Wendigo is a 2001 American psychological horror film written and directed Larry Fessenden and starring Patricia Clarkson, Jake Weber, and Erik Per Sullivan. The film centers around a photographer and his family who, during a wintery weekend in upstate New York, experience the presence of a dark force in a cabin while being stalked by a local hunter after they accidentally hit a deer on the road. Meanwhile, George's son, Miles, starts having vivid hallucinations of the legendary Wendigo, who he believes to be responsible for the dark forces.