¡QUÉ HORROR! 2015
Candidate #16
WENDIGO
(January 2001)
"Wendigo is hungry. Always hungry. Its hunger, never satisfied.”
"Wendigo is hungry. Always hungry. Its hunger, never satisfied.”
When
I first saw Larry Fessenden’s The Last Winter, I had already been aware of both Habit and Wendigo, but
had never had the opportunity to nail either one down for a proper watch.
Having
been deeply impressed by The Last Winter
(which grabbed itself a ¡Qué Horror! 2008 slot) I subsequently increased my efforts to see both of Fessenden’s earlier
films, without much success.
Until
now.
Just
in time for the upcoming Blu-ray release of “The Larry Fessenden Collection”
(more on that later), Wendigo glided
right up to me, tapped me on the shoulder, and said, “Hey, look at me! I’m an awesome horror movie!”
And
Wendigo was absolutely right.
In
a teeny nutshell, Jake Weber and Patricia Clarkson get away from the city with
their son (played by Malcolm in the
Middle’s Dewey, Erik Per Sullivan), with spectacularly horrible results.
And
while that’s all I’ll say as far as what the film is about--at any rate, some
of you may be able to glean some of its thematic preoccupations from the title
alone--I will go on the record as saying it makes for an excellent companion
piece/double bill with The Last Winter,
and, if anything, has made me even more
antsy to finally see Habit.
Which
may become significantly easier, with the upcoming Collection, which will
feature Fessenden’s No Telling, Habit, Wendigo, and The Last Winter,
all remastered in high-definition. The Collection will be released on October
20, to celebrate 30 years of Glass Eye Pix, Fessenden’s indie production
company that has also brought us Jim Mickle’s Stake Land, Ti West’s The House of the Devil, and Adrián García Bogliano’s Late
Phases
(to name a select ¡Qué horror! few).
So,
yeah. Wendigo.
See
it. Or wait for The Larry Fessenden Collection.
I
know I will…
(Wendigo DVD cover art courtesy of
fandango.com.)
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