This was frustratingly unwatchable. A lot of nothing happens, and the little that does, is nonsense. There's just too much boring filler with the little substance that is convoluted to begin with. Trying to mix sci-fi with an aboriginal story, then unable to chose the primary focus for the plot, just drags out the normally comfortable 86 min runtime. The slow pacing with the dragged out and unnecessary scenes makes this film boring and impatient to watch. Add the horrible and stale dry performances, and this feels like an elementary school drama class play. I get that the young actors are inexperienced, but any decent capable director can direct his cast in between scenes, whatever their age or experience level, and Innuksuk failed to do that. The story was also riddled with plot and technical issues. Even as a low budget indie film, this was just a boring disastrous attempt at anything worthwhile to be considered entertaining. This may have worked better as a short film with more experienced filmmakers. It's a generous 3/10 from me, all for the beautiful and scenic landscapes, and some hilarious gore effects.
Slash/Back
2022
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi
Slash/Back
2022
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi
Plot summary
When Maika and her ragtag friends discover an alien invasion in their tiny arctic hamlet, it's up to them to save the day. Utilizing their makeshift weapons and horror movie knowledge, the aliens realize you don't mess with girls from Pang.
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Did the critics watch the same movie we did?
a "cut" above average...
Kinder gentler version of Stranger Things with the locale (the Canadian north) stealing the show as the uncredited lead. Canada has a history of introducing talented first-time creators (think Croenberg, Reitman) and Nyla Innuksuk maintains the tradition.
Well done, simple, but very enjoyable Creature Feature, with a nice native setting...
I felt that the movie was rather well done. I'm surprised at some of the negative comments here about the story and acting. The acting, especially since we are basically talking about an all teen cast, were quite good. Very believable and genuine, not at all like many of the young people (or not so young) in many US Horror films today where they come across as very self-aware with an artificial 'Hipness'. Not here at all. We can really place ourselves squarely in the place of these young girls and what they have to deal with.
The settings and photography are beautiful of course. And, I thought it was also well done how they integrated how the young people feel growing up in an area like that. It was amusing too that right in the middle of dealing with these dangerous aliens, arguments would erupt about who likes who and other such things, just exactly how you would imagine it would occur among girls of that age. It adds a nice, enjoyable genuineness to the performances.
I thought the monsters were great. They did an excellent job creating some pretty damn creepy aliens that I felt were pretty effective. So, you basically had a nice, Retro young people's Horror film with the acting, dialog, and interactions giving it an enjoyable realistic feel. FAR from the contrivances of many of the young people as portrayed in a lot of today's 'Modern Horror'
I think the movie was quite good and entertaining. It was well made and acted and accomplished exactly what it was supposed to do. One needs to keep in mind the context of this film, it's fairly basic story, and it's genuine native setting, in order to appreciate it. If you are looking for all out in your face action and extreme violence like many Horror movies today, then you likely would be disappointed like some of the reviewers here.
Again, I know I've mentioned this numerous times in my reviews here, but I REALLY wish people would limit their reviews to the quality of the filmmaking and how well it is done. Rather than, 'Oh I thought it was boring and stupid' and give it a low rating. If it isn't your particular type of Horror movie, then fine, but I strongly feel a person honestly shouldn't come here and give a film a low rating just because THEY didn't like it. There are a lot of films that I really don't like, but I would admit that they are done well and the people who like those particular types of Horror movies will appreciate them. So, I don't come here and give those kinds of films low ratings just because they didn't happen to be the type of movie that I liked. That doesn't truly help those who may like this type of film and want to know if it is a good one.
Anyway, sorry to go on...