Wendigo (2001)

User Rating:

5.0/10   

Director:

Larry Fessenden

Writer:

Larry Fessenden (writer)

Genre:

Horror | Mystery | Thriller

Tagline:

A new hallucination from the director of HABIT.

Plot:

George is a high-strung professional photographer who is starting to unravel from the stress of his work with a Manhattan advertising agency...

Plot Keywords:

Deer | Legend | Beast | Wendigo | Hunter

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Patricia Clarkson	...	Kim
Jake Weber	...	George
Erik Per Sullivan	...	Miles
John Speredakos	...	Otis
Christopher Wynkoop	...	Sheriff Tom Hale
Lloyd Oxendine	...	Elder
Brian Delate	...	Everett
Daniel Sherman	...	Billy
Jennifer Wiltsie	...	Martha
Maxx Stratton	...	Brandon
Richard Stratton	...	Earl
Dash Stratton	...	Little Otis
Dwayne Navara	...	Mechanic
Shelly Bolding	...	Store Owner
Susan Pellegrino	...	Nurse
James Godwin	...	Wendigo
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Joseph C. Felece	...	Surgeon
Daniel Stewart Sherman	...	Billy

Directed by
Larry Fessenden

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Larry Fessenden		writer

Produced by
Jeffrey Levy-Hinte	....	producer

Original Music by
Michelle DiBucci

Cinematography by
Terry Stacey

Film Editing by
Larry Fessenden

Casting by
Mary Clay Boland
Sheila Jaffe
Georgianne Walken

Production Design by
Stephen Beatrice

Art Direction by
Andy Biscontini

Set Decoration by
Shelley Herbert

Costume Design by
Jill Newell

Makeup Department
Tisha Koeppel	....	hair designer
James Ojala	....	creature effects crew: Direct Effects
Josh Turi	....	special makeup effects artist

Production Management
Gwen Bialic	....	production supervisor
April Blair	....	unit production manager
Pria Thakran	....	post-production supervisor

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Dan Brillman	....	second second assistant director
Cecily Kaston	....	first assistant director
Alyson Latz	....	second assistant director

Art Department
Brahm Revel	....	storyboard artist
Hunter Thompson	....	art production assistant
Joanna M. Wright	....	assistant property master

Sound Department
Nancy Cabrera	....	foley artist
Ryan Clark	....	assistant sound editor
Michelle DiBucci	....	soundscape
Tom Efinger	....	sound re-recording mixer
Tom Efinger	....	supervising sound editor
Nicholas Montgomery	....	foley artist
Nicholas Montgomery	....	sound effects editor
Jay Peck	....	foley artist
Abigail Savage	....	dialogue editor
Jose Torres	....	sound

Special Effects by
Jay Silver	....	effects photography
John Stifanich	....	special effects coordinator
Dayton Taylor	....	special effects producer

Visual Effects by
Timothy Considine	....	visual effects supervisor

Camera and Electrical Department
Alan Blagg	....	additional grip
Greg Cangemi	....	electrician
Claire F. Cario	....	first assistant camera
Oliver Cary	....	camera operator
Doug Kennedy	....	key grip
Joe Langford	....	camera loader
Timothy Reilly	....	best boy grip
Craig Striano	....	third grip
Attika Torrence	....	grip

Casting Department
Katharina Eggmann	....	casting associate

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Tiffany Pentz	....	key wardrobe assistant

Editorial Department
Jason Brodkey	....	assistant editor
Paul Zucker	....	assistant editor

Music Department
Edward Bilous	....	score producer
Paula Bing	....	musician: flutes
Alex Blake	....	musician: bass
Gary Chester	....	music recordist
Michelle DiBucci	....	conductor
Michelle DiBucci	....	orchestrator
Michelle DiBucci	....	score producer
Ani Gregorian	....	musician: violin
Juliet Haffner	....	musician: violin solos
Greg Kalember	....	music mixer
Greg Kalember	....	score producer
Helen Kim	....	musician: violin
Pauline Kim	....	musician: violin
John Klibonoff	....	musician: piano
Conway Kuo	....	musician: violin
Jeffrey Mironov	....	musician: guitars (as Jeff Mironov)
Ted Mook	....	musician: cello solos
Valerie Naranjo	....	musician: vocalist, drums and percussion
Yousif Sheronick	....	musician: marimba, vibraphone
Matthew Sullivan	....	musician: oboe and english horn (as Matthew Sullivan)
Wolfgang Tsoutsouris	....	musician: violin
Glen Velez	....	musician: percussion, frame drum, singing and chanting
Krzysztof Witek	....	musician: violin solos

Other crew
Patrick Floyd	....	key production assistant
Roger Kass	....	legal services
Kristen Kusama	....	assistant production office coordinator
Kristen Kusama	....	production assistant
Frank Murray	....	post-production accountant
Teresa Reilly	....	production assistant
Jenifer Scaturro	....	assistant: Michelle DiBucci
Beth M. Schniebolk	....	production accountant
Pawel Sek	....	assistant: Michelle DiBucci
Susan Shufro	....	assistant: Michelle DiBucci
Joe Smalley	....	production assistant

Production Companies

• Antidote Films (I)
• Glass Eye Pix

Distributors

• A-Film Home Entertainment (2009) (Netherlands) (DVD)
• Curb Entertainment
• Madman Entertainment (2003) (Australia) (DVD)
• Magnolia Pictures (2002) (USA)
• Media Cooperation One (MC-One)
• WE Productions (2005) (France) (DVD)

Special Effects

• Direct Effects

MPAA:

Rated R for a strong sex scene, language and violent images.

Runtime:

91 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS-Stereo | DTS

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Australia:MA (TV rating) | Germany:16 | USA:R | Italy:VM14

Filming Locations:

Kingston, New York, USA

Company:

Antidote Films (I)

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When George falls from the sled, the snow beneath him already has a body imprint before he lands atop it.

Quotes:

Otis Stookey: I dug you out of that ditch...you could have asked!

Movie Connections:

Referenced in The Last Winter (2006)

Soundtrack:

Hold Out

Good but not Great

This film based on Ojibwa (chippewa) and Algonquin Native American Legends.

I had expected this film to center mostly around this but it was only a small part of the plot.

The Wendigo, Windigo, or Windago is a spirit that comes with the wind. It would entice persons by calling to them in an irresistable way. It then would drag its victims along at great speeds until they burn up.

This film mostly centers around a family that vacations un upstate New York during winter and have an unpleasant run in with some local hunters. This film has some excellent cinematography and special camera angles. There is much time-lapse photography and one part with the now-famous "time slice" photography better known as "bullet time" which was made famous in "The Matrix (1999)"

It is an unusual film and I could describe it as a combination of Blair Witch, Sixth Sense, Abominable Snowman.