Nyla Innuksuk's Slash/Back pits a group of kids against alien invaders in a remote Inuit village and delivers a unique, rewarding adventure along the way.
Audiences love stories that pit plucky kids against horrible monsters — whether it’s aliens, zombies, ghosts, or various other supernatural threats. There’s so much love for these stories, in fact, that it takes a special kind of film to stand out in the crowded “kids vs. monsters” genre these days.
Nearly the entire cast of Slash/Back was recruited from Pangnirtung and the surrounding regions of Nunavut, and although their lack of acting experience is evident in the film, Innuksuk smartly weaves that quality into the energy of the film. The main characters act and talk like the kids they are, frequently lamenting the boredom of life in Pang and discussing their respective local crushes, usually while staring at a phone screen.
Like Attack the Block, Innuksuk’s film puts the fate of a community that doesn’t seem outwardly united into the hands of the most unlikely of saviors. And much like the adolescent gang in Cornish’s film does, the kids of Slash/Back could not seemingly care less about their little village.
Unfortunately, that gritty, ’80s horror aesthetic of the aliens takes a bit of a hit when the film relies too heavily on digital effects, as those elements often feel a bit too polished and sharp for the world around them. With Slash/Back, audiences willing to look past the film’s no-frills approach to filmmaking will find a rich, wonderfully textured story rooted in the place and people of its setting. They’ll also find an amazingly fun, funny — and yes, genuinely creepy at times — horror film about plucky kids battling terrifying alien tentacle monsters from space.
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