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Wendigo
Completing a loose trilogy of "revisionist" horror films that's already seen Habit (about vampires) and No Telling (which works with the Frankenstein myth), writer-director Larry Fessenden's loose take on the "wolf man" movie (2000) is stylistically lively and generally well acted. Thematically, however, it's somewhat incoherent. When a photographer (Jake Weber) and a psychotherapist (Patricia Clarkson) from New York City drive upstate with their eight-year-old son (Erik Per Sullivan) to spend a weekend in a friend's farmhouse, their car hits a deer being tracked by local hunters, antagonizing one of them. Over the course of the weekend the boy is introduced to the Native American myth of the Wendigo, a spirit that combines man, animal, and vegetation, but the film sends mixed signals--sometimes it simply seems to want to be a horror remake of Deliverance. The bold editing keeps things visually interesting throughout. 90 min. |
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