The Windigo

Where in the world did these pleasant reviews of this rubbish come from?! I rely heavily on IMDB reviews to assist in checking obscure films out before take the plunge-especially movies I have to rent. The glowing reviews of this made it a no brainer.

This is one of the worst piles of trash I've ever seen. I couldn't even finish this drivel. The acting is cartoonish. The writing is abysmal. The only pass from me is maybe everyone involved with this was the backup to the backup writers while Hollywood was on strike.

This is money and time I will never get back. This movie was so bad I turned it off and immediately went to bed.

I didn't see any of the trailers prior to seeing this movie but I initially started watching it because I was familiar with the legend of the Windigo. The movie started out as one son's wish to protect his family but quickly turned into a power trip gone wrong after calling a supernatural entity. I was hoping for more of a supernatural horror movie, similar to The Conjuring or The Watchers, but was unfortunately disappointed. While I realize that this may be a low budget movie but I wasn't happy with the acting, which appear to be stilted in places, and the Windigo's outfit appeared to be made out of latex and didn't appear realistic.

This is one of the worst films I've seen in recent history. It was so bad, I got up and left. I almost made it to the end of the driveway before I realized I was watching it at home. Was I supposed to be scared, because if I was, I missed it. Oh sure, it had its prerequisite number of jump scares to qualify as a horror movie, but most were overused tropes and predictable. And, speaking of predictable, I predicted the movie's ending less than half way through, and the only reason I watched it to the end, was to see if I was right. I was. With regards to the acting, the male lead's acting was so bad, I actually burst out laughing several times. I wasted about an hour and a half of my life watching this movie.

I wanted a scary movie and the promising reviews did me in. This is not only not scary at all, it's not a good movie, don't waste your time. No atmosphere was created aside from something that Hallmark might produce. The accompanying music was awful in trying to establish the mood. Another reviewer mentioned the actor Marco Fuller being more of a distraction than anything of value, and I couldn't agree more, and I couldn't exactly say why. It looked like the actors were acting on top of all the other fails - maybe the grandma was the most convincing. It got annoying to watch and I couldn't waste any more time on it.

First of all, this is not a Wendigo. Do not be fooled with some of these reviews saying that it's a good watch if you want to learn more about the Wendigo. This is much closer to the Wechuge (and even then, still not that close at all). They barely even got the cannibalistic aspect of it right. How do you mess that up? The Wendigo actually looks like a pale human with elongated limbs, and, of course, eats people (to oversimplify it).

At least they didn't also confuse it with the Skinwalker. The costume for the creature was obviously fake, but their budget was likely low and that was the best they could do. Don't hate on them for that. The acting was doable, but sometimes cringey. They included Native American actors as the main characters, so there's that at least. But that doesn't save them from how incorrect and how bad this movie was.