Wendigo (film)

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Wendigo
Directed by	Larry Fessenden
Produced by	Jeffrey Levy-Hinte
Written by	Larry Fessenden
Starring	Patricia Clarkson, Jake Weber, Erik Per Sullivan
Music by	Michelle DiBucci
Cinematography	Terry Stacey
Editing by	Larry Fessenden
Distributed by	Magnolia Pictures
Release date(s)	2001
Running time	91 min
Country	USA
Language	English
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Wendigo is a 2001 horror film by Larry Fessenden starring Patricia Clarkson and Jake Weber.

[edit] Plot

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George (Jake Weber) 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 (Patricia Clarkson), and their son Miles (played by Erik Per Sullivan) 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.