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The Hyperborean

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The Hyperborean
Directed byJesse Thomas Cook
Written byTony Burgess
Produced byJesse Thomas Cook
Samuel Scott
StarringLiv Collins
Tony Burgess
Jessica Vano
Ry Barrett
CinematographyKenny MacLaughlin
Edited byMike Gallant
Music byAdrian Ellis
Production
company
Collingwood Film Co.
Release date
Running time
94 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish

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]

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