The Hyperborean is a Canadian comedy horror science fiction film, directed by Jesse Thomas Cook and released in 2023.[1] The film centres on the wealthy owner of a whisky distillery company who summons his family to help recover a case of whisky that the company lost over 100 years ago when the ship foundered in the Canadian Arctic, but unwittingly unleash an ice mummy because a dead sailor's body was preserved in one of the whisky barrels.[2]
The cast includes Liv Collins, Tony Burgess, Jessica Vano, Ry Barrett, Jonathan Craig, Marcia Alderson, Justin Bott, Greg Collins, Justin Darmanin and Steve Kasan.
It was the fourth feature film produced by the Collingwood Film Company, an independent production studio established in 2018 by Cook and Collins,[2] It premiered in October 2023 at the Forest City Film Festival,[3] where Cook and co-producer Samuel Scott also won the Pitch This competition for their future screenplay Turn It Up.[4]
Katie Ballantyne, Jonathan Craig and Karlee Morse received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Makeup at the 12th Canadian Screen Awards in 2024.[5]
^Andrew Mack, "THE HYPERBOREAN Trailer Exclusive: Canadian Ice Mummy Movie, Sci-fi/Comedy/Horror From The CULT HERO Team". Screen Anarchy, October 5, 2023.
^ abJohn Edwards, "Ghost ships, whisky and aliens: Collingwood Film Company set to showcase its latest flick, ‘The Hyperborean’". Collingwood Connection, February 22, 2024.
^Scott Stephenson, "Clinton-raised Samuel Scott talks horror movies, production work". Clinton Citizen, November 30, 2023.
^Beatriz Baleeiro, "Attendance rebounds as Forest City Film Festival wraps eighth season". London Free Press, October 24, 2023.
^"BlackBerry Leads CSA Nominations". Northern Stars, March 6, 2024.
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into theHyperborean underworld and was confronted by the supervillain the Black Flame, who had gathered a vast army of frogs and Hyperboreans to usher...
are also identified as Hyperboreans. In attempting to raise the spiritual development of the earthbound races, theHyperborean divyas (a Sanskrit term...
alternatively theHyperborean craton, in reference to thehyperboreans in Greek mythology. Nikolay Shatsky (Shatsky 1935) was the first to assume that the crust...
Ashton Smith and is part of his Hyperborean cycle. Tsathoggua/Zhothaqquah is described as an Old One, a god-like being from the pantheon. He was introduced...
The Amerasia Basin, or Amerasian Basin, is one of the two major basins from which the Arctic Ocean can be subdivided (the other one being the Eurasian...
available under the name "SparBot" in the poker training program "Poker Academy". The series of Hyperborean programs have competed in the Annual Computer...
distancing. A daughter of Boreas, and one of theHyperborean maidens, who were believed to have introduced the worship of Artemis in Delos. (Callim. Hymn...
migrate elsewhere. Others fled the path of Hyperborean expansion before ever engaging them in war. Meanwhile, the apemen of the Arctic Circle emerged as a...
exhibited at the Olympic Games and showed to Abaris theHyperborean as proof of his identity as the "Hyperborean Apollo". Supposedly, the priest of Apollo...
Apollo, greeting the sun rising in the east. Hecateus Abderitas refers to Apollo's island from the region of theHyperboreans, in the Okeanos. It was on...
religion and mythology, Artemis (/ˈɑːrtɪmɪs/; Greek: Ἄρτεμις) is the goddess of the hunt, the wilderness, wild animals, nature, vegetation, childbirth, care...
mountains behind the Pechora and identified them with the Riphean Mountains and Hyperboreans of ancient authors, did the existence of the Ural, or at least...
the opening and closing ceremonies. American filmmaker Sean Baker won the Palme d'Or, the festival's top prize, for the comedy-drama film Anora. The official...
for the river. Ptolemy believed the Don and the Volga shared the same upper branch, which flowed from theHyperborean Mountains. Between 2nd and 5th centuries...
sometimes located the home of the legendary Hyperboreans in the inaccessible regions north of the Ripheans. While the Riphean Mountains appear only in...
for the origin of life on Earth in theHyperborean cycle written by Clark Ashton Smith. At the Mountains of Madness includes a detailed account of the circumstances...
shamanism, the Amanita and the 'pressed juice' of Soma – but better, since no longer unpredictable and wild, the way it was found among theHyperboreans: as...
tells the story of a lost civilization in the Polar Region or the Northern Atlantic, from which the Aryan, Hyperborean or Nordic races descended. The Frisian...
wrote about Bladud, and put forth the fanciful suggestion that he should be identified with Abaris theHyperborean, the healer known from Classical Greek...
ISBN 978-0415939263. Dickason, David G. (1991). "The Nineteenth-Century Indo-American Ice Trade: An Hyperborean Epic". Modern Asian Studies. 25 (1): 53–89....
Apollo. Having witnessed theHyperboreans sacrifice donkeys to Apollo, he attempted to do the same, only to be prohibited by the god himself under pain...
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