Slash/Back (2022) poster
2022 · sci-fi · action · thriller · horror

Slash/Back

Directed by Nyla Innuksuk1h 27m2022
ElsewhereIMDb5.72kRT90%Metacritic67
  • kinetic
  • inventive
Movie DNA

Neutral, breathless, measured sci-fi / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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In a remote Arctic community, a group of Inuit girls fight off an alien invasion, all while trying to make it to the coolest party in town.

Our read · Slash/Back (2022) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive sci-fi · action · thriller entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want fun teen girls fighting aliens in a remote Arctic Inuit community.

ends triumphantyou’ll be fine aftergrabs you earlygrips by minute 12attention 3/5breezes bysubtitles: partial
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violencejump scares

Skip it tonightSkip if low-budget creature effects or teen sci-fi horror isn't your thing.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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