Wendigo
Score George is a high-strung professional photographer who is starting to unravel from the stress of his work with a Manhattan advertising agency. Needing some time away from the city, George, his wife Kim, and their son Miles head to upstate New York to take in the winter sights, though the drive up is hardly relaxing for any of them. George accidentally hits and severely injures a deer that ran onto the icy road; after George stops to inspect the damage, he's confronted by an angry local named Otis who flies into a rage, telling George that he and his fellow hunters had been tracking the deer for some time. An argument breaks out, which leaves George feeling deeply shaken. When George and Kim arrive at their cabin, they discover that it's next door to Otis' property, and they soon find that a dark and intimidating presence seems to have taken over the cottage. Since, when they stopped at a store en route to the cabin, a shopkeeper told Miles about the legend of the Wendigo, a beast from Indian folklore who is half-man, half-deer, and can change itself at will, the child begins to wonder if the creature might have something to do with his family's sudden misfortune.
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Director
: Larry Fessenden -
Casting
: Patricia Clarkson, Jake Weber, Eik Per Sullivan -
Production
: Antidote Films, Glass Eye Pix
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I was thoroughly disappointed with this film. Despite my usual willingness to give movies a chance, this one failed to impress and ended up at the lowest level of disappointment. The movie felt tedious, boring, and at times, even silly. The attempt at creating suspense with quick strobe-shots of the "Wendigo" only elicited laughter from me. As an avid lover of indie films, I expected more, but it felt more like a sophomoric student film. Even the sound quality seemed amateurish. I'm puzzled by the supposed praise from LA Weekly and the New York Times. It's baffling to me how this film managed to garner such positive attention. The acting was subpar, even from Erik per Sullivan, known for his lively and funny portrayal of "Dewey" in Malcolm in the Middle. Here, it seemed like he was sleepwalking through the entire film.Even if the film had a different writer or director, I doubt it would have been significantly better. The story felt unoriginal, as if it had been told before, and the attempt to combine elements from The Shining, Prophecy, and The Sixth Sense fell flat.
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