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  • 2022
  • RLJE Films
  • 1 h 26 m
  • 2022
  • RLJE Films
  • 1 h 26 m

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 whole l...

Directed By: Nyla Innuksuk

Written By: Ryan Cavan, Nyla Innuksuk

  • 2022
  • RLJE Films
  • 1 h 26 m
  • 2022
  • RLJE Films
  • 1 h 26 m

Slash/Back

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
67
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 5 User Ratings
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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 whole l...

Directed By: Nyla Innuksuk

Written By: Ryan Cavan, Nyla Innuksuk

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
67
82% Positive
9 Reviews
18% Mixed
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews
67
82% Positive
9 Reviews
18% Mixed
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews

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95
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.
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70
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.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
70
Mar 18, 2022
Innuksuk approaches everything with such a generous, supportive spirit, it seems churlish to focus on shortcomings in a film with so much personality. ... "Slash/Back" seems bound to find a cult following, but it will mean the most to Inuit audiences, for whom standing up to invaders is more than just another genre-movie cliché.
By Peter Debruge FULL REVIEW
68
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.
By Barry Hertz FULL REVIEW
67
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.
By Thom Ernst FULL REVIEW
63
Oct 21, 2022
Slash/Back gains its greater power with its entertaining narrative of these Inuit heroes warding off invaders, trying to save their home while earning a deeper pride in that very place and its people. It’s sincerely sweet and entertaining, and its impact is felt even more as the black alien blood starts to fly.
By Nick Allen FULL REVIEW
50
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.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Good Question Media, Mixtape VR, Red Marrow Media, Scythia Films, Stellar Citizens
Release Date Oct 21, 2022
Duration 1 h 26 m
Genres
Tagline These aliens messed with wrong girls.
Website https://www.instagram.com/slashbackfilm/
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Awards

The CAFTCAD awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
SXSW Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Directors Guild of Canada
• 1 Nomination

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