By MICHAEL GINGOLD
It sounds like a STAR WARS series, but it’s actually a Canadian chiller featuring an “ice mummy” and the star of IN A VIOLENT NATURE.
Freestyle Digital Releasing has announced its acquisition of THE HYPERBOREAN, and will be releasing it on all U.S. digital HD Internet, cable and satellite platforms, as well as on DVD, on July 19. Written by PONTYPOOL author/scriptwriter Tony Burgess (who also has an acting role) and directed by Jesse Thomas Cook (MONSTER BRAWL, SEPTIC MAN), it stars VIOLENT NATURE’s Ry Barrett along with Liv Collins, Justin Bott, Jonathan Craig, Jess Vano, Michael Masurkevitch, Marcia Alderson, Steve Kasan, Justin Darmanin and Greg Collins. The synopsis: “When a seasoned crisis manager injects himself into a dysfunctional family, and their faltering whiskey company, he must navigate through a public relations nightmare involving a triple homicide, an Arctic ice mummy, and a batch of intergalactic moonshine.”
“After 13 horror movies and having tackled zombies, creature features, cults, haunted houses, etc., one of the remaining subgenres I had yet to explore was the nearly forgotten mummy film,” says Cook. “I was always fascinated by the disastrous 1845 Franklin Expedition, and the discovery of its preserved ice mummies. We based the creature design in THE HYPERBOREAN on one of the Franklin mummies buried at Beechey Island. This is our very Canadian ice mummy movie, and we are thrilled to be working with Freestyle on the U.S. release!”
