Nothing about a sleepy arctic hamlet suggests it will end up as the front line of an invasion, which is exactly the joke Slash/Back builds its horror-comedy around: teenage boredom colliding head-on with something that crawled out of the tundra.
What is Slash/Back about?
Maika spends her summer the way most kids in her hamlet do, killing time, needling her friends, dreaming about anywhere else, until the ground itself starts acting wrong. Something has slipped beneath the permafrost near the shoreline and is wearing the bodies of neighbors like ill-fitting coats, and Maika's group of friends is the only crew paying close enough attention to notice before it is too late. With no adults left to trust and no cavalry on the way, the teens turn whatever is lying around a small Inuit community, harpoons, four-wheelers, sheer stubbornness, into an improvised defense against a threat that keeps changing shape.
About the cast
Tasiana Shirley leads the young cast as Maika, backed by Alexis Wolfe, Nalajoss Ellsworth, and Chelsea Prusky as the friend group forced into unlikely heroism, with Frankie Vincent-Wolfe rounding out their circle. Shaun Benson, Kristian Bruun, and Melissa Hood appear among the adults whose grip on the situation slips fastest.
Context & significance
Directed by Nyla Innuksuk, this 2022 Canadian film is set and shot in an Inuit community in Nunavut, and its cast of young non-professional actors gives the alien-invasion premise a grounded, specific texture rarely seen in the genre. Rather than treating the arctic setting as a blank backdrop, the film leans into the specifics of the hamlet, its geography, its teenage social order, its total remoteness from outside help, and lets those details drive both the comedy and the survival plot. The result plays like a coming-of-age story that happens to have body-snatching creatures wandering through it.
Watching Slash/Back on Ktime
Slash/Back is available on K-Time with a free account login, with no separate signup step required. The film includes Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so Farsi-speaking audiences can watch it fully dubbed or with the original English audio and Farsi text, making this offbeat Canadian creature feature easy to follow for Persian-speaking households.