Here’s a trailer for a bonkers sci-fi comedy movie titled The Hyperborean, and the story revolves around a laster-blasting ice mummy!

In the film, “A whiskey magnate summons his contentious family to sample his legacy product: casks of Scotch aged 170 years, recovered from a ghost ship in the Canadian Arctic. From beyond the land of the ice and snow comes… The Hyperborean!

“When a seasoned crisis manager (Justin Bott) injects himself directly 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.”

I had a chance to see this film while I was at the FilmQuest Film Festival this year, and it was a lot of fun!

I said in my review: “This fantastical movie plays with some wildly bizarre and ambitious concepts, but most importantly, it has heart, especially when it comes to the family dynamic.

“The movie is filled with colorful weird characters and you can tell the filmmaking team had fun developing those characters and this story. One of the things that I liked most about the movie is the lore that it builds and explores with the Hyperborean.”

The movie comes from director Jesse Thomas Cook, who shared in a statement: “After 13 horror movies and having tackled zombies, creature features, cults, haunted houses, et cetera., one of the remaining subgenres I had yet to explore was the nearly forgotten mummy film.

“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!”

The movie stars Liv Collins, Justin Bott, Tony Burgess, Jonathan Craig, Ry Barrett, Jess Vano, Michael Masurkevitch, and Marcia Alderson.

The Hyperborean will be released direct-to-VOD on July 19th, 2024.