'Wendigo' tale of horror seen from child's viewpoint; Evil spirit sours family's vacation.(WASHINGTON WEEKEND)(PHANTOM OF THE MOVIES)

Byline: THE WASHINGTON TIMES

While not quite as powerful as his striking 1997 urban vampire fable "Habit" (A-Pix), writer-director Larry Fessenden's Wendigo, new from Artisan Home Entertainment, rates as a solid, unsettling and, like "Habit," ultimately poignant indie chiller. It's our ...

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"Wendigo" (priced for rental VHS, also available on DVD) follows an urban family unit - frustrated commercial photographer George (Jake Weber), psychiatrist Kim (Patricia Clarkson) and young son Miles (Erik Per Sullivan, of "Malcolm in the Middle" fame) - into upstate New York's bleakly eerie wintry woods. Their intended long-weekend vacation turns ...

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