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Summary: What's that smell?
Review: Is it turkey? This is one with all the trimmings. Bad dialog,
bad acting, really bad improvization, no plot. Lots of real kewl camera and editing work. Even has a gratuitus 360 shot of turkey feathers flying around a little boy chopping up ... something.Erik Per Sullivan was pretty good (You know, Dewey from Malcolm in the Middle). This movie just plain stinks no matter how hard the 'director' tries to convince you otherwise. Save your dough.
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Summary: One star is one too many...
Review: This is a lousy movie. Don't waste your money or time. Like many horror movies, this one starts out interestingly enough, but quickly spirals down a slippery slope to the garbage heap. It coulda been something, it coulda been a contenda, but it only really stinks. Not scary, kinda silly, especially the Wendigo itself, which is so fake, with special effects that had to have been created by third graders. The back of the DVD is incredibly misleading; I think they where writing about a different movie. Not worth renting, either.
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Summary: Atrocious
Review: I am a fan of independant films, and have often found joy in little heard of low budget movies, but his film is positively horrible. Chock full of needless character over-development, a purely gratuitous sex scene and a useless "Matrix"-like pan and scan, this was two hours of my life I would like back. To make this worse, the director's commentary, which is usually enjoyable on any film, was nothing more than the director stating it was my fault as a brainwashed audience member if I didn't enjoy the movie as I obviously was lacking in imagination and an open mind. No horror or suspense combined with poorly used ideas make this movie a must miss feature.
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Summary: Not Scary but contained a very atmospheric feel!
Review: On a chilly typically English night I desided after a visit to my local video store to hire out two movies which both stated from a review on the front cover that they both contained the power to scare. The ...movie Wendigo. ...in hand WENDIGO, this movie was never boring, the acting was all round excelent ... especially from the young boy Erik Per Sullivan (Dewey in Malcolm in the Middle) the script is well above average for a horror movie especially in this day and age were CGI seems to dominate the content and push along a very weak and mirrored narrative. Wendigo does not contain any of todays teen horror / slasher flick genre trademarks. ...But here for me was a little treasure that I came to ponder about for several weeks after. Not a great masterpiece mind you, such as the final 20 minutes of the movie could have been handled a little more restraintly but that doesn't put you off the movie as a whole. I know now from watching this movie that I will be looking out for Larry Fessenden the director in the future for I am sure he will go onto greater things. As it stands, give Wendigo a chance ... at least it dared to be slightly different and contained, for me, the most important ingredient of any horror movie, ATMOSPHERE!
And remember when independent horror flicks do come our way they will never appeal to the vast majority of audiences tastes simply because they were never meant too, if Windigo had then Larry Fessenden wouldn't have gone out and made it he would have made something like I Know What you Did Last Summer or Final Destination 2.
Lastly, if anybody is too blame for the slasher / gore generation being misguided to hire this flick out, it should be the those PR reps at promising themes that the film may not contain. So rent it and see a good little indie horror / thriller that delivers an icy atmosphere of thrills. Cheers
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Summary: Mislead and lied to
Review: "The Shining meets Deliverence when a family, stranded in the middle of nowhere, comes face to face with a terrifying legend." This is on the back of the DVD. When I read this I immediatley wanted to see it. Now I know that the quote above has absolutely nothing to do with the movie. The family is not stranded in anyway, they have a car and even use it to make trips into town, and as for coming face to face with a terrifying legend? Well, the only time anyone of the family members sees the wendigo is the little boy and thats for a second. The mother and father have no idea that anything strange is going on. And as for Terrifying, well, simply put, NO! The actual description of the movie states: "But what seems to be a mere occurence of misfortune marks the beginning of a terrifying journey, where myth becomes reality and an evil spirit, half man and half animal, haunts a small town." The town had nothing to do with the movie! Its never haunted by the wendigo and the towns people know nothing about this thing. The movie revolves primarily around 4 people. The two statements on the back of the box both contradict themselves. And they are both flat out misrepresentations of the movie. I was extremely excited about this movie when I first heard about it about 6 months ago and now I know I waited for nothing.
