"Supernatural"
Wendigo (2005)

Director:

David Nutter

Writers:

Eric Kripke (creator)
Eric Kripke (teleplay) ...

TV Series:

"Supernatural" (2005)

Original Air Date:

20 September 2005 (Season 1, Episode 2)

Genre:

Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

Following their father's coordinates, Sam and Dean end up at Blackwater Ridge where a group of campers are missing...

Plot Keywords:

Woods | Wendigo | Nightmare | Brother Brother Relationship | Flare Gun

Cast

Jared Padalecki	...	Sam Winchester
Jensen Ackles	...	Dean Winchester
Callum Keith Rennie	...	Roy
Gina Holden	...	Haley Collins
Alden Ehrenreich	...	Ben Collins
Donnelly Rhodes	...	Shaw
Timothy Webber	...	Ranger Wilkinson
Graham Wardle	...	Tommy Collins
Cory Monteith	...	Gary
Wren Roberts	...	Brad (as Wren Robertz)
Tamara Lashley	...	Paramedic
Roy Campsall	...	Wendigo
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Rhys Williams	...	Local

Country:

USA

Color:

Color

Certification:

Netherlands:12 (cut TV version)

Company:

Kripke Enterprises

Trivia:

The book one of the boys is reading in the beginning, was reading "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" by Joseph Campbell. In this book Campbell's unique perspectives examine the world's complex and interwoven mythology, folklore and religion, providing an understanding of the essence and genesis of humanness.

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Dean tells the forest ranger that he and Sam are students from "UC Boulder." It should have been "CU Boulder."

Quotes:

Sam Winchester: I don't know about you, but i am ready to kill this evil son of a bitch.
Dean Winchester: [lightly mortified at Sam's choice of words] Well, hell you know I'm in!

Soundtrack:

Down South Jukin'

Brothers against Evil: Wendigo

Episode two of "Supernatural" and the ice have definitely been broken. There were the pilot – understandably - focused on the introduction of the two main character and didn't really dig into the mystery of the Lady in White, episode two fully centers on the brothers' battle against yet another type of supernatural evil; the Wendigo. The instructions in their father's journal lead Sam and Dean to Lost Creek, Colorado, where several people went missing over the past few weeks after hiking in the gigantic Blackwater forest. The authorities presume there's a wild grizzly bear on the loose, yet no bodies have yet been discovered and there appears to be an awkward history of missing person cases that repeats itself every 23 years. Sam and Dean team up with a beautiful girl who's looking for her vanished brother and together they face the horror of the Wendigo. What I love so much about this TV-series is how the script gives insightful descriptions of the types of evil the brothers deal with. Being a horror fan, I already encountered the term "Wendigo" in several movies, yet only in "Supernatural" they carefully explain it's an ancient Indian warrior that gained immortality and super strength through eating human flesh. "Wendigo" is a terrific episode! The atmosphere is very reminiscent to those typically old-fashioned backwoods-slashers of the early 80's, like "Just Before Dawn", "The Final Terror" and "Midnight". The Blackwater woods are sublimely portrayed as the inescapable territory of a monstrous predator and especially the underground liar – where the Wendigo saves his victims – looks genuinely uncanny. This episode features plenty of exciting action scenes and the usual amount of witty dialogs. Perhaps it's still too soon to compare this series with other thriller-highlights on television but, so far, I like it a whole lot better than "The X-Files" or "Millennium". The show also mildly reminds me of the prematurely canceled occult series "Brimstone".