SLASH/BACK – directed by Nyla Innuksuk – (limited spoilers)

In the town of Pangnirtung on Baffin Island, on the east side of Cumberland Sound, four girls, Maike (Tasiana Shirley), Uki (Nalajoss Ellsworth), Jesse (Alexis Wolfe), and Leena (Chelsea Prusky), decide to take a boat up the coast to some (presently deserted) hunting cabins. Once there, they exchange scary stories and Uki offers a tale she claims is true. “You know the Kattuk boy that went missing last spring?,” she asks. “Well Brenda was talking to Billy Mike, and Billy Mike was talking to a fisherman from Iqualuit, and he said that he saw the boy playing by the water. And then like a fog rolls in, and out comes a gray head with long black hair…snatches the boy and drags him into the water.” She then suggests the boy might have been taken by the Qualupalik. Of the four, Uki is the only one who enjoys living in Pangnirtung. The others wish they were elsewhere. They are bored with the town, and regard legends such as the Qualupalik as “silly Inuk shit”. Continue reading →