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Summary: Wendigo
Review: This movie is low budget, but it is very much like the Blair Witch. The acting is really good and the story leves the viewer wondering what just happened.. Although this Wendigo is not like the one you would see in the comics such as X-Men. In this movie the Wendigo is more of a myth than anything else sorta like Bigfoot. This movies has certain elements that are like the movie Sasquatch. This movie is worth the watch even though it's not scary at all, but it depends on the person who's watching it.
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Summary: Not even worth the price of rental
Review: I have to agree with most of the other reviewers here in concluding that this film is huge waste of time. Fortunately, my exposure to it only came from renting it at my local [rental store] so I take comfort in the fact that I'm only out of [$$$] or so as opposed to the [$$$] to [$$$] I would have lost had I purchased the video or DVD. Nevertheless, after watching this film last night I still felt cheated. "Wendigo" was released by Artisan, the same company that gave the world "The Blair Witch Project," and I'm sure the creative minds behind this film would love for it to be lumped into the same psychological horror genre as that film. This wouldn't be a bad thing if the script were serviceable. But while the film does a good job of using it's isolated rural setting to build an atmosphere of dread, it doesn't use these elements to push the film to a satisfying conclusion. Ultimately, "Wendigo" gives its storyline and its actors nowhere to go and nothing do. The only actor in the film most folks are likely to have heard of is Eric Per Sullivan, who plays youngest brother, Dewey on Fox TV's "Malcolm In The Middle". With his moon eyes and pensive glances he gives one of the best performances by a child actor in a suspense film since Haley Joel Osment in "The Sixth Sense." But his performance can't save the rest of the film which nearly bored me to tears. While I'm not one of those half-wits that craves a bloodletting every 15 minutes as in any other routine slasher film, I do like to see something happen periodically to sustain my interest. The hard truth is that there's so little going on in "Wendigo" that you'll be hard pressed to stay awake even if you watch it at 1 p.m. instead of 1 a.m. This film may be worth catching on cable light at night when there's absolutely nothing else on. Otherwise, consider it a must... to avoid.
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Summary: Where's Jason Voorhee's when you need him?
Review: I was fooled by the cover of this flat liner of a movie.And when I say flat liner I'am not talking about a scare your self to death type of movie, something more like bore yourself to death fits the part way better. This movie was full of nothing but bad acting and blair witch like camera work making it even more appualing...Not to mention the low grade made in the basement of the early hours like speical effects, and costume design....I'll hand it this it did start out sort of interesting and I was expecting like most good horror movies for it to pick up once the very fake looking deer was run over in the beggining....But once I saw the cheap thrills of this movie I was skepitcal in thinking it was just a flaw and it would pick up once they showed this so called "WENDIGO." But it wasn't too long before I found the movie half over and not much had happened, at that same time I found my self wanting Jason Voorhee's, Michael Myer's, Freddy Krueger,anything or anyone that would make this flaw of a flim more interesting...At least in those movies the killing started with in the first thirty minutes....And they were good and suspenseful none the less.... So finally when the ever so needed and long awaited Wendigo decieced to show his face it was too late to save this sleeper of a movie, sorry guy just a tad bit too late on the scary effect... So if you like such movies like the Blair Witch or Deliverence I guess this one would be sort of the film for you, but if you are looking for a good slasher like film filled with blood, guts,and gore, you might want to steer clear of this one...
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Summary: Huge let down...
Review: I was excited about this movie for almost a year now. I somehow found the coming attraction and website online... I even contacted people from the website to find out when it was coming out on DVD (I had missed it in the theater). I love horror movies, however this movie totally stinks. I read some of the other reviews here and I don't understand how there is anything positive to say. The acting .... Special effects were bad. Cinematography was lame. Storyline and script very, very weak. I'm sorry to sound so negative, but I was seriously looking forward to something worth my time.
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Summary: Be Very Afraid...
Review: Yes, be afraid of the Wendigo. This movie really scared me. It scared me that someone thought that this worthless script needed to be made into an actual movie. It scared me that any self-respecting actor would waste their time and effort on this movie. The corny sound track and hokey special effects did coax some chuckles out of me but no screams. This movie was so bad I feel a little guilty for actually wasting my time to write this review. If nothing else remember this, if you see the Wendigo, be afraid, be bery afraid and get yourself as far away as you can.
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