i have never hear of larry fessenden before but judge by this effort into write and direct and he should keep his day job a a journeyman actor . like many others on here and i do not know how to categorize this film and it wasn not scary or spooky so can not be call a horror and the plot be so wafer thin it can not be a drama and there be no suspense so it can not be a thriller and it just a bad film that you should only see if you be a fan of the blair witch project . people who like this film use word and like ambiguity and complex and subtle but they be read into something that wasn not there . like the blair witch and people get scared because people assume they should be scar and buy into some guff that it be terrify . this movie actually start off well with the family meet the local after hit a deer . it look like be a modern day deliverance but then for the next 45 minute and ( well over half the film ) and nothing happen and the family pot about their holiday home which be all very nice and dandy but not the slight bit entertain . it be obvious the local would be involve in some way at some stage but essendon clearly have no idea how to build suspense in a movie . finally and when something do happen and it not even clear how the father be shoot and how he die and ( the nurse say his liver be only graze ) and and all the time this wendigo spirit apparently track down the apparent shooter in a very clumsy way with 3rd grade special effect . the film be call wendigo but no attempt be make to explain it in any clear way and the film end all muddle and leave you very unsatisfied and i would have bail out with 15 minute to go but i want to see if this movie could redeem itself . it do not .