Wendigo

Starring:Patricia Clarkson, Jake Weber, Erik Per Sullivan, John Speredakos, Christopher Wynkoop, Lloyd Oxendine, Brian Delate, Daniel Sherman, Jennifer Wiltsie, Maxx Stratton, Richard Stratton, Dash Stratton, Dwayne Navara, Shelly Bolding, Susan Pellegrino, James Godwin, Daniel Stewart Sherman, Joseph C. Felece
Director: Larry Fessenden, Jeff Winner
Studio: Live / Artisan
Product Type: DVD

Average customer rating:

This Movie SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Need For Myth
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Impressive (little) family suspense drama in the woods
Slowly paced but good

Wendigo
Starring: Patricia Clarkson , Jake Weber , Erik Per Sullivan , John Speredakos , and Christopher Wynkoop
Director: Larry Fessenden , and Jeff Winner
Manufacturer: Live / Artisan
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00006SFJM
Release Date: 2002-12-17

Customer Reviews:

This Movie SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2007-02-15

It had no plot and no point. All it is, is a family running into a creepy white trash stalker who shoots at their house and peeks in the window.had a disapearing indian, which made no since what so ever, and all of the sudden at the near end of the movie, a deer thing that looks like a life size stick doll from "The Blair witch project" shows up. Windigo is actually mentioned 3 times in the whole movie and is actually a bad representation of the legend. Now don't you people get mad at me for stating my own oppinion, I belive that everyone is entitled to their own oppinion, and my oppinion is that this movie sucks.

The Need For Myth.......2006-12-15

This creepy indie film has a family heading out to upstate New York to a friend's cabin to get a bit of a vacation. On their way they hit a deer and earn the ire of a local named Otis. Otis and friend had been tracking the deer for hours. An antler was cracked by the accident making it worth much less. Eventually they manage to leave the hunters behind and make it to the house. The next day they go into town for some supplies and the boy meets a strange Native American who teaches him about the legend of the Wendigo. While not scared at first by the legend, the fear generated by the incident with the hunters begins to plague the boy.

Later, the father is injured while sledding with the boy. The boy gets scared and believes he is chased by the Wendigo. He is found hours later by his mother. Together they set out to find the father. They find him and the boy has another run in with the Wendigo. The action then moves to the hospital where the father receives treatment. The boy sees the Indian again and the film ends. Just stops. That's it.

According to an interview with the writer/director there is no monster in the film. He is trying to show how myths come about to help explain the world. But that doesn't explain the mysterious Indian that no one else seems to see. Most of the acting was pretty good although some of the hospital personnel were poorly portrayed (I especially didn't like the casual and cavalier way one staff member delivered some news and sauntered away). When the film ended I felt a little gypped. There were plot threads I wanted to know more about. We have a main character who may be wounded or dead and we never find out either way. There is so much more to the story and it is just not there.

Some of the special effects were quite good despite the small budget. Some were really quite eerie and creepy. I might have enjoyed the result a little better if I had not seen the interview but I would have still felt it just stopped instead of ending properly. Some good points and some bad. More like a promising first draft than a final. Unfortunately there will be no final coming. This is it. My feelings are mixed about this one so you will have to make up your own mind as to the importance of the flaws.

Suspense.......2006-09-03

This movie is a decent movie that focuses much more on suspense than just having people get killed every 2-3 minutes. The characters are well-developed so that viewers actually care about what happens to them as opposed to generic horror movies.

Impressive (little) family suspense drama in the woods.......2006-08-02

It's true that Wendigo is not exactly a horror movie. I'm not too sure wheter this was the intention or not but the movie delivered to me very much what I was wishing for when I did the rental. Basically, it's a sweet little family drama piece in which a couple and their kid is being confronted by a uncomfortable conflict with some locals. The family is a typical city sorta family that doesn't really behave better then the locals they meet right at the beginning of the film. Later they reach a friend's house they had rented for the weekend.

The plot early on focuses on the family conflict while the pictures give you the idea that there's something special about the deers in the forest. The excellent music and the well shot pictures give you an eerie feeling about them. Maybe not in a dangerous but rather mysterious way.

It's subtle for sure, definetly boring to some, but I was entertained by the believably performed family dynamics. The supernatural stuff is extremly rare and somewhere in the background most of the time. It pulled me in from the beginning to the end. The special effects are so-so but solid. They could have done without any at all to still support the subtle and comfortably haunting feeling of "there's something out there".

If you like a bit of family drama, good actors having interesting dialogues, a bit of indian mystery breeze, it's a recommondation.

Slowly paced but good.......2006-03-07

This is a low budget horror movie that's heavy on the mood and atmosphere and light on the gore. That might be noteworthy except it's also pretty light on the suspense. Even before the weird neighbor gets truly scary we know that there's an Indian spirit running around. We don't exactly know why this Indian spirit is vengeful against sociopathic deer hunters or why it chooses to protect this family which includes the kid from Malcolm in the Middle. It is just there to provide closure after the deer hunter goes from creepy to evil.

This movie does have great moments, however. The music is great. The deer hunter character is very scary in that "I'm just plain folks, don't mind me" way that provides a danger that sneaks up on you. There are moments when the signs of danger become suspenseful, but they get lost in a lot of yacking between Patricia Clarkson and the husband character.

Ultimately, this is a movie for a lazy afternoon. It's not terribly scary or earth-shattering but it works well for low budget.

Average customer rating:

This Movie SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Need For Myth
Suspense
Impressive (little) family suspense drama in the woods
Slowly paced but good

Wendigo [Region 2]
Starring: Patricia Clarkson , Jake Weber , Erik Per Sullivan , John Speredakos , and Christopher Wynkoop
Director: Larry Fessenden
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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