breaking it's antler which is worth a fair bit of money. George manages to keep the situation under control & is glad to get to the house, they all spend some quality family time together but inbred redneck Otis still seems to be holding a grudge. Miles is also told by a spooky local (Lloyd Oxendine) that an evil spirit called Wendigo is out there, somewhere in the dense, hostile woods waiting to be called upon...
Edited, written & directed by Larry Fessenden I personally didn't think to much of Wendigo. The script doesn't know what it wants to be, this is as much of a family bonding drama as it is horror. The Wendigo creature that the title refers to doesn't appear until 10 minutes before the end & until that point has no relevance to the story except as some local legend, it isn't really a monster indiscriminately killing innocent people so forget about any high body count as only one person dies for sure & no-one actually dies on screen. The film is painfully slow at times & virtually nothing happens, family drive to isolated house, kill deer, annoy local idiot & that's about it! There are very few character's, only four main ones, the dialogue isn't that interesting & it takes itself far too seriously for it's own good. I just found the whole thing boring, dull, uneventful & a bit of a waste of 90 minutes of my life which I will never get back. Wasn't keen on the nothing ending either.
Director Fessenden does a good job at creating a nice atmosphere throughout with the nice snowy, desolate, remote & bleak locations & they certainly would make a great location for a good horror, unfortunately this isn't it. It has the look of The Blair Witch Project (1999) about it, woods, jerky hand held camera movements & a certain documentary style & feel to it. The Wendigo creature is barely seen & when it does make an appearance at the end it looks like a man in a deer suit running through the woods, then again that's probably what it was. Forget about any gore, a dead deer, some chopped up deer meat, someone is hit with a hammer & that's yer lot.
Technically Wendigo is alright & has a certain unique style about it, but then so did The Blair Witch Project & look at how many people hated that. I personally didn't think the acting was up to much & Weber in particular seems totally uninterested & lifeless.
As far as I'm concerned Wendigo is another low budget boring piece of crap that was as exciting as watching paint dry, what's wrong with good old fashioned exploitation, monsters, blood, gore, murder & off beat likable character's? Horror film fans might want to give it a go but even they might find the whole thing rather tame & flaccid. I did like the end credits though as they scrolled up over some nice blue silhouette's of trees as flakes of snow fall...
Edited, written & directed by Larry Fessenden I personally didn't think to much of Wendigo. The script doesn't know what it wants to be, this is as much of a family bonding drama as it is horror. The Wendigo creature that the title refers to doesn't appear until 10 minutes before the end & until that point has no relevance to the story except as some local legend, it isn't really a monster indiscriminately killing innocent people so forget about any high body count as only one person dies for sure & no-one actually dies on screen. The film is painfully slow at times & virtually nothing happens, family drive to isolated house, kill deer, annoy local idiot & that's about it! There are very few character's, only four main ones, the dialogue isn't that interesting & it takes itself far too seriously for it's own good. I just found the whole thing boring, dull, uneventful & a bit of a waste of 90 minutes of my life which I will never get back. Wasn't keen on the nothing ending either.
Director Fessenden does a good job at creating a nice atmosphere throughout with the nice snowy, desolate, remote & bleak locations & they certainly would make a great location for a good horror, unfortunately this isn't it. It has the look of The Blair Witch Project (1999) about it, woods, jerky hand held camera movements & a certain documentary style & feel to it. The Wendigo creature is barely seen & when it does make an appearance at the end it looks like a man in a deer suit running through the woods, then again that's probably what it was. Forget about any gore, a dead deer, some chopped up deer meat, someone is hit with a hammer & that's yer lot.
Technically Wendigo is alright & has a certain unique style about it, but then so did The Blair Witch Project & look at how many people hated that. I personally didn't think the acting was up to much & Weber in particular seems totally uninterested & lifeless.
As far as I'm concerned Wendigo is another low budget boring piece of crap that was as exciting as watching paint dry, what's wrong with good old fashioned exploitation, monsters, blood, gore, murder & off beat likable character's? Horror film fans might want to give it a go but even they might find the whole thing rather tame & flaccid. I did like the end credits though as they scrolled up over some nice blue silhouette's of trees as flakes of snow fall...