To me, this movie is perfection.

Just perfect...

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

I had to double check the date on this one, as i swore it said 2001. Why then, does Wendigo look like it was recorded off of a late 70s VHS Horror Anthology? The acting is fine, but everything else is from bad to worse. Visual effects scream shoestring budget, to the point of why even bother. Writing is awful, as someone seems to have attempted over an hour of pure character development, without anything actually ever happening. By the time the climax rolls around, my brain has all but checked out. I honestly don't know who this is made for. Most definitely not for me.

Now this is what I'm talking about. Finally, a low-budget horror outing that uses its limitations to its advantage. WENDIGO, while occasionally flawed, is a triumph of the imagination. Granted, it leans heavy on EVIL DEAD style camera moves for its moodiness, but it's still a damn sight better than 99% of direct to video dross.The story is pretty simple: a family takes a vacation at a remote cabin and are menaced by one particularly unhinged hunter. But director Larry Fessenden really knows how to build suspense and add layers of unsettling creepiness through the use of the mythical Wendigo. Is it real? Is it all in the boy's imagination? Is it an externalization of the child's emotional state? Some have quibbled that the film is unsatisfying because it's left to you to decide. Don't be put off by such petty nonsense. A film that makes you think is not one to avoid. It's one to rejoice in.

"Wendigo" is a really lackluster creature features.**SPOILERS**Traveling to Alaska, family Kim, (Patricia Clarkson) George, (Jake Weber) and Miles, (Erik Per Sullivan) manage to get into a little car trouble along the way. Accepting help from local hunter Otis, (John Speredakos) they manage to arrive at their house and settle in for a vacation. After hearing of a native spirit called the Wendigo, Miles begins obsessing about it and it's origins, to the point of showing no interest in anything else around. As this concerns them to the point of worry, a series of strange events plague the family and they soon grow to believe his stories about the Wendigo spirit. As they race to save themselves, they begin to wonder if the spirit of the Wendigo is really alive and after them.The Good News: There wasn't a whole lot here that really impressed. At times, this did have some pretty nifty scenes. The conclusion of the sledding scene, where a bank of fog rolling over the snow picking up loose particles moving deeper into the forest, away from the scene of the accident that has a really creepy, supernatural vibe to it. This is easily the best scene in the film. It also manages to successfully evoke a feeling of an unseen presence here, with it lurking but never seen watching. The forest location is generally given a foreboding, haunting look and it generates a few mildly decent shivers of suspense due to the feeling of the unknown captured. The other plus in this one is the fancy camera-work. It's a distraction to be sure, but it's still something to be commended, as it does look pretty fancy at times with some good shots, but that's about it.The Bad News: This here wasn't all that bad but did have some problems. One of the big problems is the film's psychological approach. This makes it seem like long periods of time without anything going on, especially the beginning. There's a long period built up off the family moving in and settling to their surroundings. While it's not the greatest of events, this does slow down the film somewhat to get all these scenes in. It's supposed to be a slice of the mundane, but even in the most boring of lives, something of interest happens. The opposite happens here. There's nothing going on for the first two-thirds of the film, beyond setting up the legend of the creature. This is just painful to sit through, as it features nothing to keep the most squeamish of viewers interested, which is a fatal flaw of the film. Nothing interesting happens during most of the film, and what little action happens at the end isn't even that good anyway. There's a grand total of two attacks in the film, and one doesn't result in a fatal and the second one is simply to finish the job of the first one. That's hardly acceptable for a creature feature of any type. This is weakened even more by the sheer incomprehensible story. Nothing is offered to suggest it's real or a dream, and this is applied to every single aspect. Nothing is given as to whether the creature is real or made up, where it comes from, or what the purpose of the film is about. Everything is left open-ended and that's a real flaw. The camera-work is the film's other big flaw. While it can produce some nice scenes, just about all the time is spent on it doing nothing other than aggravating. At times, it's too fancy for it's own good, being nothing more than fanciness for the sake of hiding nothing. It's supposed to be a meaningful shot, but instead the camera tricks are used to show that it's simply nothing. These reasons are all part of it's really lackluster fare.The Final Verdict: This is one of the most boring, underwhelming films ever that has only small, saving grace points going for it. There's really only a few out there that would enjoy this, so unless you enjoy a more artistic approach, then skip this one easily.Rated R: Graphic Language, Graphic Violence, a sex scene and mild animal violence

As I was watching this movie I was thinking,OK it'll get good any moment...I was wrong. The real best part of this movie was when it was over. A complete waste of 92 minutes. All seriousness aside the best part was when the Wendigo finally showed up which was at the end and you couldn't really even see him that good. And the tail end was really kind of dumb as well. There was too many sections in the movie where you thought something was going to happen but was a let down. The worse part is there was more talk of the Wendigo then there was Wendigo. For the creature to be so bad,you definitely couldn't tell it by this movie.