The Wendigo

Stumbling upon the 2022 movie "The Wendigo" by random chance here in 2024, and seeing it was a horror movie, of course I had to sit down and watch it. Sure, I was not familiar with the plot of the movie, though I was familiar with it being out there, I just didn't have the chance to sit down and watch it before now.

The movie wasn't off to a good start with the social media approach, as I absolutely dislike video-bloggers and all those narcissists filming themselves and calling it social media content. And that influencer character was insanely dislikable. And then the movie ventures off into questionable quality footage of people viewing the video that the influencer had streamed. This was just pathetic. So yeah, "The Wendigo" was not off to a great start.

I am amazed that the writers collectively could come up with such a dung heap as this turned out to be.

Of course I was not familiar with the actors and actresses on the cast list. I can't claim that I was impressed with what I witnessed, but truth be told then the performers had everything stacked against them, from the camera-work to this being 'found footage' rubbish.

"The Wendigo" is a hand-held shot movie, and that is truly abysmal. I dislike that a lot, especially because it feels like homemade crap that I could have filmed better myself with my digital video camera, and I can actually manage to carry a steady hand.

The camera is all over the place, since this is a hand-held 'found footage' movie. So you're not in for a grand cinematic experience here.

This is hands down a thoroughly through and through terrible movie. Needless to say that I couldn't muster the enthusiasm or will to endure 68 minutes of watching this rubbish.

My rating of director Jake Robinson's 2022 movie "The Wendigo" lands on a one out of ten stars.

I just made an account on here to warn everyone about how terrible this movie is. I really don't know what to say. My cat actually got up and left the room 10 minutes in and came back right after it was over,I was actually excited to watch this movie with my girlfriend and we are still in shock at this disgrace of a horror movie we just witnessed,I wasted one of my energy drinks to have the energy to stay up and put my eyes through the torture of watching this, I still have to put more characters in here, I don't think I'm gonna put spoilers, that was the most painful hour of my life and I've fractured my arm before, so if someone actually read all this and still wants to watch this film,Godspeed.

It started out ok and could have be decent and built the characters up a little, but needed more back stories. Once in the woods it could have been good, but then they just do anything to make it mysterious and confussing and plot changes. Characters change during the plot for no reason and the plot and story just do not make sense. They seem to take ideas from Blair Witch and many other found footage films. Along with a evil dead plot ideas, but not in a good way. In the end the movies is not really about the Wendigo. Could have used a stronger and solid story/writing before going to the shooting stages.

It really wasn't much. It was cheesy, hilarious and definitely not horror. The editing was over the top and makes the movie look cheap. It's an okay "mockumentary"/found footage movie. But its nothing ground breaking. It reminded me of VHS if you ever seen that. I wouldn't say it's bad by any means, but it's also not that good either. It's somewhere in the middle. Giving it a 5 would be too generous though.

If you are expecting a movie with character backgrounds, lots of suspense and good effects, this probably isn't the movie for you. But if you are looking for a quick movie to watch just for fun and entertainment, then I would say go for it.

I implore you and all in your trade who think they are multi faceted, to please pick a profession and stick with it.

Please listen to me and all the other poor souls who have to sit through and watch the results of such multi roles in a film. Its sad.

Writers should write.

Actors should act.

Directors should direct.

PERIOD.

When you try, and I wish I could bold the word try, to do all three or even two of those roles, the end result is a sad display of ego on film.

The product suffers, your viewers suffer and the craft suffers.

Do one thing and do it well, and when you try to do all three, the outcome is a reassurance of why one should only attempt one of those roles.