A family from the city decide to spend a weekend away at a friend's country farmhouse. But a fluke accident sets off a chain of events that alters their lives forever and conjures up the ferocious spirit of the Wendigo.
Direction
Fessenden's DIY horror sensibility turns budget limits into claustrophobic poetry.
Cinematography
Snow becomes a character—beautiful, suffocating, hiding what watches back.
Director
Larry Fessenden
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Fessenden shot this in his actual upstate New York hometown, using local non-actors including real hunters. The deer hit in the opening? Completely improvised when they actually struck one on the road.
The film deliberately misuses Wendigo lore—Algonquin tradition describes a spirit of cannibalism and winter starvation, not a deer-monster. Fessenden admitted this creative liberty angered some Indigenous viewers while others appreciated the attempt at respectful engagement through Lloyd Oxendine's Elder role.
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