Wendigo (2002)
Directed by Larry Fessenden
A family from the city decide to spend a weekend away at a friend's country farmhouse. But a fluke accident sets off a chain of events that alters their lives forever and conjures up the ferocious spirit of the Wendigo.
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Composer Michelle Dibucci ("Creepshow") echoes the sinister lalala-ing of "Rosemary's Baby."
Instead, filmmakers behind films like The Blair Witch Project, The Sixth Sense, The Others, Session 9, The Devil's Backbone and the new Wendigo have taken a cue from Val Lewton's great horror films from the 1940s, like Cat People and I Walked with a Zombie.
Speredakos, as Otis, reminds of another film Otis - Tom Towles in the edgy 1990 flick "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer."
The helmer uses visual elements of such classics as "The Shining," "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and "Jacob's Ladder" to good use.
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The helmer uses visual elements of such classics as "The Shining," "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and "Jacob's Ladder" to good use.
This stylish thriller has been influenced by films from "The Shining" to "Halloween," yet creates its own distinct place in the genre.
My guess is that Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson's Scream series shamed most filmmakers into discontinuing the usual slasher flicks.
The first two, No Telling (1991) and Habit (1997), neither of which I've seen, are available on DVD.
Fessenden trumps himself with the third of his modern metaphor horror trilogy ("No Telling," "Habit").
(Fessenden is currently in post-production of a new scary movie, Wendigo.