t's Christmas time in Minnesota, and what better way to spend quality time with friends than in a private cabin during the holidays? That was Elijah Graymore's plan when the young college student invited his closest friends to spend a week in a cabin he rented by the mysterious Lake Windigo on Star Island in the middle of Cass Lake. But when a vicious blizzard engulfs the island, and traps everyone inside the cabin, they no longer face just the cold of winter. Food is running low, and the shadow of madness begins to shatter Elijah's mind while something ancient stalks him from the darkness of the forest, and haunts him in his nightmares...