( spoiler galore ) this be an absolutely awful film . first of all it have that guy from medium . i guess he make a career out of play super dot dad . it be ok the first time he try to scare his son by pretend to be a monster . but then 10 minute later they cloyingly do it again . and so it go and this film move in excruciate real time . at one point and i start image it be day later and until i be remind that the story line be only at the next day . in the early afternoon still . i be not really sure who this couple be suppose to be in real life . first of all they be present a sort of a manhattan yuppie couple who grow up and have a kid . but they drive an old blue volvo . those type stop drive volvos decade ago . today they drive priuses . but in 2002 and i be sure they still weren not drive volvos . ok and then there wendigo . a mysterious indian man give the boy a little magic wendigo statue and tell him of it powerful magic . c amon . be we still do ancient indian mystery . just to drive it home and they pan across every indian statue in their tourist trap upstate new york town . american indian be portray in a manner not see for decade in this film . oh and and about wendigo . he be not actually the cause of the horror . he doesn not kill the kid dad which be the most horrible thing in the film . he just kill by an ordinary hick with a grudge and a high power rifle . the wendigo only come out late in the film to avenge the guy who kill the dad . oh and but wait and it seem earlier that wendigo be kind of mad at the dad and maybe because he kill a deer . so then wendigo must have be happy that the dad be kill . but . and so it go . insulting and boring and nonsensical . there be no reason to watch this film at all .