Slash/Back

Name: Slash/Back
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Horror
Released: October 21, 2022
Duration: 86 min
Rating: 67
Cast: Alexis Wolfe, Amélie Albert-LeBlanc, Chelsea Prusky, Frankie Vincent-Wolfe, Janice Alivaktuk

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RLJE Films | Release Date: October 21, 2022 | Not Rated

Starring: Alexis Wolfe, Amélie Albert-LeBlanc, Chelsea Prusky, Frankie Vincent-Wolfe, Janice Alivaktuk, Kristian Bruun, Lorna Lawson, Madeleine Qumuatuq, Melissa Hood, Nalajoss Ellsworth, Natar Ungalaaq, Paulette Metuq, Rory Anawak, Shaun Benson, Tasiana Shirley

Summary: The sleepy village of Pangnirtung wakes up to a typical summer day. No School, no cool boys (well... except one), and 24-hour sunlight. But for Maika and her ragtag friends, the usual summer is suddenly not in the cards when they discover an alien invasion threatening their hometown. These teenagers have been underestimated their wholeThe sleepy village of Pangnirtung wakes up to a typical summer day. No School, no cool boys (well... except one), and 24-hour sunlight. But for Maika and her ragtag friends, the usual summer is suddenly not in the cards when they discover an alien invasion threatening their hometown. These teenagers have been underestimated their whole lives but, using makeshift weapons and their horror movie knowledge, they show the aliens you don't mess with the girls from Pang.… Expand

Director: Nyla Innuksuk

Genre(s): Adventure, Sci-Fi, Horror

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 86 min

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Michael Talbot-Haynes

Mar 18, 2022

The film is not just important but also entertaining to the core. Her first feature shows Innuksuk is already a master filmmaker who has made a kick-a*s genre picture with dead-on horror instincts. Read full review

The Playlist R. Colin Tait

Apr 13, 2022

By showing mainstream audiences what the everyday lives of these young women looks like, and by showing the metaphorical and political significance of reversing the racist tropes that dominate popular culture, the film makes a substantial contribution to the ongoing discussion of North American history generally, and more importantly, who gets to tell their own stories. Read full review

Noel Murray

Oct 21, 2022

It’s the moments of more personal observation — about how the girls relate to each other, to their elders, and to a culture that’s a sometimes uneasy blend of Canadian and Indigenous — that gives this picture its spark of originality. There are lots of genre movies like this. None are this one. Read full review

Barry Hertz

Jun 24, 2022

After all its blood is spilled – on perfectly white sheets of ice and snow, of course – Slash/Back still announces the arrival of a major talent in Innuksuk. Here is hoping that she gets to kill bigger and better Canadian actors for many years to come. Read full review

Matthew Monagle

Oct 19, 2022

From a soundtrack of First Nations artists – including a score by the award-winning electronic group the Halluci Nation (fka A Tribe Called Red) – and stunning landscape cinematography by Guy Godfree, there are so many dynamic elements in Slash/Back that cause the film to punch way above its weight class. Read full review

Thom Ernst

Jun 23, 2022

Despite its horror-film veneer, Innuksuk wraps the viewer in a warm blanket of nostalgia whenever the film threatens to chill. But Slash/Back has enough creep factor to settle any argument purporting that Stranger Things only happen in the cozy climates of Midwest America. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Nov 3, 2022

You might be rooting for it at the end as fervently as you were at the promising beginning. But by then, it’s already disappointed, with far too many punchless punchlines for its own good. Read full review

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