PYP2025 Day 21: She Blinded me with Science (Fiction) 🧬 

Watched remotely w/@cleansteve, who has a weird sixth sense for being able to identify when a movie is Canadian. 

This is my Knives Out. And, it even has some Contact and planet-side Star Trek mission vibes sprinkled in to boot (that’s not a Canada joke, I promise). A whisky baron and his fam come into contact with a drunk alien mummy with laser eyes and nobody will be the same. The film focuses on family members being interviewed after a tragedy, with flashbacks to the fateful night. 

This was a gd delight - weird, funny, engaging, good lore, surprisingly heartwarming, and all on a shoestring budget from the looks of it. Only 350 watches on here; it’s on Tubi, you should give it a try!

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I really enjoyed the quirky characters. They are all funny caricatures of obnoxious self entitlement. The plot is their recount of the fantastic events that lead to their father’s death, and I found it all very entertaining. 

It’s a backyard sci-fi comedy that got me to Wikipedia what a Hyperborean really is.

He was sucked up into the sky and he popped.
Like a firecracker.

...

IT'S A LASER BLASTING ICE-MUMMY FOR FUCKS SAKES!!

A whiskey magnate discovers and loots whiskey barrels from a 170 year old sunken ship in the arctic and invites his entire family of pretentious idiots to their vacation compound to pitch the launch of his last reserve whiskey project.

Shit gets weird as you can see from the quotes above.

Ⲱⲉίꞅձ 𐆃ⲁɭⲉ⟆
Dᴇᴀᴛʜ ʙʏ Wɪᴇʀᴅ Oʙᴊᴇᴄᴛ

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Obnoxious YBN asshats that did not keep me engaged enough to not go grab my computer and download some Aldous Harding. Hard drive crashed last year and I never got her vinyl.

Do you think in some timeline somewhere the laser ice blasting mummy is a stand up guy

Whiskey for my men and beer for my mummies

Stop me if you've heard this one before. A whiskey magnate, his buffoon sons, and his ailing daughter accidentally release a drunk "Ice Mummy" that shoots lasers from a liquor cask found in a centuries-old shipwreck.

Full Review: www.ign.com/articles/the-hyperborean-review

Now that was AWESOME! Just some batshit crazy cosmic horror done right! I loved it! Great story, great characters, wonderful and thoughtful writing and some artfully crafted makeup and effects. It is the whole package. Very entertaining and the concept was brilliant. It has the perfect amount of mystery with equal parts of weird and wholesome. I went in not expecting too much and it blew me away. I literally have nothing bad to say. The story and concept just works so well and it was executed perfectly. It all pieced together so well. One of the best cosmic horrors since Color Out of Space IMO. I enjoyed it immensely. The synopsis is amazing but the film is way better. I hope you like it as much as I did.

Thought this was going to be much more 1982's "Time Walker" rather than a dysfunctional group of hipsters who happen to resurrect an arctic laser mummy. This is probably the better movie and the last act really saved it, but I think I'd still take James Karen and his laser mummy in a fight if I was a betting man.

What a weird and twisted movie with quirky characters in this. All wrapped within a mysterious liquor discovered and a family dealing with more than just their issues among themselves.

This indie sci fi horror and comedy might not hit everyone the right way but this will have a certain taste that some viewers will keep sipping on until we reach the bottom of the barrel.