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The Windigo is a decent flick. The premise is interesting in that a modern day family visits an older native woman who is very traditional in the things she believes in. Interestingly enough though, the titular windigo is intentionally summoned by one of the protagonists to protect them against some meth heads they come across the lab of. The best part of this film has to be the monster design; it's on the screen a lot and the effects are all practical. It looks pretty darn good. There's one moment they do throw in something that seems to have been created with Powerpoint though... no clue why they did that, was no necessary. It's not particularly inventive or anything, but I found it to be a likable watch.

The Turned us Into Killers... different story though. Don't let someone fool you into watching this horseshit. Total garbage, which is a lot coming from me since I ranked very few films as F's year and I watched well over 100 of these. This is definitely going into the F category for 2024 though; just a steaming heap of garbage. It starts out in a way that makes you believe maybe it won't be, but by the mid-point there will be no mistaking that foul aroma. Bad acting, atrocious writing and I mean some of the worst ideas ever. This just stopped being believable as a film any adult could have written. The story is so disconnected to itself and the characters therein; characters are just referenced by name and for whatever reason we are expected to just know. It's like someone's ideas just manifested themselves on screen, but half the information is just contained in their own brains and never relayed to the screen. Remember I said Michael Berryman appears in this picture? I know him best from a role he played on the X-Files; he has a condition he was born with that makes him great in horror films and the like. Most probably know him from the original The Hills Have Eyes as Pluto; he's on the box art. Well guess what they did... he appears in a photograph and that is fucking it!. They even billed him over the top of actors with scenes of dialogue in the credits too (these were the two detectives though, who are awful, I have no idea who cast the female detective in this). There's one part where the detective utters the line, "And he's dead too!" ... right after the other detective just put down a picture of the guy she's talking about with a hole in his head. No shit, I thought this guy was just taking a nap. This was hot ass; I'm in shock of how they convinced all these at least somewhat well known people to be in this movie. Kane Hodder is in here too, as a character who appears only in brief flashbacks and is already dead.