Summary
A group of Inuit teens do battle with aliens.
I thought this was a really quite fresh feeling horror film, both for exploring the mythology of a group of people that most of the world isn’t familiar with, and also for depicting aliens in a way that differs quite strongly from the little green men or humanoid figures we are so used to.
I really appreciated and liked the low-fi appeal of the monsters, I thought when the clearly dead animals were possessed and moving it was quite unsettling because in a sense you hadn’t, or certainly I hadn’t, seen something move like that before. I thought the skin suits later employed by the aliens were equally quite unnerving.
My one complaint of the film would be that it has a slow start, it feels like it is quite a while before we actually get into the alien business, and yes the film is setting up its world and characters in this time but it drags on.
Overall, a fun film that tries and mostly succeeds in doing something new.
4/5
Pros.
The look of the aliens both in animal and human form
The scares
Exploring Inuit mythology
The central teen cast are all likeable and do a good job for child actors
Cons.
A slow first act
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