"It is nature against progress. In Fessenden's horror trilogy, this theme has proved important to him and is especially so in the finale." -- Dennis Schwartz, OZUS' WORLD MOVIE REVIEWS   "Wendigo wants to be a monster movie for the art-house crowd, but it falls into the trap of pretention almost every time." -- Tim Sanger, FILM THREAT   "A dizzying digital video oddyssey through the snowy woods of upstate New York." -- Eugene Novikov, FILM BLATHER   "On the right track to something that's creepy and effective . . . It's just going to take more than a man in a Bullwinkle costume to get there." -- Brian Mckay, EFILMCRITIC.COM   "Fessenden continues to do interesting work, and it would be nice to see what he could make with a decent budget. But the problem with Wendigo, for all its effective moments, isn't really one of resources." -- Andy Klein, NEW TIMES   "Fessenden's narrative is just as much about the ownership and redefinition of myth as it is about a domestic unit finding their way to joy." -- Ed Gonzalez, SLANT MAGAZINE   "A finely tuned mood piece, a model of menacing atmosphere." -- Hazel-Dawn Dumpert, L.A. WEEKLY   "It doesn't make for great cinema, but it is interesting to see where one’s imagination will lead when given the opportunity." -- Tim Cogshell, BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE   "...combines elements of other creepy flicks but succeeds in coming up with an original, eerie film in its own right" -- Robin Clifford, REELING REVIEWS   "(Wendigo is) why we go to the cinema: to be fed through the eye, the heart, the mind." -- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL

Hot Pick   "A mirror of our psyche, the place we're otherwise too afraid to go." -- Jeremiah Kipp, FILMCRITIC.COM

Cream of the Crop ROTTEN 42% Avg. Rating: 5.9/10   "The woods haven't been this creepy since The Blair Witch Project." -- Chris Vognar, DALLAS MORNING NEWS   "No amount of arty theorizing -- the special effects are 'German-Expressionist,' according to the press notes -- can render it anything but laughable." -- Megan Turner, NEW YORK POST   "A properly spooky film about the power of spirits to influence us whether we believe in them or not." -- Kenneth Turan, LOS ANGELES TIMES   "A mostly intelligent, engrossing and psychologically resonant suspenser." -- Frank Scheck, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER   "Fessenden has nurtured his metaphors at the expense of his narrative, but he does display an original talent." -- Andrew Sarris, NEW YORK OBSERVER   "The two leads are almost good enough to camouflage the dopey plot, but so much naturalistic small talk, delivered in almost muffled exchanges, eventually has a lulling effect." -- Rex Reed, NEW YORK OBSERVER   "For those in search of something different, Wendigo is a genuinely bone-chilling tale." -- Dave Kehr, NEW YORK TIMES   "The engagingly primitive animated special effects contribute to a mood that's sustained through the surprisingly somber conclusion." -- J. Hoberman, VILLAGE VOICE   "If this dud had been made in the '70s, it would have been called The Hills Have Antlers and played for about three weeks in drive-ins." -- Owen Gleiberman, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY   "The ending doesn't work ... but most of the movie works so well I'm almost recommending it, anyway -- maybe not to everybody, but certainly to people with a curiosity about how a movie can go very right, and then step wrong." -- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES ( More... )

  "A beautiful and haunting examination of the stories we tell ourselves to make sense of the mundane horrors of the world."
-- Jordana Brown, CITYSEARCH