Wendigo

United States

2001

91 Min

Color

1.85:1

English

Currently 3.0/5 Stars.
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CAST Patricia Clarkson, Jake Weber, Erik Per Sullivan, John Speredakos, Christopher Wynkoop, Lloyd Oxendine, Brian Delate

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, Jake, 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. —IMDb

Director

Larry Fessenden

Larry Fessenden, nominee for the 2010 Piaget Spirit Award for producing, and winner of the 1997 Someone to Watch Spirit Award, is the writer, director and editor of the award-winning art-horror trilogy HABIT (Nominated for 2 Spirit Awards), WENDIGO and NO TELLING. His recent film, THE LAST WINTER (Nominated for a 2007 Gotham Award for best ensemble cast), starring Ron Perlman, Connie Britton and James Le Gros, premiered at the 2006 Toronto Film Festival and is distributed by IFC.

Fessenden subsequently directed SKIN AND BONES, starring Doug Jones, for NBC V’s horror anthology show FEAR ITSELF. Fessenden wrote the screenplay with Guillermo del Toro of ORPHANAGE, an English language remake of the successful Spanish film EL ORFANATO, which was produced by del Toro. Fessenden won the 2009 Golden Hammer Award from the website Hammer to Nail for “being such an inspiring force in the industry.”

2010 sees Fessenden producing, hosting and curating with Glenn McQuaid the highly… read more

Larry Fessenden, nominee for the 2010 Piaget Spirit Award for producing, and winner of the 1997 Someone to Watch Spirit Award, is the writer, director and editor of the award-winning art-horror trilogy HABIT (Nominated for 2 Spirit Awards), WENDIGO and NO TELLING. His recent film, THE LAST WINTER (Nominated for a 2007 Gotham Award for best ensemble cast), starring Ron Perlman, Connie Britton and James Le Gros, premiered at the 2006 Toronto Film Festival and is distributed by IFC.

Fessenden subsequently directed SKIN AND BONES, starring Doug Jones, for NBC V’s horror anthology show FEAR ITSELF. Fessenden wrote the screenplay with Guillermo del Toro of ORPHANAGE, an English language remake of the successful Spanish film EL ORFANATO, which was produced by del Toro. Fessenden won the 2009 Golden Hammer Award from the website Hammer to Nail for “being such an inspiring force in the industry.”

2010 sees Fessenden producing, hosting and curating with Glenn McQuaid the highly ambitious audio series TALES FROM BEYOND THE PALE, featuring genre favorites reimagining the radio play.

As a character actor Fessenden has appeared in numerous films, recently being sited with a special Jury mention for best performance at the 2009 Slamdance Film Festival for his role in Glenn McQuaid’s I SELL THE DEAD. He has appeared in Neil Jordan’s THE BRAVE ONE, Joe Swanberg’s SILVER BULLETS, Jim Jarmusch’s BROKEN FLOWERS, Kelly Reichardt’s WENDY AND LUCY, Martin Scorsese’s BRINGING OUT THE DEAD, Steve Buscemi’s ANIMAL FACTORY, Jim Mickle’s STAKE LAND and MULBERRY STREET, Brad Anderson’s VANISHING ON 7TH STREET and SESSION 9, and IMAGINARY HEROES by Dan Harris. Fessenden stars in HABIT, and the Sundance pictures MARGARITA HAPPY HOUR (Ilya Chaiken) and RIVER OF GRASS (Kelly Reichardt).

Fessenden has been a producer on various projects including Kelly Reichardt’s WENDY AND LUCY (nominated for two 2009 Spirit Awards and on over 60 “Top 10 Movies of the Year” lists), Ti West’s THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL, and West’s THE INNKEEPERS, Joe Maggio’s THE LAST RIGHTS OF JOE MAE, James McKenney’s SATAN HATES YOU, JT Petty’s BLOOD RED EARTH, Ilya Chaiken’s LIBERTY KID, Douglas Buck¹s remake of DePalma’s SISTERS, Jeff Winner’s SATELITE and David Gebroe’s ZOMBIE HONEYMOON.

Under his low budget horror banner ScareFlix, Fessenden has produced 9 films: Jim Mickle’s STAKE LAND, Joe Maggio’s BITTER FEAST, Ti West’s THE ROOST and TRIGGER MAN; three films by James Felix McKenney: HYPOTHERMIA, THE OFF SEASON and AUTOMATONS; Graham Reznick’s I CAN SEE YOU and Glenn McQuaid¹s I SELL THE DEAD which starred Dominic Monaghan, Ron Perlman, Angus Scrimm, and Fessenden. I SELL THE DEAD opened the 2009 Slamdance Film Festival where it won awards for best cinematography and best actor (Fessenden), and won the 2008 Toronto After Dark Film Festival award for best Independent Film.

Fessenden has operated the production company Glass Eye Pix since 1985, with the mission of supporting individual voices in the arts.

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