Wendigo

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Summary: Good but flawed indie horror film
Review: Note to intelligent, adult horror fans: Ignore the many bad reviews here from unimaginative, dim bulb kids - Wendigo is easily one of the better horror films of the last 5 years or so. Even though I have some problems with the script and some of the acting, Larry Fesseden does a great job creating and sustaining a sense of menace, and in the tradition of the best horror literature and films, the supernatural arises as a projection of the psychological state of the characters. Also, the Wendigo itself is brilliantly presented. Rather than struggling to come up with a convincing monster on a low budget, Fessenden creates a bizarre, deliberately unreal-looking contraption shot and edited in a surreal manner that is startlingly effective.

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Summary: No-budget horror done wrong
Review: After watching this on DVD and on HBO this independent horror movie has to be the absolute worst horror movie since"Blair Witch Project,Cabin Fever,House of the Dead,Wrong Turn,and Halloween 3. Wendigo is a no-budget movie that has no special effects or blood or a monster or villian but a curse and a forklore about a deer. A boy and his family visit a house and then start to meet three weird people that hunted a deer and then the boy has hallucinations and then a man gives him a little souvenir of a deer on a totem pole and then that causes his dad and a few others to die. Not one scene is scary or suspensful but the movie is weird and boring. the ending is by far the worst ending in a horror movie history. Please avoid this movie at all costs and if it is free at a video store don't rent it because it is a rip-off. If you want a good no-budget horror movie rent Basket Case or Evil Dead.

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Summary: "There are spirits that should be feared!"
Review: WARNING: Although there is a child in this film, it is NOT for children to see due to nudity and sexual situations.
A family of three are driving through the woods. George (Jake Weber) hits a deer that came out of nowhere. They are now also stuck in the snow. Some hunters come along and Otis, the main hunter (John Speredakes) decides to shoot the injured deer dispite George's plea to put down the guns. The mother, Kim (Patricia Clarkson) is furious and yells at the men, "You don't fire your gun 15 feet from my son!". The boy, Miles (Erik Per Sullivan) is very attentive to all that is going on. No longer playing with his toys.
Otis replies that they have been after that buck for 18 hours. But Otis is complaining that the car broke the antlers off the deer, so George tell Otis to stay away from his car.
The family eventually make it to the cabin and there the mom and dad make sure that Miles is happy, so they give him alot of attention and family time together. But the boy has been deeply affected by Otis with a gun. Only the Wendigo can help him now.
The Elder Man was played by Lloyd E. Oxendine. Christopher Wynkoup played the "Sheriff". James Godwin played the "Wendigo".


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Summary: This "horror" movie forgot the main ingredient in horror...
Review: ...namely, HORROR! I can't recall even one scary moment in the whole movie, but I can recall being very bored for the entire duration. My friends and I watched the movie all the way to the end, as we hoped that SOMETHING, ANYTHING would happen, but it didn't.

The Wendigo "monster" was funny as hell though! I would recommend seeing the movie if the deerlike Wendigo creature was around more than 6 seconds, as that thing was hilarious, but they just didn't show that comic gem long enough.

Avoid this movie at all costs.

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Summary: WOW!
Review: WOW, what a piece of garbage! This is by far the worst movie I have ever had the displeasure of being exposed to. I would not wish this movie on my wost enemy. The picture quality is terrible, the story less than great and the acting! all man is the acting the wost I have ever seen. Who ever made this movie should be fined and barred from ever making another film!

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Summary: Digo My Brain, Boring
Review: This film wants to be too many things at once, preposterous art house flick, horror film, and porn film but in the end, it turns out to be stupid and quite boring. The premise is that a child, with disturbing qualities, namely a shyness that is so terrifying, and an excessive imagination. There is absolutely nothing in this film that qualifies it as a horror flick so I suggest people ignorning it. A big waste of time.



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Summary: why all the bad reviews?
Review: I don't understand all the one star reviews. The opening forty minutes are rather good. A family, on their way to a isolated mountain retreat (always a bad idea), hit a deer and their car gets stuck in the snow. We see this from the perspective of the child - or, at least, we share his sense of dread, his desire for night to cease (so that his dreams will stop turning into nightmares). The director, Larry Fessenden, is also the editor and he has a real feel for how to use digital editing techniques to enhance the look and texture of his film. (Although he is less successful in staging action sequences.) I typically loathe digital editing effects - I still prefer to use Avid - but I was rather impressed with Fessenden's use of this technology. Having said that, the second half of the film - especially the climax - is a disappointment. This has less to do with the low-budget FX though than with the muddled plot: Deliverance meets Pumpkinhead.


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Summary: WENDIGO - SO MUCH PROMISE WASTED....
Review: If you want to waste your time on a movie then here you go! Being a film critic amongst peers and a indie film creator, I was simply blown away by the dry and plodding direction of Wendigo. Look up the term Wendigo, it is a Native American legend. There are so many heart-pounding possibilities that could have spawned from the palette of the Wendigo legend, and yet this pathetic movie does not even bother to dabble it's brush in it. Both my wife and I had a difficult time trying to understand why this contemptible movie was made. Simply put, a WASTE and FAILURE! It easily placed itself within my MP10 (Most Pathetic 10) list.

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Summary: Cool idea...
Review: I didn't know much about this movie when I picked it up. I had seen a picture from the movie of some sort of bone/raindeer/monster thing that made me want to see what it was. Not at all what I had expected. Wendigo, in short, seems to be a story about the relationships of a family who go from good to traumatic. Jake Webber (Dawn of the Dead '04) is the star of the movie. He's a father who loves his son, and cares for his wife. He obviously pays more attention to the son, distractingly played by Malcom in the Middle's Erik Per Sullivan. The mother/wife, Patricia Clarkson, doesn't play a huge role in the movie, rather boring. Not a whole lot happens in the first half hour of the movie besides watching father-son bonding and learning a little bit about the Wendigo legend. The last 20 minutes or so of the movie is where things really take a turn. After a sleding accident, the family returns home at night to find a disturbingly tall creature in their front yard. The rest of the movie is kind of crazy if not cheesy but still graps your attention with the father-son parting scene at the end. This movie was not what I had expected, or wanted, but it didn't dissapoint me. It's just not a movie that will be seen again anytime soon.