Wendigos

Who thinks they are fascinating monsters?
They are pretty cool creatures.

And besides turning people into cannibals, do they also possess dead corpses buried in Indian burial grounds?
Well, in Pet Cemetery they apparently can.

Have you seen the movie The Last Winter? It's a pretty descent film, and about the only other good wendigo movie that I know of.

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind ~H.P. Lovecraft

There's a movie Wendigo, very cheesy, C movie at best but it explores the myth a little and is fairly entertaining. It has the youngest kid from Malcolm in the Middle in it, it came here early 2000's.
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I watched Wendigo some years ago, eager to see this legend brought to life and of course loving little Dewey from MITM...but somehow it just didn't do much for me. I think I had unrealistic expectations going into it, which distracted me from the story they were telling. I was expecting some kind of monster movie/horror film, but it really wasn't. It struck me as more of a psychological "the monster lives inside of all of us" kind of story. Maybe I should come back and watch it again, now that I know not to expect a monster movie or horror flick.

The acting was pretty good, so I won't mind giving it a second watch.

Oddly enough, I have seen Pet Semetary (sp?) and read the book too, but I never made the connection to the Wendigo legend. Do they talk about it directly in the movie and I just didn't register it?

Never made that connection of Semetary and Wendigos either. Only connection I really see is each involves North American Indian legends.

Wendigo was cheesy, but I went in looking for USA up all night feel so wasn't as let down.

I guess the mass demographic isn't as informed on Wednigos so there is less demand for it to hit the big screen, but I'd love to see it done well.

Also would love to find a decent read on Wendigos if anyone has any top picks.
Thanks

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A good 'cannibal-wendigo' flick is, of course, Ravenous (1999) with Guy Pierce and Robert Carlyle. I thought they mentioned windegos in pet semetary (cemetery?) also. Maybe it was in the sequel or something. I always get that one confused with the Tommyknockers which were just a bunch of vampire aliens or whatever

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Although the creature was missing from the film adaptation of Pet Sematary and it's sequel, in the novel it said that a Wendigo soured the ground and cursed it as whatever dead body is there will be resurrected as a demon. I believe that thing was the one who possessed Timmy Batterman, Gage, Rachel and Gus (in the film sequel) and the bodies become like deadites sort of speak while some other humans buried at the same time and animals are possessed by other spirits/demons as well.

"Let off some steam bennet"-Commando.

They are definitely fascinating legend, and one of its best representations is a truly fun episode of the cancelled Fear Itself television horror anthology series titled "Skin And Bones" directed by Larry Fessenden.

Skin And Bones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIpLjjKoa0s



Doctor Doom Tribute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF-dnpDT2NY

GHOSTKEEPER is a low budget Canadian movie about a Wendigo but they ran out of money during the shoot and couldn't film everything they wanted to - www.imdb.com/title/tt0128232/