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Wendigo Review

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Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 4.0
    63

    out of 100

    Metascore®
    Generally favorable reviews
    based on a weighted average of all
    critic review scores.

  • 50

    out of 100

    Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

    If you think it all adds up to a bald-faced rip off of ''The Shining,'' you'd be right, with a crucial difference: Wendigo trades the puffed-up metaphysics of middle-class murder for the no-budget spectacle of...an incredibly fake-looking monster deer.

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  • 50

    out of 100

    Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

    Fessenden cooks up a likably offbeat horror movie. But somehow, it never jells, never really scares us.

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  • 63

    out of 100

    Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

    The ending doesn't work, as I've said, but most of the movie works so well I'm almost recommending it, anyway -- maybe not to everybody, but certainly to people with a curiosity about how a movie can go very right, and then step wrong.

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  • 80

    out of 100

    The New York Times Dave Kehr

    For those in search of something different, Wendigo is a genuinely bone-chilling tale.

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  • 80

    out of 100

    Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

    Though Wendigo has weak spots, including an ending that is not as satisfying as it might be, the film remains memorable despite its flaws. This is a properly spooky film about the power of spirits to influence us whether we believe in them or not.

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  • 90

    out of 100

    Variety Scott Foundas

    A mostly superb bit of modern horror from the writer-director-editor previously responsible for the Frankenstein story "No Telling" and the urban vampire pic "Habit."

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