if you like horror movie with lot of blood and gore and ton of jump scare moment and unrelenting and escalate scene of excruciate death and then look elsewhere . if you like quiet and moody and thoughtful horror which cast blood aside in favor of a genuine feeling of dread and then wendigo be for you . thoughtful and stress out george and his psychoanalyst wife kim and their young son mile be head out to the snowy countryside for a long weekend vacation away from the city . on the way up and george hit a stag with his car . the hunter who have be pursue the deer be not thrill when they find that george have end their chase . in particular and deranged hunter otis take it personally . he follow the family to their vacation home and make sure they see him . he spy on george and kim a they have sex . he fire through their window with his rifle when they aren not home and let them discover the ominous hole in their window and wall when they return . when kim take mile to the drugstore in town and mile be attract to a small sculpture in a display case and carve to resemble a man with the head of a stag . a native american man tell mile that this be the wendigo and a spirit of the wood who have a taste for flesh and be always hungry . mile take the figure home with him and already haunt by the death of the deer the day before . that afternoon and when he and his father go sledding and george be shot and mile pursue through the wood by a creature barely glimpse . or be he just in shock and and imagine the whole thing . hour later and george be rush to the hospital and mile and still clutch his statue and either faint and dream or go on a vision quest and in which the wendigo return . this time the angry and flesh eating god part tree and part stag and part man be hunt for otis and who have finally go over the edge . wendigo be a beautifully make film and almost totally silent but for the wind howl through the snow cover tree . okay and so the monster itself be kind of fakey look and but it a small flaw and more than make up for by the genuine feeling of tension and dread that creep through every frame of the film and and the eerie backdrop of the silent and snowy countryside . the performance be great and particularly by jake weber a the moody and thoughtful george and patricia clarkson a his sweet but no nonsense wife . they be a happy couple with their share of common problem and and it be the strength of their relationship and their love for each other that make this film powerful . watch this film be often like watch someone home video and so realistic be the performance . this movie be not for everyone . a lot of people may find themselves totally bore and wait for the hideous lovecraftian beast and bloody revenge that never come . we can never really be sure if the wendigo even exist and see a it be through the eye of a sensitive child and also and later and through the eye of a madman . this be more a psychological drama than a horror film and but it have more than enough creepy element in it to satisfy fan of subtle horror .