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Wendigo (2001)

Wendigo poster
Directed by
Larry Fessenden
Genre
drama film, horror film, monster film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 31m
Rated
R
Rating
4.8 of 10 from 94 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A family drives up to a cabin in upstate New York for a winter weekend. After hitting a deer with their car, they are stalked by a local hunter and the son begins seeing hallucinations of a mythical creature called the Wendigo.

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What happens

Wendigo is a 2001 American psychological horror film written and directed Larry Fessenden and starring Patricia Clarkson, Jake Weber, and Erik Per Sullivan. The film centers around a photographer and his family who, during a wintery weekend in upstate New York, experience the presence of a dark force in a cabin while being stalked by a local hunter after they accidentally hit a deer on the road. Meanwhile, George's son, Miles, starts having vivid hallucinations of the legendary Wendigo, who he believes to be responsible for the dark forces. The film was produced by Antidote Films and Glass Eye Pix, and was distributed by Magnolia Pictures. It received mixed reviews by critics. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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